scholarly journals Diagenetic Controls on the Formation of the Anarraaq Clastic-Dominated Zn-Pb-Ag Deposit, Red Dog District, Alaska

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merilie A. Reynolds ◽  
Sarah A. Gleeson ◽  
Robert A. Creaser ◽  
Betsy A. Friedlander ◽  
Jenny C. Haywood ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sections ◽  
Mineral Exploration ◽  
Hydrothermal Activity ◽  
Cold Seep ◽  
Sulfide Deposit ◽  
Shallow Subsurface ◽  
Diagenetic Alteration ◽  
Subsurface Environment ◽  
Host Sediment

Abstract The Anarraaq clastic-dominated (CD) Zn-Pb-Ag deposit (Red Dog district, Alaska, USA) has an inferred mineral resource of 19.4 Mt at 14.4% Zn, 4.2% Pb, and 73 g/t Ag and is spatially associated with a separate ~1 Gt barite body. This study presents new cross sections and petrographic evidence from the Anarraaq area. The barite body, previously shown to have formed in a shallow subsurface environment akin to a methane cold seep, contains multiple generations of barite with locally abundant calcite masses, which are discordant to sedimentary laminae, and is underlain by an interval of massive pyrite containing abundant framboids and radiolarians. Calcite and pyrite are interpreted to have formed by methane-driven diagenetic alteration of host sediment at the sulfate-methane transition (SMT). The sulfide deposit contains two zones of Zn-Pb mineralization bounded by faults of unknown displacement. The dominant hydrothermal minerals are marcasite, pyrite, sphalerite, quartz, and galena. The presence of hydrothermal pseudomorphs after barite, early pyrite resembling diagenetic pyrite associated with the barite body, and hydrothermal quartz and sphalerite filling voids formed by dissolution of carbonate all suggest that host sediment composition and origin was similar to that of the barite body prior to hydrothermal mineralization. Rhenium-osmium isochron ages of Ikalukrok mudstone (339.1 ± 8.3 Ma), diagenetic pyrite (333.0 ± 7.4 Ma), and hydrothermal pyrite (334.4 ± 5.3 Ma) at Anarraaq are all within uncertainty of one another and of an existing isochron age (~338 Ma) for the Main deposit in the Red Dog district. This indicates that the Anarraaq deposit formed soon after sedimentation and that hydrothermal activity was approximately synchronous in the district. The initial Os composition of the Anarraaq isochrons (0.375 ± 0.019–0.432 ± 0.025) is consistent with contemporaneous seawater, indicating that a mantle source was not involved in the hydrothermal system. This study highlights the underappreciated but important role of early, methane-driven diagenetic processes in the paragenesis of some CD deposits and has important implications for mineral exploration.

Oxygen K near edge structures studied with multiple scattering calculations

1988 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 504-505
Author(s):  
Xudong Weng ◽  
Peter Rez
Keyword(s):  
Cross Section ◽  
Cross Sections ◽  
Partial Cross Section ◽  
Energy Window ◽  
Edge Structure ◽  
Fine Structures ◽  
Hydrogenic Model ◽  
Electron Energy Loss ◽  
Quantitative Chemical

In electron energy loss spectroscopy, quantitative chemical microanalysis is performed by comparison of the intensity under a specific inner shell edge with the corresponding partial cross section. There are two commonly used models for calculations of atomic partial cross sections, the hydrogenic model and the Hartree-Slater model. Partial cross sections could also be measured from standards of known compositions. These partial cross sections are complicated by variations in the edge shapes, such as the near edge structure (ELNES) and extended fine structures (ELEXFS). The role of these solid state effects in the partial cross sections, and the transferability of the partial cross sections from material to material, has yet to be fully explored. In this work, we consider the oxygen K edge in several oxides as oxygen is present in many materials. Since the energy window of interest is in the range of 20-100 eV, we limit ourselves to the near edge structures.

An Study of Influence of Imperfections on the Delamination of Diamond-Like Carbon Films

2002 ◽  
Vol 719 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myoung-Woon Moon ◽  
Kyang-Ryel Lee ◽  
Jin-Won Chung ◽  
Kyu Hwan Oh
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sections ◽  
Focused Ion Beam ◽  
Imaging System ◽  
Ion Beam ◽  
Carbon Films ◽  
Diamond Like Carbon ◽  
Glass Substrates ◽  
Atomic Force ◽  
Initiation And Propagation

AbstractThe role of imperfections on the initiation and propagation of interface delaminations in compressed thin films has been analyzed using experiments with diamond-like carbon (DLC) films deposited onto glass substrates. The surface topologies and interface separations have been characterized by using the Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) and the Focused Ion Beam (FIB) imaging system. The lengths and amplitudes of numerous imperfections have been measured by AFM and the interface separations characterized on cross sections made with the FIB. Chemical analysis of several sites, performed using Auger Electron Spectroscopy (AES), has revealed the origin of the imperfections. The incidence of buckles has been correlated with the imperfection length.

