 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | {0001} and a trace of another on {1011}; it possesses an irregular fracture. The measured density ranges from...consultant geochemist in the mining industry, is an avid collector of microminerals and minerals formed...oxide zone of mineral deposits. Dr. Robert B. Cook, an executive editor of Rocks & Minerals, is a professor...sparingly in ores of the Tucson mine in the Leadville district of Lake County, Colorado (Eckel 1997). In Arizona...identified widely throughout the Warren mining district but always in small amounts (Palache and Merwin |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mobilization of heavy metals from historical smelting slag dumps, north Queensland, Australia B. G. LOTTERMOSER*...6811, Cairns, QLD 4870, Australia ABSTR ACT Slag dumps occur at several historical smelting sites in...Australia. The microcrystalline slags contain primary slag phases, relict flux, ore and furnace materials and...secondary weathering related minerals. Common primary slag phases are glass, Zn-rich fayalite (± Zn-rich kirschsteinite)...alloys (Cu3Sn), and unknown metal compounds. The slag materials contain wt.% concentrations of Zn and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mineral precipitates from a historical smelting slag dump, Río Tinto, Spain B. G. Lottermoser, Cairns...mineralogy of mineral efflorescences associated with slag deposits at the historical Río Tinto smelter site...precipitates at seepage points at the base of the slag dump and as solid aggregates in protected overhangs...Evaporation of seepage waters emanating from the slag dump causes the precipitation of mobilised elements...sulfate contamination of Río Tinto waters. Key words: Slag, mineral efflorescences, gypsum, epsomite, hexahydrite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 737±747 The leaching behaviour of lead metallurgical slag in high-molecular-weight (HMW ) organic solutions...contaminants (Pb, Zn, Cu, As) in `soil-like' environments. Slag was submitted to a 112-day batch leaching experiment...MINTEQA2 calculations and confirmed on the leached slag surface by SEM and Raman spectrometry. Compared...predominant during the long-term interaction of slag with an HMW organic solution of real soil. As a result...re-vegetation of slag dumps may be considered as a possible scenario for slag management. K EY WORDS : slag, Pb metallurgy |  | Vítková, M., Ettler, V., Johan, Z., Kříbek, B., Šebek, O., Mihaljevič, M. (2010) Primary and secondary phases in copper-cobalt smelting slags from the Copperbelt Province, Zambia. Mineralogical Magazine, 74 (4) 581-600 doi:10.1180/minmag.2010.074.4.581 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | skeletal/dendritic crystal shapes indicated rapid cooling of the slag melt. Copper and cobalt were found in low concentrations...and sphaerocobaltite (CoCO3), were observed on the slag surfaces. They indicate that the slags studied are...Garlick, 1961). Carrollite (Cu(Co,Ni)2S4) occurs as an accessory phase of economic significance (up to 0...information Geology of the Zambian copper-mining district The Zambian Copperbelt forms the southeastern...produce Cu matte and remove Fe into the silicate slag. The second step is generally performed in Peirce-Smith |  | | Journal (issue) | | i i i Journal of Mines an�1 Minerals I s s u e No. 15i ,;. ,;�'S '' ` . / . � 1 • •� • ' 4...Hall Mineral Collection N. Turner. 1 Rammelsberg Slag Minerals 1 W. van den Berg and C. van Loon. Diary...exhibit is to surface in a much reduced space on an upper floor of the Geological Museum. Here, it will...such exotic destinations as Thailand, The Yukon and an oil-rig in the North Sea! We would like to thank...interest: the occurrence of a rare species; an unusual pseudomorph; an enormous crystal ... well you get the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | weathered slag samples. The documented amounts of As, Zn, Pb and their mobility in slags produce an environmental...purposes. K EY WORDS : Zn-Pb slag, slag composition, heavy elements mobilization, slag crystallization in undercooling...bulk compositions and leaching tests for two slag dumps from the Bytom Piekary Śla˛skie area, Upper...belongs to the Upper Silesian Industry District, which is an area hosting extensive mining and smelting...lead-zinc ores from the Cracow Silesia zinc-lead district, Poland, which are composed mainly of sphalerite |  | Fernández-Landero, Sandra, Fernández-Caliani, Juan Carlos, Giráldez, María Inmaculada, Morales, Emilio, Barba-Brioso, Cinta, González, Isabel (2023) Soil Contaminated with Hazardous Waste Materials at Rio Tinto Mine (Spain) Is a Persistent Secondary Source of Acid and Heavy Metals to the Environment. Minerals, 13 (4) 456 doi:10.3390/min13040456 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | toxic heavy metals were found especially in the slag-contaminated soil. Copper, Zn, and Pb were the most...and heavy metals in the mine site and, therefore, an effective land reclamation program should ensure...Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and...mining and metallurgical wastes in the mining district of Rio Tinto (Spain). These drastically disturbed...located in Huelva province, Spain (Figure 1), is an internationally renowned mine not only for the giant |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mountains, southwestern Poland. The prevailing massive slag has a chemical composition dominated by FeO (up...olivine and hercynite. The second type, a porous slag, is poorer in FeO (up to 28 wt.