 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (Sustainable Mining Research & Consult EIRL), Casilla 28, San Pedro de la Paz 4130000, Chile; E-Mail: bernhard...June 2014 / Published: 8 July 2014 Abstract: The mining industry is a fundamental industry involved in...to increases in the waste/metal production ratio. Mine wastes deposited on-land in so-called tailings dams...environmental issues that need to be addressed (e.g., acid mine drainage formation due to sulphide oxidation, geotechnical...and social concerns due to land use during mining. The mining industry recognizes these concerns and is |  | Rodriguez-Mustafa, Maria A., Simon, Adam C., del Real, Irene, Thompson, John F.H., Bilenker, Laura D., Barra, Fernando, Bindeman, Ilya, Cadwell, David (2020) A Continuum from Iron Oxide Copper-Gold to Iron Oxide-Apatite Deposits: Evidence from Fe and O Stable Isotopes and Trace Element Chemistry of Magnetite. Economic Geology, 115 (7). 1443-1459 doi:10.5382/econgeo.4752 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mathematical Sciences (FCFM), Universidad de Chile, Santiago 8380450, Chile 4PetraScience 5Department 6Department...Sciences (FCFM), Universidad de Chile, Plaza Ercilla 803, Santiago 8380450, Chile 7Department of Geological...mineral in IOA deposits, whereas magnetite and hematite are predominant in IOCG deposits, with copper...stratigraphically deeper levels of S-Cu-Au–rich magnetite- and hematite-dominated IOCG deposits. Here we report minor...Department of Geology, Universidad de Chile, Plaza Ercilla 803, Santiago, Chile. ISSN 0361-0128; doi:10.5382/econgeo |  | Maza, Santiago, Collo, Gilda, Morata, Diego, Cuña-Rodriguez, Carolina, Taussi, Marco, Renzulli, Alberto (2021) The Hydrothermal Alteration of the Cordón de Inacaliri Volcanic Complex in the Framework of the Hidden Geothermal Systems within the Pabelloncito Graben (Northern Chile) Minerals, 11 (11) 1279 doi:10.3390/min11111279 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Systems within the Pabelloncito Graben (Northern Chile) Santiago Nicolás Maza 1 , Gilda Collo 2,3 , Diego...Systems within the Pabelloncito Graben (Northern Chile). Minerals 2021, 11, 1279. https:// doi.org/10.3390/min11111279...Matematicas, Universidad de Chile, Plaza Ercilla 803, Santiago 8370450, Chile; santiagomaz@gmail.com Consejo...occurred; (ii) argillic alteration with kaolinite + hematite + halloysite + smectite + I/S + illite in the...heated freshwater bodies at 5100 m a.s.l. in the Atacama Desert environment could be related with the last |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 2. General setting of this study 91 2.1 Salobo mine 92 The Salobo iron oxide copper-gold (IOCG) deposit...Pollard et al., 2019) is the largest open-cut Cu mine in 94 Brazil, located within the tropical mountain...and Fonboté, 2000; Burns et al., 2017). The 103 mine is a large open cut operation (Fig. 1b) with total...2.2 Context and rationale for this study 106 Mining at Salobo has penetrated through a well-defined...variably dehydrated to form goethite and/or 114 hematite (Fig. 2; Silva and Kotschoubey, 2000; Reich and |  | Herazo, Andrea, Reich, Martin, Barra, Fernando, Morata, Diego, Real, Irene del (2021) Trace Element Geochemistry of Pyrite from Bitumen-Bearing Stratabound Cu–(Ag) Deposits, Northern Chile. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 5 (3) 566-579 doi:10.1021/acsearthspacechem.0c00321 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Bitumen-Bearing Stratabound Cu−(Ag) Deposits, Northern Chile Andrea Herazo,* Martin Reich, Fernando Barra, Diego...ABSTRACT: The Coastal Cordillera metallogenic province of northern Chile comprises several styles of mineralization...deposits from the Coastal Cordillera of northern Chile formed during two main periods, i.e., the Late Jurassic...bitumen-bearing stratabound Cu−(Ag) deposits from northern Chile to assess the formation conditions of these deposits...deposits from the Coastal Cordillera metallogenic province. We