The research aimed to assess the effect of bottom sediment on the content, bioaccumulation and translocation of heavy metals in maize biomass. The investigations were conducted in 2006-2007 as a pot experiment on light soil of the granulometric composition of weakly-loamy sand. The experimental design comprised 3 treatments: without sediment (I), a 5% sediment admixture (II) and a 10% sediment ...

Iranian Cenozoic magmatic belt, known as Urumieh-Dokhtar, is recognized as an important polymetallic mineralization which hosts porphyry, epithermal, and polymetallic skarn deposits. In this regard, multivariate analyses are generally used to extract significant anomalous geochemical signature of the mineral deposits. In this study, stepwise factor analysis, cluster analysis, and concentration–...

The newly discovered Federation deposit, with a resource estimate of 2.6 Mt @ 7.7% Pb, 13.5% Zn, 0.8 g/t Au, and 9 Ag, lies 10 km south the Hera deposit within Cobar Basin Lachlan Orogen. Located just north Erimeran Granite contact between Lower Amphitheatre Group underlying shallow marine Mouramba Roset Sandstone, host siltstones sandstones have been brecciated, intensely silicified, chloritiz...

kalateh ahani is located 27 km southeast of gonabad within the khorasan razavi province. the area is part of lut block. sub-volcanic monzonitic rocks intruded regional metamorphosed shemshak formation (jurassic age). magnetic susceptibility of less altered monzonitic rocks is 0.6%., as, pb and zn > 1%, au up to 150 ppb and sn = 133 ppm. the sn content of vein in the northern part of kalateh aha...

Hyperspectral imaging is a powerful tool for mineral mapping and increasingly used in poorly-accessible areas. It only requires a limited amount of validation sample points, but can fail to discriminate spectrally-similar features. In this manuscript, we show that we improve the identification of interesting targets by including geomorphological data in the spectral mapping scheme. We jointly u...

In order to investigate the effects of Zn on Pb toxicities. Proportion of abnormal sperm, percentage of micronucleated polychromatic erythrocyte (MPCE), serum thyroid hormones (T(3), T(4)) and cortisol were measured. Rats received intraperitoneal injection of 25 mg/kg Pb acetate, 4 mg/kg Zn acetate, both Pb acetate and Zn acetate, or normal saline as controls, once every two days, 7 times in to...