%) and richer in...composition and distribution of trace elements in slag phases vary from sample to sample, which is consistent...diagrams used in this study indicate that most of the slag samples have solidified under conditions of strong...should be used to reconstruct the temperature of slag formation. Our mineralogical and chemical study |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 375–384 Published online 24 September 2015 Zn-Pb slag crystallization: evaluating temperature conditions...19th century. Thus, there is a great variety of slag textures and compositions reflecting changes in...calcination and precise dosages of coal/coke and add-ons. Slag samples were collected at three localities with...could be helpful in retrieving the temperature of slag crystallization. This study concentrates on the...compared with phase diagrams results. Zinc-lead slag dumps are a common feature of the landscape of Upper |  | | Book | | The remains of the Meadowfoot Lead Smelter are in an area of the Lowther Hills, adjacent to Wenlock Water...mines in production. As well as Wanlockhead being an important old major lead mining area it is a stop...Scottish World Gold Panning Championship and has an important local museum. Remains left by the Meadowfoot...be seen on the slopes of Sowen Dod (Fig 14) The slag dump occupies the relatively flat area below the...village. Before this date there were two conical dumps which were removed for hardcore/road fill and carparks |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mobility in leachate from lead-zinc metallurgical slag: experimental approach and long-term assessment...between smelter slag and water show differences depending on the origin of the slag. The studied samples...of the newly formed phases. An ‘oxidizing’ scenario can be proposed for slag waste disposal, considering...leached from the slag and in particular from the ore-processing slag. Quenched glass-rich slag from old car-battery...of Pb, especially in acidic environments. Neither slag would therefore be suitable for recycling for civil |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | groundwater contamination [3–12]. Thus, base-metal slag deposits at the Penn Mine in California contained...has also been observed [24]. Some studies showed an increase in sulfide oxidation or reductive dissolution...sludge on Pb/Zn tailings led to a decrease in pH, an increase in electrical conductivity (EC) and in extractable...contaminated soils. In one current treatment technique, an organic carbon reactive material is used to stimulate...the Iberian Pyrite Belt and the Cartagena mining district, is the oldest metallurgical and mining area in |  | Rosado, L., Morais, C., Candeias, A. E., Pinto, A. P., Guimarães, F., Mirão, J. (2008) Weathering of S. Domingos (Iberian Pyritic Belt) abandoned mine slags. Mineralogical Magazine, 72 (1) 489-494 doi:10.1180/minmag.2008.072.1.489 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | leachable of the elements studied. K EY WORDS : slag, acid mine drainage, metal pollution, S. Domingos...the chemical and mineralogical composition of the slag; (2) to identify the chemical and mineralogical...pollutants’ geochemical behaviour. FIG. 1. Piles of slag in S. Domingos mine and its spatial relationship... 2004). The association between metal and slag phase is an important control on the availability of metals...(Parsons et al., 2001). Moreover, the dispersion of slag grains can control the soil geochemistry near smelting |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Samples include ones collected in a medieval mining district in SW-Germany and ones that underwent short-term...were hydrated by rain and soil water in the mine dumps producing basic lead phases. Chemical composition...quantitatively explain their formation in the medieval mine dumps by the reaction of the lead oxides with a weathering...phases in other anthropogenic environments like slag dumps, lead contaminated soils or in contact to concrete...1976). Mineral samples for this study were taken from an old mine dump right in front of a medieval FS place |  | | Book | | opinion ol the time, proved that the Trojan War was an actual historical event, the scientific application...that research covering the whole peninsula would be an undertaking quite outside the limits of individual...Moorish king Alkamen of Cordoba is credited with an attempt to revive mining in the tenth century but...satis¬ factory proof that the large accumulation of slag existing in the area of these mines had been produced...produced prior to the departure of the Romans. Similar slag heaps are found elsewhere in the south-west of the |  | Warchulski, R., Mendecki, M., Gawęda, A., Sołtysiak, M., Gadowski, M. (2019) Rainwater-induced migration of potentially toxic elements from a Zn–Pb slag dump in Ruda Śląska in light of mineralogical, geochemical and geophysical investigations. Applied Geochemistry, 109. 