interpret these variations as resulting from |  | González, ElÃas, Kojima, Shoji, Ichii, Yoshihiko, Tanaka, Takayuki, Fujimoto, Yoshikazu, Ogata, Takeyuki (2018) Silician Magnetite from the Copiapó Nordeste Prospect of Northern Chile and Its Implication for Ore-Forming Conditions of Iron Oxide–Copper–Gold Deposits. Minerals, 8 (11) 529 doi:10.3390/min8110529 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from the Copiapó Nordeste Prospect of Northern Chile and Its Implication for Ore-Forming Conditions of...Antofagasta, Chile; skojima@ucn.cl Minera Nittetsu Chile Ltda., O´Higgins 744, Oficina 607, Copiapó, Chile; tanaka@mineranittetsu...T.); fujimoto@mineranittetsu.cl (Y.F.) Nittetsu Mining Consultants Co. Ltd., 2-3, Shiba 4-Chome, Minato-ku...with its its abundant a new prospect in Northern Chile. These ores show a variety of modes of occurrence...occurrence and textures, prospect in Northern Chile. These ores show a variety of modes of occurrence and textures |  | Sapiains, PÃa, Figueroa, Valentina, Hayashida, Frances, Salazar, Diego, Menzies, Andrew, González, Cristián, Loyola, Rodrigo, Murphy, Beau, González, Juan, Parcero-Oubiña, César, Troncoso, Andrés (2021) Supergene Copper and the Ancient Mining Landscapes of the Atacama Desert: Refining the Protocol for the Study of Archaeological Copper Minerals through the Case Study of Pukara de Turi. Minerals, 11 (12) 1402 doi:10.3390/min11121402 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Supergene Copper and the Ancient Mining Landscapes of the Atacama Desert: Refining the Protocol for...Supergene Copper and the Ancient Mining Landscapes of the 7 Atacama Desert: Refining the Protocol for...Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta 1240000, Chile Instituto de Investigaciones Arqueológicas y Museo...Universidad Católica del Norte, San Pedro de Atacama 1410000, Chile; vfigueroa@ucn.cl Department of Anthropology...Departamento de AntropologÃa, Universidad de Chile, Santiago 7800284, Chile; dsalazar@uchile.cl (D.S.); atroncos@uchile |  | Jonsson, Erik, Harlov, Daniel E., MaJka, JarosÅ‚aw, Högdahl, Karin, Persson-Nilsson, Katarina (2016) Fluorapatite-monazite-allanite relations in the Grängesberg apatite-iron oxide ore district, Bergslagen, Sweden. American Mineralogist, 101 (8) 1769-1782 doi:10.2138/am-2016-5655 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | relations in the Grängesberg apatite-iron oxide ore district, Bergslagen, Sweden Erik Jonsson1,2,*, Daniel...bodies from the Grängesberg Mining District in the Bergslagen ore province, south central Sweden. Fluorapatite...2002a; Nyström et al. 2008); (2) the Grängesberg district in south central Sweden (Johansson 1910; Looström...dkerberget mining districts are situated in the Palaeoproterozoic Bergslagen ore province in central...al. 2016). During the inception of large-scale mining in the early 1900s, the Grängesberg deposits were |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | relation to landuse/landcover in Mungi village, Medak District, Andhra Pradesh, India S. RAJITHA AND PRAVEEN... Goldschmidt Conference Abstracts 2010 A847 Mining wastes – Water quality deterioration and its impact...is one of the significant impacts arising out of mining and quarrying activity which is mainly in the form...land due to dumping of mine waste and overburden soil. The continuous mining activity of the last 100...and contaminated with heavy metals from historic mining and mineral processing operations. A field study |  | Rivas-Romero, Constanza, Reich, Martin, Barra, Fernando, Gregory, Daniel, Pichott, Sergio (2021) The Relation between Trace Element Composition of Cu-(Fe) Sulfides and Hydrothermal Alteration in a Porphyry Copper Deposit: Insights from the Chuquicamata Underground Mine, Chile. Minerals, 11 (7) 671 doi:10.3390/min11070671 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Deposit: Insights from the Chuquicamata Underground Mine, Chile Constanza Rivas-Romero 1,2, *, Martin Reich 1...Deposit: Insights