Svalbard, situated in the high Arctic, is an important past and present coal mining area. Dozens of abandoned waste rock piles can be found in the proximity of Longyearbyen. This environment offers a unique opportunity for studying the biological control over the weathering of sulphide rocks at low temperatures. Although the extension and impact of acid mine drainage (AMD) in this area is known...

In part composed of Mg calcite and dolomite with a nearly continuous spectrum MgCO3 contents, carbonates forming at marine methane seeps are ideal candidates to study the formation early diagenetic surface conditions. Laboratory experiments, modelling co-variation mineralogical geochemical attributes seep suggest that sulphide – locally released from sulphate-driven anaerobic oxidation drives c...

The dynamics of sulphide oxidation in an experimental biofilm of the green sulphur bacterium, Prosthecochloris aestuarii, were studied using a newly developed light-dark cycling procedure. The biofilm was grown for 6 weeks in a benthic gradient chamber, in which gradients of light, sulphide and oxygen were imposed experimentally. The H2S concentrations and pH were measured with microsensors as ...

Sulphurous mineral waters have been traditionally used in medical hydrology as treatment for skin, respiratory, and musculoskeletal disorders. However, driven by recent intense research efforts, topical treatments are starting to show benefits for pulmonary hypertension, arterial hypertension, atherosclerosis, ischemia-reperfusion injury, heart failure, peptic ulcer, and acute and chronic infla...

Increasing environmental concern forces the reduction in share of synthetic surfactants production various industries, including mineral processing, by replacing them with more environmentally friendly compounds biological origin. Several studies on use biosurfactants processing are currently available literature, but they contain limited information related to physicochemistry these processes....

Russia and South Africa are the world’s leading producers of platinum group elements (PGEs). This places them in a unique position regarding supply these two key industrial commodities. The purpose this paper is to provide comparative high-level overview aspects geological occurrence, mineralogy, processing by flotation minerals (PGMs) found each country. A summary some major challenges faced c...

1. [35S]sulphate was used to measure the apparent turnover of sulphate, sulphide and microbial-protein-S in the rumen contents of four sheep that were intraruminally infused with 10 g sodium sulphate/d alone, or together with 126 mg sodium molybdate (50 mg molybdenum). 2. Infusion of molybdate increased the concentration of sulphate in rumen fluid from 2.2 to 7.2 mug S/ml and decreased the rate...

This article investigates the effect of material size on efficiency flotation concentration gold-copperarsenic ores Taror deposit (Republic Tajikistan) and studies dependence gold recovery duration process with purpose developing an alternative technological scheme for processing this ore type. According to X-ray phase analysis, samples consist rock-forming minerals by 92%. Ore mineralization i...

DOI: 10.17014/ijog.8.1.73-99 Laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) and electron microprobe analysis (EMPA) techniques were used to determine the mineralogy chemistry of dominant sulphide associated gold deposits at Fairview Gold Mine Barberton Greenstone Belt (BGB). The rocks ore mineral associations indicate mesothermal (orogenic) conditions for deposit. whole...