This work shows the benefits of characterizing historic paintings via compositional and microtextural data from micro-X-ray diffraction (μ-XRD) combined with molecular information acquired with Raman microscopy (RM) along depth profiles in paint stratigraphies. The novel approach was applied to identify inorganic and organic components from paintings placed at the 14th century Islamic Universit...

Barium isotopes could be a novel tracer in low-temperature geochemical processes such as the Ba cycle rivers and oceans. Equilibrium isotope fractionation between Ba-hosting minerals aqueous solution is of great importance for applications geochemistry, but it remains poorly constrained. In this study, we performed first-principles calculations based on density functional theory (DFT) to determ...

Coal-bearing strata that host rare metal deposits are currently a hot issue in the field of coal geology. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the mineralogy, geochemistry, and potential economic significance of rare metals in the late Permian tuff in Zhongliangshan mine, Chongqing, southwestern China. The methods applied in this study are X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRF), inductivel...

introduction the study area is located in the central part of the khaf- kashmar- bardaskan volcano-plotunic belt (briefly kkbb). several iocg deposits such as tanourjeh au-bearing magnetite deposit and kuh-e-zar specularite-rich au deposit have been explored in kkbb. geology, alteration, mineralization, geochemistry and fluid inclusion results in kashmar suggest the iocg type au-bearing magneti...

This study discusses the hydrothermal formation of romanechite (Ba0.7Mn4.5O10.1.1H2O) in Romanèche Mn deposit and significance its age by combining ore petrogenesis 40Ar/39Ar ages. Romanechite occurs as a minor phase various manganese types remains poorly studied comparison with other K-bearing oxides (i.e., coronadite group) because scarcity, small grain size, intermixing poor crystallinity. T...

The demand for responsibly sourced cobalt has increased dramatically as a result of the global transition to ‘fossil-free’ electromobility. However, distribution, mineralogical expressions and mechanisms concentration Co in different types hydrothermal ore deposits remain poorly constrained, inhibiting resource assessments exploration. Here we report other metal concentrations ores from active ...

Informal lending and savings institutions exist around the world, and often include regular door-to-door deposit collection of cash. Some banks have adopted similar services in order to expand access to banking services in areas that lack physical branches. Using a randomized control trial, we investigate determinants of participation in a deposit collection service and evaluate the impact of o...

we have studied the relation between bank deposit rates and house prices in iran. for that, we have run some var models, using the following variables: real deposit rates (including 1 and 5 years deposit rates), money supply (including the high powered money and the liquidity), gdp, housing services index, and number of licenses for new houses. our results show that a reduction in the deposit r...

This paper explores sources of deposit dollarization unrelated to standard moral hazard arguments. We develop a model in which banks choose the optimal currency composition of their liabilities. We argue that the equal treatment of peso and dollar claims in the event of bank default can induce banks to attract dollar deposits above the socially desirable level. The distortion arises because dol...