MINERAIS PESADOS NA FRAÇÃO AREIA DO COLÚVIO-CASCALHO DIAMANTÍFERO DO GARIMPO DE PAININ (ITAITUBA, PARÁ, BRASIL)

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2021) (2) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Marcus Brito ◽  
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Marcondes Costa ◽  
Herbert Pöllmann ◽  
Helmut Hohn ◽  
...  

The present work describes the heavy minerals identified in the sand fraction of the diamond-rich alluvium of the Painin garimpo, located on the right bank of the Tapajós River, in Itaituba, Pará. In general, secondary diamond deposits, such as those found in several regions of Brazil (Minas Gerais, Bahia, Goiás, etc.) have a very characteristic assemblage of heavy minerals, in which their minerals are known as diamond satellites. In Painin these minerals were extracted from the concentration of gravel obtained with the aid of a pan, after the extraction of pebbles, silt and clay fractions. The sand fraction was sieved in several fractions and from the fractions 0.25-0125 and 0.125-0.062 mm, the non-opaque heavy minerals were separated using bromoform as a heavy liquid. Minerals were identified by optical microscopy and x-ray diffraction. They stand out in descending order and according to the fraction sand, staurolite, tourmaline, corundum, rutile, diaspore, gold, topaz, zircon, anatase and kyanite. Of these, only corundum and diaspore are not classic heavy minerals from sedimentary rocks of the great Amazon region. These two minerals are together with the phosphates of the alunite supergroup, often found in the satellites of the secondary Painin diamond deposits, but not mentioned in those mentioned above, and likely to have an affinity with the primary nature of the diamond. Rutile, anatase and iron oxides are most frequently cited in these satellites. Probably corundum, diaspore and the alunite supergroup phosphates are characteristic for Painin.

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2021) (2) ◽  
pp. 1-41
Author(s):  
Marcus Brito ◽  
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Marcondes Costa ◽  
Herbert Pöllmann ◽  
Mário Chaves ◽  
...  

The diamonds from the Painin garimpo, on the Tapajós River, in Itaituba, state of Pará, were mined in alluvial gravel in geological terrains dominated by the Barreirinha, Itaituba and Monte Alegre Paleozoic formations. 30 diamonds extracted from the concentrates of this garimpo were analyzed by stereomicroscopy, optical microscopy, x-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy with EDS and luminescence. The average weight of these specimens is 0.42 ct and the predominant forms are dodecahedral and octahedral, in addition to others such as ballas and bort. Surface figures, microstructures, luminescence, and various inclusions are recognized. The inclusions can be classified as syngenetic (periclase, diopside, among others) and epigenetic (eg minerals of crandallite group). Green covers were also observed. This study, however, was not able to solve the problem of the genesis of the diamond in the studied region, as happens to date with most secondary diamond deposits in the Amazon region (Tapajós, Tocantins and Tepequém-Maú), except for those related to kimberlite pipes of Mato Grosso Rondônia.


2015 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 359-373
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Stanienda

Abstract The results of investigation of the associated rocks with the Saddle Beds Coals Seams from Chwałowice Trough were presented in this article. The results of researches show that sandstones and mudstones dominate in the investigating profile. Claystones are situated mainly in ceilings and floors of coal seams. Grains of sandstones include mainly quartz, feldspars, micas and also quartzite’s and gneiss’s fragments. It is also possible to observe small grains of heavy minerals. Some of sandstones present bad compactness and are destroyed during transportation. This feature is connected with presence of little quantity of cement, especially in medium grained sandstones, which include more matrix than typical cement. The cement is built mainly of clay minerals, kaolinite and illite, carbonates and chalcedony but X-ray diffraction confirmed also the presence of halite in the cement of investigated sandstones. Mudstones and claystones are composed mainly of clay minerals. It’s also possible to find quartz and micas there. Higher amounts of quartz and micas are possible to find rather in mudstones. The associated rocks with the Saddle Beds Coal Seams from Chwałowice Trough include also organic matter.


2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryosuke Sinmyo ◽  
Elena Bykova ◽  
Sergey V. Ovsyannikov ◽  
Catherine McCammon ◽  
Ilya Kupenko ◽  
...  

Abstract Iron oxides are fundamentally important compounds for basic and applied sciences as well as in numerous industrial applications. In this work we report the synthesis and investigation of a new binary iron oxide with the hitherto unknown stoichiometry of Fe7O9. This new oxide was synthesized at high-pressure high-temperature (HP-HT) conditions, and its black single crystals were successfully recovered at ambient conditions. By means of single crystal X-ray diffraction we determined that Fe7O9 adopts a monoclinic C2/m lattice with the most distorted crystal structure among the binary iron oxides known to date. The synthesis of Fe7O9 opens a new portal to exotic iron-rich (M,Fe)7O9 oxides with unusual stoichiometry and distorted crystal structures. Moreover, the crystal structure and phase relations of such new iron oxide groups may provide new insight into the cycling of volatiles in the Earth’s interior.


