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From boatyard to museum: 3D laser scanning and digital modelling of the Qatar Museums watercraft collection, Doha, Qatar
(Wiley, 2018-05-16)This article presents the results of a project to 3D laser scan and digitally model 14 watercraft from the Qatar Museums collection, comprising a range of regional vessels: most had not been surveyed previously. The project ... -
Cobalt mineralisation in Cornwall - A new discovery at Porthtowan
(Ussher Society, 2018-05-16)Although cobalt mineralisation has been noted in Cornwall and Devon in the mining literature, there are limited details of its production and paragenesis; detailed mineral studies of cobalt are almost non-existent. This ... -
The Skaergaard trough layering: sedimentation in a convecting magma chamber
(Springer Verlag, 2018-04-25)The upper parts of the floor cumulates of the Skaergaard Intrusion, East Greenland, contain abundant features known as troughs. The troughs are gently plunging synformal structures comprising stacks of crescentic modally ... -
Sources of fluids and metals and evolution models of skarn deposits in the Qimantagh metallogenic belt: A case study from the Weibao deposit, East Kunlun Mountains, northern Tibetan Plateau.
(Elsevier, 2018-02-01)The Weibao Cu-Pb-Zn deposit is typical of skarn deposits in the Qimantagh metallogenic belt (QMB), EastKunlun Mountains, northern Tibetan Plateau. It comprises three ore blocks from west to east, known as Weixi,Main and ... -
Optimisation of a Multi-Gravity Separator with Novel Modifications for the Recovery of Ferberite
(MDPI, 2018-05-02)Tungsten is considered by the European Union as a critical raw material for future development due to its expected demand and scarcity of resource within Europe. It is therefore, critical to optimize European tungsten ... -
Geometallurgical study of a gravity recoverable gold orebody
(MDPI, 2018-04-29)Sheeted vein gold deposits are often characterised by multiple sub-parallel veins and free-milling coarse gold. Inherent mineralisation heterogeneity results in grade and process parameter variability, which increases ... -
Dissolved Mn(III) in water treatment works: Prevalence and significance
(Elsevier / IWA Publishing, 2018-04-17)Dissolved Mn(III) has been identified at all stages throughout a Water Treatment Works (WTW) receiving inflow from a peaty upland catchment in NE England. Ninety percent of the influent total manganese into the WTW is ... -
Introduction to redox-reactive minerals in natural systems and clean technologies
(European Mineralogical Union / Mineralogical Society of Great Britain & Ireland, 2017-01-01)Minerals are naturally occurring inorganic solids that make up the solid part of most solar terrestrial planets. Redox-active elements such as iron, manganese, titanium and sulfur, in these minerals allow them to engage ... -
Role of redox-reactive minerals in the reuse and remediation of mine wastes
(European Mineralogical Union / Mineralogical Society of Great Britain & Ireland, 2017-01-01)Mining, oil and gas and other extractive industries are vital and irreplaceable constituents of the modern global economy. The overall demand for the products of these industries rises inexorably with economic growth and ... -
Re-evaluating ambiguous age relationships in Archean cratons: implications for the origin of ultramafic-mafic complexes in the Lewisian Gneiss Complex
(Elsevier, 2018-04-20)Archean ultramafic-mafic complexes have been the focus of important and often contentious geological and geodynamic interpretations. However, their age relative to the other components of Archean cratons are often ... -
Sorption and fractionation of rare earth element ions onto nanoscale zerovalent iron particles
(Elsevier, 2018-03-27)The removal behaviour of rare earth element (REE), (Sc, Y, La-Lu), ions onto nanoscale zerovalent iron (nZVI) particles has been investigated. Batch sorption isotherms were conducted using REE-bearing acid mine drainage ... -
Oceanographic and climatic evolution of the southeastern subtropical Atlantic over the last 3.5 Ma
(Elsevier, 2018-04-09)The southeast Atlantic Ocean is dominated by two major oceanic systems: the Benguela Upwelling System, one of the world's most productive coastal upwelling cells and the Agulhas Leakage, which is important for transferring ... -
Optimising multivariate variographic analysis with information from multivariate process data modelling (partial least squares)
(AusIMM, 2017-05)Whereas a classical tool from the Theory of Sampling (TOS), variographic analysis, can address practical situations with multiple variables, its application has very often been limited to one variable at a time. ... -
Discerning mineral association in the near infrared region for ore sorting
(Elsevier, 2017-06-21)The preconcentration or early rejection of gangue minerals in mineral processing operations is investigated using sorting, based on interpretation of near infrared sensor data collected from ore particles. The success of ... -
Sea ice dynamics across the Mid-Pleistocene transition in the Bering Sea
(Springer Nature, 2018-03-05)Sea ice and associated feedback mechanisms play an important role for both long- and short-term climate change. Our ability to predict future sea ice extent, however, hinges on a greater understanding of past sea ice ... -
The Li isotope composition of marine biogenic carbonates: Patterns and Mechanisms
(Elsevier, 2018-03-17)Little is known about the fractionation of Li isotopes during formation of biogenic carbonates, which form the most promising geological archives of past seawater composition. Here we investigated the Li isotope composition ... -
Towards “Precision Mining” of wastewater: Selective recovery of Cu from acid mine drainage onto diatomite supported nanoscale zerovalent iron particles
(Elsevier, 2018-03-07)This paper introduces the concept of ‘Precision Mining’ of metals which can be defined as a process for the selective in situ uptake of a metal from a material or media, with subsequent retrieval and recovery of the target ... -
Contrasting mechanisms for crustal sulphur contamination of mafic magma: evidence from dyke and sill complexes from the British Palaeogene Igneous Province
(Geological Society, 2015-07-01)he addition of crustal sulphur to magma can trigger sulphide saturation, a process fundamental to the development of some Ni–Cu–PGE deposits. In the British Palaeogene Igneous Province, mafic and ultramafic magmas intrude ... -
Lamprophyric dykes in the Bushveld Complex: the lithospheric mantle and its metallogenic bearing on the Bushveld large igneous province
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-04-02)Abstract from the winter meeting of the Geological Society's Mineral Deposits Studies Group, held on 4–6 January 2016 at University College Dublin, Ireland -
Cu-Ni-PGE mineralisation at the Aurora Project and potential for a new PGE province in the Northern Bushveld Main Zone
(Elsevier, 2016-09-13)he Aurora Project is a Cu-Ni-PGE magmatic sulphide deposit in the northern limb of the Bushveld Complex of South Africa. Since 1992 mining in the northern limb has focussed on the Platreef deposit, located along the margin ...