Deals with a study of the mineralogical and organic components of the monthly dust-fall deposited over Al Ain city, some 150km east of Abu Dhabi and 130km southeast of Dubai. The identification of the mineralogical and organic composition was carried out by means of infrared spectroscopy. This study reveals that the principal constituents of dust-fall over the studied city are calcite, gypsum, ...

Abstract At the location of Pamukkulu dam, it has engineering geological characteristics that are less supportive construction above it, especially for foundation dam. By taking data directly in field and by laboratory testing, information is needed regarding characterization mineralogy properties rocks. Mineralogical analysis was performed with petrography X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) while rock we...

Environmental desulfurization is gaining attention as an efficient approach to manage sulfidic mine tailings by separating sulfide minerals from tailings. While extensive research has been done reuse desulfurized in site reclamation, the responsible management or potential of valorization concentrates did not receive much attention. The objective this study was evaluate recover Au originating a...

The paper presents and analyzes the mineralogical, physical and chemical composition of dust deposited samples at six sites on the KAUST campus. KAUST is located on the Red sea coastal plain of Saudi Arabia. Monthly samples were collected between December 2014 and December 2015. The monthly deposition trends were compared to visibility and sun photometric measurements and to previous mineralogi...

The present study determined the mineralogy and thermal properties of kaolin from Acoculco (Puebla), at the eastern Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt and compared it with the nearby deposits of Agua Blanca (Hidalgo) and Huayacocotla (Veracruz). The mineralogy of the kaolins was determined by X-ray diffraction, infrared spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy. Thermal behaviour was studied by di...

Raman microspectroscopy measurements were performed on Hayabusa sample RA-QD02-0197. The sample has been provided by JAXA to our consortium in the scope of the 1 International Announcement of Opportunity [1]. Raman microspectroscopy is an appropriate technique for a contactless mineralogical investigation and is applied to describe the mineralogical composition of the sample. For the noble gas ...