Oxide zone geochemistry
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Oxide zone geochemistry
Ellis Horwood, 1990
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Description
This book brings together branches of chemistry and mineralogy, a rapidly expanding area of science where a book is needed to bring together the "strands". It will be valuable for an understanding of the development of oxidised zones of sulfide orebodies, and has been written with the chemist, mineralogist, and exploration geologist in mind. It examines the basis of formation of secondary minerals in the supergene zone, and reviews the chemistry behind the dispersion of metallic elements in such environments. Parallels are drawn between this chemistry, heavy metal pollution and exploration geochemistry involving secondary dispersion. This volume will be of interest to geochemists, mineral chemists, metallurgists and applied geologists.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 General reactions and processes: redox reactions in oxidising sulfides
- reactions of sulfur species and simple sulfides
- lower valence sulfur oxyanions in oxide zones
- redox behaviour of other elements
- weathering of silicate gangues
- groundwater geochemistry. Part 2 Secondary mineral formation in oxide zones: elements and oxides
- carbonate minerals
- sulfate minerals
- halides and halogen-containing species
- phosphates, arsenates and other oxyanionic minerals
- secondary silicates and silica.
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