Acid Production from Mixed Sulfide Minerals: The Mixture Pyrite/Arsenopyrite

Sulfur Isotope Geochemistry of Sulfide Minerals

Sulfide Production from Cysteine by Desulfovibrio desulfuricans.

Two rumen nitrate-reducing isolates of Desulfovibrio desulfuricans were found to hydrolyze cysteine with the production of sulfide and pyruvate. When cultured on agar medium containing yeast extract with nitrate as the primary electron acceptor and ferrous chloride as the indicator, blackening of colonies occurred. The blackening of colonies appeared sooner and was more intense when either cyst...

Minerals: Prospecting, Processing and Production

The application of chemistry to the technological requirements of the mineral industry is attended by problems of communication, isolation and application. Examples of research related to mineral exploration, underground fires, and the treatment of refractory ores suggest that the effective mineral chemist must learn the language of geology, metallurgy and engineering; that he must extend his s...

Nb1.30Cr0.70S5: a layered ternary mixed-metal sulfide

The new layered ternary sulfide, Nb(1.30)Cr(0.70)S(5), niobium chromium penta-sulfide, is isostructural with the solid solution Nb(1+x)V(1-x)S(5) and belongs to the FeNb(3)Se(10) structure type. Each layer is composed of two unique chains of face-sharing [NbS(8)] bicapped trigonal prisms (m symmetry) and edge-sharing [MS(6)] (M= Nb, Cr) octa-hedra (m symmetry). One of the two metal sites is occ...

Copper sulfide precipitation by yeasts from Acid mine-waters.

Two strains of Rhodotorula and one of Trichosporon precipitated dissolved copper with H(2)S formed by reducing elemental sulfur with glucose. Iron stimulated this activity under certain conditions. In the case of Rhodotorula strain L, iron stimulated copper precipitation aerobically at a copper concentration of 18 but not 180 mug/ml. Anaerobically, the L strain required iron for precipitation o...