104396 doi:10.1016/j.apgeochem.2019.104396 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | migration of potentially toxic elements from a Zn–Pb slag dump in Ruda Śląska in light of mineralogical, geochemical...A B S T R A C T Keywords: Zn-Pb slag Potentially toxic elements Slag weathering Rainfall leaching EM...heavy industry, including mining and smelting. Slag dumps scattered across the region are the sources of...At the slag dump in Ruda Śląska, it is possible to distinguish three types of slag: (i) slag associated...glassy slag composed of glass and single crystals of melilite and wollastonite; and (iii) slag composed |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 3.433 A MINERALOGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL STUDY OF SLAG FROM THE HISTORICAL O’DONNELL ROAST YARDS, SUDBURY...Sudbury, ON, P3E 2C6, Canada Abstract Highly altered slag samples from the historical O’Donnell Roast Yards...Yards, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada were examined to gain an understanding of the partitioning of metal and metalloids...alteration halos around the center of the remnant slag and rock piles indicate strong variations in the...chemical and mineralogical composition of the altered slag with lateral distance and depth. The concentration |  | Kierczak, J., Neel, C., Puziewicz, J., Bril, H. (2009) THE MINERALOGY AND WEATHERING OF SLAG PRODUCED BY THE SMELTING OF LATERITIC Ni ORES, SZKLARY, SOUTHWESTERN POLAND. The Canadian Mineralogist, 47 (3) 557-572 doi:10.3749/canmin.47.3.557 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 3749/canmin.47.3.557 THE MINERALOGY AND WEATHERING OF SLAG PRODUCED BY THE SMELTING OF LATERITIC Ni ORES, SZKLARY...wt.% SiO2, and slag 2 is enriched in Ca and impoverished in Fe relative to slag 1; slag 3 is characterized...(awaruite, bronze, metallic Fe and Cu). One type of slag contains significant amounts of the potentially...affected by weathering, and small vitreous fragments of slag occurring in nearby agricultural fields have only... Keywords: processing of Ni ore, lateritic ore, slag, phase composition, weathering, Szklary, Poland |  | Oparin, V. N., Ainbinder, I. I., Rodionov, Yu. I., Patskevich, P. G., Tapsiev, A. P., Freidin, A. M., Badtiev, B. P., Glukhov, V. A. (2007) Concept of a mine of tomorrow for deep mining at gentle copper-and-nickel deposits. Journal of Mining Science, 43 (6) 646-654 doi:10.1007/s10913-007-0071-x | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | only. A haulage level is driven in rocks underlying an orebody to draw broken ores via ore chutes, and a...of innovative ideas, principles and priorities of an underground mining technology as applied to the real...automation think that it is impossible to evolve an unmanned underground mining technology in the near...increases extraction output per a block, panel, district and a mine as a whole [1, 3, 4, 6]. TABLE 1. Comparison...report that replacing a remote control system by an automatic control system on a single loud-haul dumper |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geometallurgical Characterization of Non-Ferrous Historical Slag in Western Tasmania: Identifying Reprocessing Options...the slag during the smelting process. Today, the former smelter site consists of two large slag piles...geometallurgical and geo-environmental properties of these slag materials (n = 280) were determined. The South and...techniques could be explored, as well re-smelting. These slag materials are classified geoenvironmentally as potentially...these historic slags for Zn extraction may provide an economically feasible management option for rehabilitating |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | words: slag, derelict mines, leachability, mineralogy, elemental composition I. INTRODUCTION Slag is a...processing to recover metals. At many older mines, slag was intentionally dumped near the furnaces that...it, leaving behind coherent piles or jumbles of slag weighing many thousands of tonnes. Its appearance...solidification after smelting. These voids help to make slag porous and in places, permeable, allowing environmental...environmental water to infiltrate and leachate to exfiltrate. Slag from base metal ores is composed of minerals including |  | | Book | | archaeologists and is now considered indispensable and an integral part of archaeological studies. Interdisciplinary...Materials Science Aspects Andreas Hauptmann Haus der Archäologien, Archaeometallurgy Deutsches Bergbau-Museum...PhD students at Bochum through the years to work on an academic project in archaeometallurgy. My deep thanks...showed an extraordinary willingness to familiarise himself with this new topic for him as an archaeologist... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.2 What Is an Ore Deposit? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  | Zubkova, N. V., Chukanov, N. V., Pekov, I. V., Pushcharovsky, D. Yu., Katerinopoulos, A., Vuduris, P., Magganas, A. (2019) New Data on Fiedlerite-1A from Ancient Slags of Lavrion, Greece: Crystal Structure and Hydrogen Bonding. Doklady Earth Sciences, 486 (1) 517-520 doi:10.1134/s1028334x1905009x | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | bicapped trigonal prisms. In the structure there is an additional position Pb', filled by 10% with Pb2+...(lead was extracted in a subordinate amount), while slag containing other components (residual Pb, as well...mainly buried in the sea. The interaction of various slag components with seawater for more than two thousand...To date, their diversity in the ancient Lavrion slag has exceeded one hundred, and this number includes...“metallurgical slag–seawater.” This paper presents new data on fiedlerite-1A from ancient slag dumps buried in |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mineralogy and the release of trace elements from slag from the Hegeler Zinc smelter, Illinois (USA) Nadine...2009 Editorial handling by R. Fuge a b s t r a c t Slag from the former Hegeler Zn-smelting facility in...most slag samples is dominated by SiO2, Al2O3, Fe2O3 and CaO. The bulk composition of the slag suggests...suggests a high silica content of the melt. Bulk slag trace-element chemistry shows that the dominant...and therefore less leached when compared to the slag samples with lower bulk Zn concentrations where |
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