kuh-e-siah is located in the north of gavkhuni lagoon and east of the varzaneh (se of isfahan) and is a part of urumieh-dokhtar magmatic arc (udma). the volcanic rocks of this area are vesicular basalt and basaltic andesite with late miocene age. the most common textures of these rocks are porphyry, microlitic porphyritic, hyaloporphyric and vesicular. plagioclase, olivine and clinopyroxene are...

Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) is extensively grown and is the most widely used food crop for the called “Fourth Range” of vegetables. Lettuce exhibits healthy properties mainly due to the presence of antioxidant compounds (vitamins C and E, carotenoids, polyphenols) alongside significant fibre content and useful amounts of certain minerals. Lettuce can establish a mutualistic association with arb...

Electron-probe microanalyses and scanning electron microscopy of chrornitites from some ultramafic members of Neyriz ophiolite indicate that sulifides of platinum- group minerals (PGMs) occur as solid inclusions in chromite grains. Laurite with the general formula of (Ru ,Os ,lr ) S , and erlichmanite are the main identified sulfide phases. The PGMs occur as 4 to 20 microns euhedral to rect...

Specific elements (Cr, Al, Ca, and Si) and loss on ignition (LOI) were used for semi-quantitative determination of the normative mineralogical composition of naturally occurring chromium ores in ophiolite complexes. By far the occurring ore minerals are complex both from the mineralogical and chemical viewpoints. The secondary minerals serpentine and Cr-containing chlorite (kaemmererite) form n...

Lithium isotopes are used to trace weathering intensity, but little is known about the processes that fractionate them in highly weathered settings, where secondary minerals play a dominant role reactions. To help fill this gap our knowledge of Li isotope systematics, we investigated fractionation at an andesitic catchment Puerto Rico, highest rates silicate on Earth have been documented. We fo...

nezam-abad area is located in southwest of shazand (arak) which is a part of sanandaj-sirjan zone. major intrusive rocks of nezam-abad are quartz diorite and minor amount of granodiorite. leucogranitic, pegmatite dykes and quartz-tourmaline veins were intruded the quartz diorite. quartz diorites are mainly composed of plagioclase, hornblende, biotite, quartz and pyroxene as major minerals. majo...

in this work, a bench-scale process was developed using mineral-processing methods to recover iron from a placer deposit located in bardaskan, khorasan-e-razavi, iran. the mineralogical studies were performed by x-ray diffraction (xrd), x-ray fluorescence (xrf), electron probe micro-analyzer (epma), and an optical microscope. these studies indicated that titanomagnetite, magnetite, and hematite...