Feasibility and cost of creating an iron-phosphate coating on pyrrhotite to prevent oxidation

 Acid mine drainage (AMD) occurs when sulfide minerals are exposed to an oxidizing environment. Most of the methods for preventing AMD are either short-term or high cost solutions. Coating with iron phosphate is a new technology for the abatement of AMD. It involves treating the sulfide with a coating solution composed of H₂O₂, KH₂PO₄, and sodium acetate as a buffer agent. The H₂O₂ oxidizes the sulfide surface and produces Fe³⁺ so that iron phosphate precipitates as a coating on the sulfide surface. Experiments performed under laboratory conditions prove that an iron phosphate coating can be established on pyrrhotite surfaces with optimal concentrations of the coating solution in the range of: 0.2M/0.01M H₂O₂, 0.2M KH₂PO₄, and 0.2M sodium acetate NaAc, depending on the experimental scale. Iron phosphate coating may be a long-term solution to the problem of AMD. The method would be easy to implement; the reagent cost, however, is not low enough, although it is lower than the conventional treatment with lime. Received: 30 March 1995 · Accepted: 6 September 1995     

Field assessment of acid mine drainage contamination in surface and ground water

Both sulfate and conductivity are useful indicators of acid mine drainage (AMD) contamination. Unlike pH, they are both extremely sensitive to AMD even where large dilutions have occurred. The advantage of using sulfate to trace AMD is that unlike other ions it is not removed to any great extent by sorption or precipitation processes, being unaffected by fluctuations in pH. These two parameters are also closely associated as would be expected, as conductivity is especially sensitive to sulfate ions. Therefore, as sulfate analysis is difficult in the field, conductivity can be used to predict sulfate concentration in both AMD and contaminated surface waters using regression analysis. Most accurate predictions are achieved by using equations given for specific conductivity ranges or AMD sources. There is also potential to use conductivity to predict approximate concentrations of key metals when the pH of the water is within their respective solubility ranges.     

三江盆地七星河区成因地层分析

区内存在５种等时性地层界面，据此将含煤岩系划分为６个成因单元，１０个亚单元。沉积环境经历了５个演化阶段，其中扇三角洲废弃阶段为最有利的聚煤时期。聚煤的有利部位位于废弃的扇三角洲体之上。     

秦岭核桃坝石炭系深水相遗迹化石,沉积环境和古地理分析

研究剖面位于陕西凤县核桃坝，构造上属秦岭造山带的商丹缝合带。核桃坝剖面下部为浅海陆棚相粉砂岩、泥灰岩和灰岩；中、上部以重力流沉积为主。在中部浊积岩中产遗迹化石：Ｎｅｒｅｉｔｅｓ ｆｅｎｇｘｉａｎｅｎｓｉｓ ｉｃｈｎｏｓｐ．ｎｏｖ．，Ａｃａｎｔｈｏｒｈａｐｈｅ ｃｆ． Ａ． ｉｎｃｅｒｔａ Ｋｓｉａｚｋｉｅｗｉｃｚ，Ｃｈｏｎｄｒｉｔｅｓ ｉｃｈｎｏｓｐ．，Ｐｌａｎｏｌｉｔｅｓ ｉｃｈｎｏｓｐ．等。其     

浙江杭嘉湖平原区环境地球化学研究

根据杭嘉湖平原区区域地球化学调查结果,对本区开展了区域和城市(杭州市)环境质量评价的环境地球化学研究。研究结果表明,杭嘉湖平原区区域环境质量和杭州市区环境质量良好,各环境质量区较好的反映各区内工业生产水平、人口密集程度、历史长短。通过对杭州市不同环境质量区内蔬菜的分析研究证明,杭州市区污染区内有害元素尚未对人体健康产生影响,但为防止今后出现超标现象,应当高度重视,加强土壤环境保护。     

淮南谢—矿煤的组成对甲烷吸附性的影响

从淮南谢—矿五层煤（Ｃ＿（１３）、Ｂ＿（１１ｂ）、Ｂ＿（１０）、Ｂ＿（４ｂ）和Ａ＿３）中精选出镜煤、壳质暗煤、惰性暗煤及构造煤，采用重量法，分别测定它们的甲烷吸附量，从而研究不同成分组成的煤其甲烷吸附性能。     

四川松潘马拉墩晚三叠世侏倭组的遗迹化石及沉积环境

四川松潘马拉墩晚三叠世侏倭组首次发现大量遗迹化石。本文根据不同遗迹属在不同层位中的相对丰度建立了两个遗迹组合，即Ｍｅｇａｇｒａｐｔｏｎ－Ａｒｔｈｒｏｐｈｙｃｕｓ组合及Ｎｅｏｎｅｒｅｉｔｅｓ－Ｐｈｙｃｏｓｉｐｈｏｎ组合，大致相当于Ｓｅｉｌａｃｈｅｒ（１９６７）［１］的Ｎｅｒｅｉｔｅｓ遗迹相．同时利用遗迹化石及沉积特点进行了沉积环境分析，认为侏倭组的沉积环境为大陆斜坡下部至盆地边缘。     

安徽省铜陵地区侵入岩成因的实验研究

通过３７次成岩实验研究认为：（１）在地壳温度下，地壳物质的重熔不可能形成石英闪长质或更基性的岩浆；（２）碱性玄武岩浆同化花岗质地壳，可以生成石英闪长质和花岗闪长质岩浆，所产生的岩浆高钾富碱，属高钾岩系，与铜陵地区侵入岩相似；（３）高压下形成的岩浆比中压下形成的岩浆更高钾富碱；（４）在岩浆演化过程中铜与钾似无成因联系，钾与铜的“相关性”与它们的趋同性有关，即两者均于岩浆晚期富集。     

Heavy metal retention in secondary precipitates from a mine rock dump and underlying soil, Dalarna, Sweden

This study investigates the retention of heavy metals in secondary precipitates from a sulfidic mine rock dump and underlying podzolic soils by means of mineralogical and chemical extraction methods. The rock dump, which is at least 50 years old, consists of a 5–10-cm-thick leached zone and an underlying 110–115-cm-thick accumulation zone. Optical microscopy and electron microprobe analyses confirm that pyrrhotite weathering has proceeded much further in the leached horizon relative to the accumulation horizon. The weathering of sulfides in the leached zone has resulted in the migration of most heavy metals to the accumulation zone or underlying soils, where they are retained in more stable phases such as secondary ferric minerals, including goethite and jarosite. Some metals are temporarily retained in hydrated ferrous sulfates (e.g., melanterite, rozenite). Received: 28 October 1996 · Accepted: 24 February 1997     

江西利山金矿床地质特征及控矿构造

本文较系统地阐述了利山金矿床的各项地质特征，并重点就控矿构造问题进行了总结讨论，认为ＮＷＷ向断裂带严格控制了所有金矿体的产出。ＮＮＥ、ＮＮＷ向断裂与ＮＷＷ向断裂带的交汇部位控制了富矿段的产出。在此基础上初步探讨了矿床成因及找矿方向，这对该地区的找矿评价和开发均具有实际意义