The Role of Industry-Academia Collaborative Research in Mineral Exploration

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Marlatt
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Research ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Mineral Exploration ◽  
Board Members ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
The University ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Economic Mineral

ABSTRACT Many people may not be aware of the extent of Kurt Kyser's collaboration with mineral exploration companies through applied research and the development of innovative exploration technologies, starting at the University of Saskatchewan and continuing through the Queen's Facility for Isotope Research. Applied collaborative, geoscientific, industry-academia research and development programs can yield technological innovations that can improve the mineral exploration discovery rates of economic mineral deposits. Alliances between exploration geoscientists and geoscientific researchers can benefit both parties, contributing to the pure and applied geoscientific knowledge base and the development of innovations in mineral exploration technology. Through a collaboration that spanned over three decades, we gained insight into the potential for economic uranium deposits around the world in Canada, Australia, USA, Finland, Russia, Gabon, Namibia, Botswana, South Africa, and Guyana. Kurt, his research team, postdoctoral fellows, and students developed technological innovations related to holistic basin analysis for economic mineral potential, isotopes in mineral exploration, and biogeochemical exploration, among others. In this paper, the business of mineral exploration is briefly described, and some examples of industry-academic collaboration innovations brought forward through Kurt's research are identified. Kurt was a masterful and capable knowledge broker, which is a key criterion for bringing new technologies to application—a grand, curious, credible, patient, and attentive communicator—whether talking about science, business, or life and with first ministers, senior technocrats, peers, board members, first nation peoples, exploration geologists, investors, students, citizens, or friends.

scholarly journals Role of α-Cluster Transfer in the Formation of 20Ne + 16O Cross-Sections at Backward Angles

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 780-787
Author(s):  
Sh. Hamada ◽  
Nourhan M. Elmedalaa ◽  
I. Bondouk ◽  
N. Darwish ◽  
Awad A. Ibraheem
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sections ◽  
Cluster Transfer

scholarly journals Few Body Effects in the Electron and Positron Impact Ionization of Atoms

Atoms ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
R.I. Campeanu ◽  
Colm T. Whelan
Keyword(s):  
Electron Impact ◽  
Cross Sections ◽  
Differential Cross ◽  
Impact Ionization ◽  
Inert Gas ◽  
Interference Effects ◽  
Positron Impact ◽  
Competing Interactions ◽  
Energy Sharing

Triple differential cross sections (TDCS) are presented for the electron and positron impact ionization of inert gas atoms in a range of energy sharing geometries where a number of significant few body effects compete to define the shape of the TDCS. Using both positrons and electrons as projectiles has opened up the possibility of performing complementary studies which could effectively isolate competing interactions that cannot be separately detected in an experiment with a single projectile. Results will be presented in kinematics where the electron impact ionization appears to be well understood and using the same kinematics positron cross sections will be presented. The kinematics are then varied in order to focus on the role of distortion, post collision interaction (pci), and interference effects.

scholarly journals Single-Photon Multiple Detachment in Fullerene Negative Ions: Absolute Ionization Cross Sections and the Role of the Extra Electron

2013 ◽  
Vol 111 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
R. C. Bilodeau ◽  
N. D. Gibson ◽  
C. W. Walter ◽  
D. A. Esteves-Macaluso ◽  
S. Schippers ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sections ◽  
Single Photon ◽  
Negative Ions ◽  
Ionization Cross ◽  
Extra Electron ◽  
Ionization Cross Sections

scholarly journals Evaporation-residue cross sections: role of the entrance channel

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 09004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Rowley ◽  
Nabila Saffdine Grar
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sections ◽  
Evaporation Residue ◽  
Entrance Channel

A FEM Frontal Impact Study of Square-Section Tubes with Different Structural Solutions for Vehicle Safety

2015 ◽  
Vol 798 ◽  
pp. 36-40
Author(s):  
Ciro Faria Maia ◽  
Guilherme Silame Maranhão Lima ◽  
Felipe Grossi L. Amorim ◽  
Evandro Queiroz Nunes Vera ◽  
Alexander Matioli Pasqual
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sections ◽  
Initial Velocity ◽  
Impact Analysis ◽  
Vehicle Safety ◽  
Impact Study ◽  
Frontal Impact ◽  
Structural Differences ◽  
Rigid Plane ◽  
Structural Solutions

The present paper presents a study of square-section tubes conditioned to a FE dynamic frontal impact analysis, considering a 10.0 m/s initial velocity against an infinitely rigid plane. A 50.0 kg punctual mass is positioned on center of the cross-sections, on the farthest side from the rigid plane and the deceleration pulse is measured along the simulations. After validating the numerical model with analytical solutions, the results are compared for four geometries with little structural differences in order to access the role of each difference on the geometry under crash situations. The results show that adding many triggers to the geometry may not be the best performance solution for crash boxes, since the geometry with few triggers achieved better values of deceleration peak than the others. In addition, the presence of holes showed to be an instability cause to the system. The structural solutions presented could be of great value for future vehicle crash box developments.

The role of fluid inclusions in mineral exploration—An attempt on the Bihar Mica Belt of India

1993 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. N. Jadhav ◽  
V. Panchapakesan ◽  
K. C. Sahu
Keyword(s):  
Fluid Inclusions ◽  
Mineral Exploration
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