from the Chuquicamata Underground Mine, Chile. Minerals 2021, 11, 671. https://doi.org/ 10...Matemáticas, Universidad de Chile, Plaza Ercilla 803, Santiago 8370450, Chile; mreich@cec.uchile.cl (M.R...FÃsicas y Matemáticas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago 8370450, Chile Department of Earth Sciences, University...Casa Matriz, Huérfanos 1270, Santiago 8370450, Chile; spich001@codelco.cl Correspondence: constanzarivasromero@gmail |  | Hazen, R. M., Golden, J., Downs, R. T., Hystad, G., Grew, E. S., Azzolini, D., Sverjensky, D. A. (2012) Mercury (Hg) mineral evolution: A mineralogical record of supercontinent assembly, changing ocean geochemistry, and the emerging terrestrial biosphere. American Mineralogist, 97 (7) 1013-1042 doi:10.2138/am.2012.3922 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 2005). The world’s largest Hg deposit, the Almadén district of central Spain, is representative of concentrations...Almadén and New Idria in California, the largest Hg mining districts in North America, represent post-Miocene...reworking of the mercury-hosting rocks of the Almadén district (primary mineralization 427–380 Ma) led to at...important mining district, including the New Almadén mine in Santa Clara County and the New Idria mine in San...mercury producers), represents a single mineralized province with ages restricted to the last 5.3 million years |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | emphasis on the El Algarrobo iron deposits (Atacama region, Chile) J.-J. M~nard D~partement des Sciences de...rocks, along well-developed regional deep faults (Atacama Fault system). The present study deals with the...Paris XI, under the following conditions: 15 KV, 12 nano-Amperes (analyst H. Bizouard) between 1982 and 1985...similar zonation can be observed in E1 Romeral District (Bookstrom 1977). Petrological evolution of the...cubic crystals and hematite crystals (J.C. Touray, personal communication 1986). Hematite and halite crystals |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | massive sulfide (VMS) deposit in the Golden Grove district, Western Australia. A deep weathering profile...Western Australia is a major Archaean metallogenic province hosting considerable resources of base metals...the Gossan Hill deposit within the Golden Grove district, followed by the discovery of what was thought...within the Golden Grove domain of the Murchison province (Baxter 1982; Ashley et al. 1988; Clifford 1992)...Archaean YalgooSingleton Greenstone Belt, Murchison Province in the western Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia |  | Velásquez, Germán, Carrizo, Daniel, Salvi, Stefano, Vela, Iván, Pablo, Marcial, Pérez, AgustÃn (2020) Tracking Cobalt, REE and Gold from a Porphyry-Type Deposit by LA-ICP-MS: A Geological Approach towards Metal-Selective Mining in Tailings. Minerals, 10 (2) 109 doi:10.3390/min10020109 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | LA-ICP-MS: A Geological Approach towards Metal-Selective Mining in Tailings Germán Velásquez 1, * , Daniel Carrizo...Advanced Mining Technology Center (AMTC), FCFM, Universidad de Chile, Santiago 8370451, Chile; daniel...Underground Project, Anglo American Chile, Santiago 7550103, Chile; ivan.vela@angloamerican.com (I.V.);...High-resolution mineral characterization performed on mine material from a giant porphyry copper deposit shows...form of visible micro-inclusions, invisible mineral nano-inclusions, and trace metals in the mineral lattice |  | | Report (issue) | | ........................................... R15 Mine Waste Characteristics........................................................................ R17 Mine Closure...........................................