Geologic processes strongly influence water and sediment quality in aquatic ecosystems but rarely are geologic principles incorporated into routine biomonitoring studies. We test if elevated concentrations of metals in water and sediment are restricted to streams downstream of mines or areas that may discharge mine wastes. We surveyed 198 catchments classified as "historically mined" or "unmine...

Banding textures are commonly observed in mineral crystals for example in sphalerites in Mississippi Valley-type deposit. Cellular Nonlinear Network (CNN) has been developed in the literature for characterizing complexity especially for reaction-diffusion dynamic systems. These include models describing periodic precipitation incorporating nucleation and banding pattern formation in minerals. B...

The present study aims to investigate the textural, mineralogical and geochemical characteristics of lean grade placer monazite from Bramhagiri beach sand deposit assess possibility for its use in industrial applications. bulk back dune with 18 samples showed elements uranium thorium traces, phosphorus calcium minor amounts, alumina, silica titanium major amounts. Since apatite was absent this ...

The application of remote sensing sciences in the field geology is very diverse and wide. One its most important applications earth geological mapping. Mineral exploration using techniques done different ways, one them mapping alteration zones related to mineral resources. Given importance geosciences today's industry given that deposit-related areas are exploratory keys. this review study meth...

Diamonds formed during the Proterozoic and Archaean and are in-homogenously distributed in the mantle below Archaean cratons. Kimberlite magmas usually form well within the diamond stability field and physically incorporate seemingly random amounts of diamonds during their ascent through the mantle. The diamond content of a kimberlite magma arriving at the earth’s surface is defined by ascent p...

Combined geostatistical and multifractal power-spectrum modelling of geochemical distributions can provide suitable indicators of metal dispersion, and is capable of analysing complex problems for targeting potential areas for mineral exploration. A case study analysing lake sediment geochemical data for the Gowganda area is presented and development of the methodology for spatial analysis of t...

[1] The East Candor Interior Layered Deposit (ILD) has signatures of monoand polyhydrated sulfate in alternating layers that give insight into the processes which formed these layered deposits and on the environmental conditions acting on them since then. We use orbital data to explore multiple hypotheses for how these deposits formed: (1) sulfate-bearing ILDs experience hydration changes on se...

The Jiaodong Peninsula hosts the main large gold deposits and was first production area in China; multisource multiscale geoscience datasets are available. is biggest drilling mineral-exploration zone China. This study used three-dimensional (3D) modeling, geology, ore body alteration to extract synthesize mineralization information analyze exploration targeting Zhaoxian deposit northwestern Pe...

introduction there is an iron mining complex called shahrak 60 km east of takab town, nw iran. the exploration in the shahrak deposit (general name for all iron deposits of the area) started in 1992 by foolad saba noor co. and continued in several periods until 2008. the shahrak deposit comprising 10 ore deposits including korkora-1, korkora-2, shahrak-1, shahrak-2, shahrak-3, cheshmeh, golezar...