scholarly journals Environmental geochemistry of the polymetallic ore deposits: Case studies from the Rude and the Sv. Jakob historical mining sites, NW Croatia

2013 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabina Strmić Palinkaš ◽  
Ladislav A. Palinkaš ◽  
Maja Kuzmanović ◽  
Maša Martinić ◽  
Štefica Kampić ◽  
...  
Resources ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Guzik ◽  
Krzysztof Galos ◽  
Alicja Kot-Niewiadomska ◽  
Toni Eerola ◽  
Pasi Eilu ◽  
...  

Major benefits and constraints related to mineral extraction within the EU have been identified on the examples of selected critical raw materials’ deposits. Analyzed case studies include the following ore deposits: Myszków Mo-W-Cu (Poland), Juomasuo Au-Co (Finland), S. Pedro das Águias W-Sn (Portugal), Penouta Nb-Ta-Sn (Spain), Norra Kärr REEs (Sweden) and Trælen graphite (Norway). They represent different stages of development, from the early/grassroot exploration stage, through advanced exploration and active mining, up to reopening of abandoned mines, and refer to different problems and constraints related to the possibility of exploitation commencement. The multi-criteria analysis of the cases has included geological and economic factors as well as environmental, land use, social acceptance and infrastructure factors. These factors, in terms of cost and benefit analysis, have been considered at three levels: local, country and EU levels. The analyzed cases indicated the major obstacles that occur in different stages of deposit development and need to be overcome in order to enable a new deposit exploitation commencement. These are environmental (Juomasuo and Myszków), spatial (Juomasuo) as well as social constraints (Norra Kärr, Juomasuo). In the analyzed cases, the most important constraints related to future deposit extraction occur primarily at a local level, while some important benefits are identified mainly at the country and the EU levels. These major benefits are related to securing long-term supplies for the national industries and strategically important EU industry sectors.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tina Molodtsova ◽  
Christopher Kelley ◽  
Lénaick Menot ◽  
Les Watling

Depletion of commercially valuable minerals on land and increased need of such resources for modern electronics and manufacturing is attracting more and more attention to deep-sea mineral deposits such as cobalt crusts, manganese nodules, phosphorites, polymetallic sulfides and even deep-sea ooze. In a few years we expect intensive exploitation in the deep-sea. Being suspension feeders, corals and sponges associated with hard substrata in potential mining sites would be adversely impacted by deep-sea mining. Deep-sea corals and sponges are characterized by extremely slow growth rates and, as can be seen from fishery impacts, they may take decades to centuries to restore. At the same time, they serve as a substrate, shelter and food for a number of associated deep-sea organisms, thus increasing the cumulative impact of their loss. We summarize here the available data on coral and sponge communities of solid deep-sea ore deposits and possible mechanisms driving their diversity.


2016 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhichao Zou ◽  
Ruizhong Hu ◽  
Xianwu Bi ◽  
Liyan Wu ◽  
Jinrang Zhang ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-16
Author(s):  
B. DIYACHKOV ◽  
M. MIZERNAYA ◽  
A. PYATKOVA ◽  
A. BISATOVA ◽  
A. MIROSHNIKOVA ◽  
...  

Many geologists assign most of large- and medium-sized massive sulfide polymetallic ore deposits of Eastern Kazakhstan to the VMS type. These ore deposits formed in the Devonian, under conditions of rifting and active basalt-andesite-rhyolite volcanism. Ore bodies of these deposits are noted to be clearly confined to formations of several geochronologic levels (D1e to D3fm). Hydrothermal-sedimentary syngenetic and hydrothermal-metasomatic ores are distinguished. High concentrations of base metals in the ores (above 10 % sum metals) and their rather simple mineral composition (chalcopyrite, pyrite, galena, and sphalerite) are a characteristic feature of all the massive sulfide polymetallic ore deposits of Rudny Altai. The ores are noted to be multicomponental, with elevated contents of the admixtures of precious metals and rare elements (Cd, Se, Bi, Te, Ta, W, etc.). Mineralogical investigations of the ores have demonstrated an intricate relationships of the major ore minerals (chalcopyrite, pyrite, sphalerite, galena) that exhibit several generations and different geochemical specialization. Minerals of Au, Ag, Te, Bi, and other elements are encountered as individual grains or microscopic inclusions and stringers in minerals of Cu, Pb, and Zn. A significant vertical range of the ore mineralization (more than 100 m), the complexity and long duration of the ore-forming processes, the clearly defined confinement of the ore mineralization to certain geochronologic levels, – all these allow us to suppose a possibility of discovery of new ore lodes or individual ore deposits within the already known ore fields of the Kazakhstan segment of Rudny Altai


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