(da-) deci- (d-) centi- (c-) milli- (m-) micro- (µ-) nano- (n-) pico- (p-) femto- (f-) atto- (a-) 1012 109...one another at Dashuigou and Majiagou (Sichuan Province) in southwestern China, and the epithermal-like...at the Kankberg deposit in the SkellefteÃ¥ VMS district of Västerbotten County, Sweden. Combined, these |  | Zhang, Bimin, Han, Zhixuan, Wang, Xueqiu, Liu, Hanliang, Wu, Hui, Feng, Hui (2019) Metal-Bearing Nanoparticles Observed in Soils and Fault Gouges over the Shenjiayao Gold Deposit and Their Significance. Minerals, 9 (7) 414 doi:10.3390/min9070414 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | migrate upward to the surface. After years of study, nano-scale metal-bearing particles have been widely observed...studies, ultrafine metal-bearing particles at the nano-scale have been widely Minerals 2019, 9, 414; doi:10...underground underground mining. mining. To avoid Open stope To avoid mining-related contamination, the...sampling sites were located away from the mine adits, roads, mining-related contamination, the sampling sites...sites were located away from the mine adits, roads, tailings tailings ore processing mill.soil Tensamples |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | magnetite Abstract: The main deposits of the Bafq district (Choghart, Se Chahun and Chadormalou deposits)...different proportions in different parts of the district and the deposits. These are primary ignious magnetite...Microscopic evidence (replacement of magnetite by hematite and filling of fractures of thorite by magnetite)...foam-like magnetites. Keywords: Central Iran, Bafq district, Magnetite-apatite deposit, Geochemistry, O-isotope...Posht-e-Badam Micro Block of Central Iran, known as Bafq district. It contains significant bodies of magnetite mineralization |  | Crespo, Jorge, Holley, Elizabeth, Pfaff, Katharina, Guillen, Madeleine, Huamani, Roberto (2020) Ore Mineralogy, Trace Element Geochemistry and Geochronological Constraints at the Mollehuaca and San Juan de Chorunga Au-Ag Vein Deposits in the Nazca-Ocoña Metallogenic Belt, Arequipa, Peru. Minerals, 10 (12) 1112 doi:10.3390/min10121112 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and Roberto Huamani 4 1 2 3 4 * Department of Mining Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden,...kpfaff@mines.edu Department of Geology, Geophysics and Mining, Universidad Nacional de San AgustÃn, Av. Independencia...Keywords: gold; silver; Perú; gold veins; small-scale mining; geochemistry 1. Introduction The Nazca-Ocoña...the host rocks. Artisanal and small-scale gold mining is widespread in Peru where more than 200,000 people...on this activity [1]. In Arequipa, small-scale mining activities occur in several areas, where miners |  | Steadman, Jeffrey A., Large, Ross R., Olin, Paul H., Danyushevsky, Leonid V., Meffre, Sebastien, Huston, David, Fabris, Adrian, Lisitsin, Vladimir, Wells, Tristan (2021) Pyrite trace element behavior in magmatic-hydrothermal environments: An LA-ICPMS imaging study. Ore Geology Reviews, 128. 103878pp. doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2020.103878 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University of Tasmania, Hobart TAS 7001, Australia the Mining Value Chain (TMVC), Australian Research Council...Survey of South Australia, Department for Energy and Mining, GPO Box 320, Adelaide SA 5001, Australia 5Geological...of Queensland, Department of Natural Resources, Mining, and Energy, P.O. Box 15216, Brisbane QLD 4002...Stavely district of western Victoria (Schofield, 2018). 77 Copper-Au mineralization in this district is...deposit is located in the Neoproterozoic Paterson Province, Great Sandy 83 Desert, Western Australia. Gold |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Acid Mine Drainage Formation in Sulphidic Mine Tailings Bernhard Dold SUMIRCO (Sustainable Mining Research...EIRL), Casilla 28, San Pedro de la Paz 4130000, Chile; E-Mail: bernhard.dold@gmail.com; Tel.: +56-9-7762-6394...Sulphidic mine tailings are among the largest mining wastes on Earth and are prone to produce acid mine drainage...during the alkaline flotation process. (2) Once mining-related operations of the tailings impoundment...sign of this stage. Keywords: mining; metal; tailings; oxidation; acid mine