Clay Minerals ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Khormali ◽  
A. Abtahi ◽  
H. R. Owliaie

AbstractClay minerals of calcareous sedimentary rocks of southern Iran, part of the old Tethys area, were investigated in order to determine their origin and distribution, and to reconstruct the palaeoclimate of the area. Chemical analysis, X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and thin-section studies were performed on the 16 major sedimentary rocks of the Fars and Kuhgiluyeh Boyerahmad Provinces.Kaolinite, smectite, chlorite, illite, palygorskite and illite-smectite interstratified minerals were detected in the rocks studied. The results revealed that detrital input is possibly the main source of kaolinite, smectite, chlorite and illite, whilein situneoformation during the Tertiary shallow saline and alkaline environment could be the dominant cause of palygorskite occurrences in the sedimentary rocks.The presence of a large amount of kaolinite in the Lower Cretaceous sediments and the absence or rare occurrence of chlorite, smectite, palygorskite and illite are in accordance with the warm and humid climate of that period. Smaller amounts of kaolinite and the occurrence of smectite in Upper Cretaceous sediments indicate the gradual shift from warm and humid to more seasonal climate. The occurrence of palygorskite and smectite and the disappearance of kaolinite in the late Palaeocene sediments indicate the increase in aridity which has probably continued to the present time.


2010 ◽  
Vol 428-429 ◽  
pp. 126-131
Author(s):  
Wei Zhong Lu ◽  
Chun Wei ◽  
Qui Shan Gao

Polymethylene bis(p-hydroxybenzoates) were prepared from methyl p-hydroxybenzoate and different diols by melted transesterification reaction. Three liquid crystalline polyesters were synthesized from terephthaloyl dichloride and polymethylene bis(p-hydroxybenzoates). Its structure, morphology and properties were characterized by Ubbelohde viscometer, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), polarized optical microscopy (POM) with a hot stage, and wide-angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD). Results indicated that the intrinsic viscosities were between 0.088 and 0.210 dL/g. Optical microscopy showed that the TLCP has a highly threaded liquid crystalline texture and a high birefringent schlieren texture character of nematic phase and has wider mesophase temperature ranges for all polyesters. DSC analysis were found that the melting point (Tm), isotropic temperature (Ti) of TLCPs decreased and the temperature range of the liquid crystalline phase became wider with increased number of methylene spacers in the polyester. The WAXD results showed that TLCPs owned two strong diffraction peaks at 2θ near 19° and 23°.


1985 ◽  
Vol 49 (352) ◽  
pp. 393-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. H. Nadeau ◽  
M. J. Wilson ◽  
W. J. McHardy ◽  
J. M. Tait

AbstractDiagenetic illitic clays from seven North American bentonites of Ordovician, Devonian, and Cretaceous ages and from three subsurface North Sea sandstones of Permian and Jurassic ages have been examined by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and transmission and scanning electron microscopy (TEM and SEM). XRD indicates that the clays from the bentonites are randomly and regularly interstratified illite/smectites (I/S) with 30–90% illite layers, whereas the clays from the Jurassic and Permian sandstones are regularly interstratified I/S, with 80–90% illite layers, and illite respectively. TEM of shadowed materials shows that randomly interstratified I/S consists primarily of mixtures of elementary smectite and ‘illite’ particles (10 and 20Å thick respectively) and that regularly interstratified I/S and illite consist mainly of ‘illite’ particles 20–50 Å thick and > 50 Å thick respectively. Regularly interstratified I/S from bentonites and sandstones are similar with regard to XRD character and particle thickness distribution. These observations can be rationalized if the interstratified XRD character arises from an interparticle diffraction effect, where the smectite interlayers perceived by XRD, result from adsorption of exchangeable cations and water or organic molecules at the interfaces of particles generally < 50Å thick. A neoformation mechanism is proposed by which smectite is converted to illite with increasing depth of burial in sedimentary rocks, based on dissolution of smectite particles and the precipitation/growth of ‘illite’ particles occurring within a population of thin phyllosilicate crystals.


2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 541-546
Author(s):  
R.S. Kaliramana ◽  
B.S. Pannu ◽  
J.P. Singh

Mineralogia ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 3-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamaleldin M. Hassan ◽  
Julius Dekan

AbstractOlivine basalts from southern Egypt were studied by 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy at 297 and 77 K, and by optical microscopy and X-ray diffraction. The 57Fe Mössbauer spectra show three-magnetic sextets, three doublets of ferrous (Fe2+), and a weak ferric (Fe3+) doublet that is attributable to a nanophase oxide (npOx). The magnetic sextets relate to titanomagnetite and the Fe2+ doublets to olivine, pyroxene, and ulvöspinel. Variations in the hyperfine parameters of the various Fe components are attributed to changes in the local crystal chemistry. The intensity of oxidation (Fe3+/ΣFe) in the rocks varies from 20-27% with the oxidized iron largely residing in the titanomagnetite.


2009 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
I.R. Ziganshin ◽  
S.E. Porozova ◽  
A.E. Stolina ◽  
M.F. Torsunov

Impact of mechanochemical activation (MCA) in aqueous medium with various organic additives on commercial titania powder and products made of it has been investigated by X-ray diffraction, optical microscopy and Raman spectroscopy. Agar-agar additive has been shown to offer promise for activation of titania powders used in obtaining both dense and porous materials.


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