This study also showed that heavy mineral concentrations closer to the modern coast have more varied compositions and thus more complex delivery pathways, with specific source regions poorly known. The presence of elevated K, representing immature minerals (Force et al., 1982), requires sediments that were recently eroded from igneous and/or ...
اقرأ المزيدThe study focuses on elevated levels of environmental radioactivity present in heavy mineral deposits located along a 120-km coastal section of Cox's Bazar on the eastern panhandle of Bangladesh. The deposits are situated in or at sand dunes located on the recent beach (foredune area) or in attached …
اقرأ المزيدThe concentration and recovery of valuable heavy minerals contained in dredged fine aggregates waste, located in Pyeongtaek South Korea, were investigated to develop a process that can recover and concentrate most of each heavy mineral. The raw material contains ilmenite, magnetite, monazite, and zircon.
اقرأ المزيدMap the probabilities for high concentrations of heavy-mineral sands in the southeastern U.S. The maps will identify favorable areas where industry could conduct exploration and development. Investigate the regional-scale geologic processes that formed the heavy-mineral sand deposits. Understanding these processes will help us interpret …
اقرأ المزيدPupienis, D., Buynevich, I. V. and Bitinas, A., 2011. Distribution and significance of heavy-mineral concentrations along the southeast Baltic Sea coast. Journal of Coastal Research, SI 64 (Proceedings of the 11th International Coastal Symposium), – . Szczecin, Poland, ISSN 0749-0208 Heavy mineral concentrations (HMCs) in coastal sands are …
اقرأ المزيدPanning sediment in the field with a traditional gold pan, followed by heavy liquid and magnetic separations in the laboratory, effectively removes common rock-forming minerals such as quartz and feldspar, allowing for isolation and concentration of heavy resistate minerals.
اقرأ المزيدThe high concentrations of minerals, especially that of ilmenite and monazite, are seen in locations MS3 to MS5. The concentration of heavy minerals in the samples varies from 13 to 84.4%. Table 3 Heavy mineral count percentages of the beach samples (MS1–MS5) Full size table. Table 4 Heavy mineral count percentages of the …
اقرأ المزيدHeavy mineral assemblages have proven to be especially useful for correlating sandstones that lack age-diagnostic fossils, especially nonmarine sequences (e.g., Allen and Mange-Rajetzky, 1992). The use of heavy minerals in correlation has important applications in hydrocarbon reservoir evaluation and production.
اقرأ المزيدThis report provides a descriptive model of heavy-mineral sands, which are sedimentary deposits of dense minerals that accumulate with sand, silt, and clay in coastal environments, locally forming economic concentrations of the heavy minerals.
اقرأ المزيدThe recovery of heavy minerals by gravity concentration during grinding is practiced widely in the minerals industry. Studies have shown that the grade and recovery of the concentrate depends not only on the performance of the concentrator but also on the degree of liberation achieved in the mills and the scavenging action of the hydrocyclones …
اقرأ المزيدThe heavy minerals and their host clastic lower part of the Amij Formation including a proposed heavy-mineral placer deposit, very rich in opaques and transparent minerals (zircon, monazite, rutile, and tourmaline and others) form the uppermost part of the sandstone unit exposed in the western desert of Iraq are studied.
اقرأ المزيدThese were readily detected, both visually and chemically, in heavy-mineral concentrates. Theobald and Allcott (1973) describe an example where the grain size of scheelite is of the order of centimetres. Tungsten is rarely detected in unconcentrated stream sediments, and without care may be lost by sieving before heavy-mineral …
اقرأ المزيدObjective: We aimed to determine the relationship between some mineral, trace element and heavy metal levels in the patients of lung cancer by measuring serum levels of copper (Cu), lead (Pb), zinc (Zn), iron (Fe), cobalt (Co), cadmium (Cd), manganese (Mn), magnesium (Mg). Methods: A total of 50 lung cancer and human health (30 lung cancer …
اقرأ المزيدBioturbation, heavy mineral concentration, and high gamma-ray activity in the Lower Cretaceous McMurray Formation, Canada Milovan Fustic a,b,*, ... are enriched in heavy mineral grains, and particularly in zircons. The content of radioactive elements is variable. Thorium is commonly elevated up to three times, uranium nil to two times, and ...
اقرأ المزيدThe heavy minerals content gives rise to elevated 226 Ra and 232 Th activity concentrations in all of black sand samples. Evaluation of the various radiological risk parameters points to values which in some cases could be in excess of recommendations providing for safe living and working.
اقرأ المزيدThe potential of heavy minerals studies in provenance analysis can be enhanced conspicuously by using a state-of-the-art protocol for sample preparation in the laboratory, which represents the first fundamental step of any geological research. The classical method of gravimetric separation is based on the properties of detrital …
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