drainage; waste management; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | hydrothermal pyrite in gold deposits of the Kalgoorlie district, Western Australia Marcelo Godefroy-RodrÃguez...Springer Nature 2020 Abstract The Kalgoorlie district in the Archean Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia...Fimiston style is characterized by ankerite-pyrite ± hematite-magnetite-gold replacement, (b) Oroya style overprints...pyrite concentrates is due to clusters of micron- to nano-sized inclusions rather than due to abundant lattice-bound...Yilgarn Craton is of major importance as a Au province with past production and resources of 5910 t of |  | Maydagán, Laura, Franchini, Marta, Lentz, David, Pons, Josefina, McFarlane, Christopher (2013) SULFIDE COMPOSITION AND ISOTOPIC SIGNATURE OF THE ALTAR Cu-Au DEPOSIT, ARGENTINA: CONSTRAINTS ON THE EVOLUTION OF THE PORPHYRY-EPITHERMAL SYSTEM. The Canadian Mineralogist, 51 (6) 813-840 doi:10.3749/canmin.51.6.813 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | & McPhail 1996, Pudack et al. 2009; Maricunga, Chile: Muntean & Einaudi 2001; Agua Rica: Franchini et... but higher than the giant Miocene deposits of Chile, with an average Au/Cu ratio of 0.14 × 10–4 by weight...located in the Cordillera Principal of SW San Juan Province, Argentina (Peregrine Metals 2010, Fig. 1A) within...and sulfosalts in hydrothermal deposits have both mining and environmental applications. Abraitis et al...Porphyry-High Sulfidation Epithermal deposit The Altar district contains the transition between the high-sulfidation |  | Salazar, Eduardo, Barra, Fernando, Reich, Martin, Simon, Adam, Leisen, Mathieu, Palma, Gisella, Romero, Rurik, Rojo, Mario (2020) Trace element geochemistry of magnetite from the Cerro Negro Norte iron oxide−apatite deposit, northern Chile. Mineralium Deposita, 55 (3) 409-428 doi:10.1007/s00126-019-00879-3 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Negro Norte iron oxide−apatite deposit, northern Chile Eduardo Salazar 1,2 & Fernando Barra 1,2 Rurik Romero...deposit located in the Chilean Iron Belt, northern Chile. The Cerro Negro Norte magnetite ore is hosted in...deposits in the Coastal Cordillera of northern Chile. Keywords Magnetite . Trace element geochemistry...Andean IOCG clan . Iron oxide−apatite deposits . Chile Editorial handling: A. R. Cabral Electronic supplementary...(CEGA), FCFM, Universidad de Chile, Plaza Ercilla 803, Santiago, Chile 2 Millennium Nucleus for Metal |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | deposits, southeastern Missouri iron metallogenic province, USA Celestine N. Mercer, Kathryn E. Watts, Juliane...deposits, southeastern Missouri iron metallogenic province, USA, Ore Geology Reviews (2019), doi: https://...deposits, southeastern Missouri iron metallogenic province, USA Celestine N. Mercer1*, Kathryn E. Watts2...Abstract The southeast Missouri iron metallogenic province contains a remarkable wealth of historically important...of fluorapatite, especially from the Pea Ridge hematite and Boss magnetite-rich zones. Fluorapatite from |  | Chen, Ping, Chen, Tianhu, Xie, Qiaoqin, Xu, Liang, Liu, Haibo, Zhou, Yuefei (2018) Mineralogy and geochemistry of limonite as a weathering product of ilvaite in the Yeshan iron deposit, Tongling, China. Clays and Clay Minerals, 66 (2) 190-207 doi:10.1346/ccmn.2018.064102a | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | characteristics indicated that Mn goethite was present as nano-granular (<15 nm) or acicular (50 100 nm long, ~10...southwest of Zhongming town in Tongling, Anhui Province, China (Figure 1). Tectonically, it is located...and banded limestone. Magmatic rocks in the ore district include granodiorite porphyry, quartz monzonitic...minerals include specularite, goethite, minor hematite, magnetite, and pyrite. The main gangue mineral...a granular texture. Fractures were filled with hematite and quartz (Figure 3a,b). Ilvaite was replaced |
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