Verwitterungsversuche mit organischen Säuren an einigen schwerlöslichen Fe-Pb-Zn und Cu Erzmineralen,angewendet auf die Genese des Kupferschiefers |
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Authors: | Olaf Brockamp |
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Affiliation: | 1. Sedimentpetrographisches Institut der Universit?t G?ttingen, Deutschland
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Abstract: | The 1–2 mm fraction of FeS2, Fe3O4, PbS, PbSO4, ZnS, ZnCO3, Cu2S and Cu2(OH)2CO3 was dissolved in water, dilute HCl and 0.01 m organic acids (tannin, salicylic acid and citric acid) at 1 atm and 20° C. Duplicate samples of one gram each were placed in 50 ml of solvent with shaking once each day for one month at pH's of 2, 4 and 6. The pH of all the solutions was maintained by periodic addition of either HCl or NaOH. Comparing the results at pH 6, a value observed under surface conditions, the organic acids had a higher metal ion concentration because of their complexing ability. Results at pH 6 in ppm of the metal ions are shown below: For example the Fe concentration dissolved from pyrite in water was 0.02 ppm but 2.3–4.3 in the organic acids. From malachite 0.2 ppm Cu were dissolved by water but 25–1550 ppm by the organic acids. In general Cu minerals seem to be more soluble in organic acids than the Pb, Zn and Fe minerals. The different solution power of the organic acids within the experiments seems not to be caused by the crystallography of the minerals tested. Further there apparently is no preferential complexing of an organic acid with respect to a distinct anion or cation of the minerals. The experiments therefore show, that it is difficult to predict exactly which organic acid is most effective in dissolving minerals. However the experiments should apply to natural weathering conditions of ore minerals and may aid in understanding metal ion transport. For example the origin of the high Cu concentration in the sedimentary “Kupferschiefer” are more easily explained by weathering and transport of Cu in the form of organo-metallic complexes than by reaction with only water. The Cu content in organic acids is much higher than in water and the Cu concentration in the solutions now is not so strongly controlled by the solubility of Cu-cabonates and phosphates. |
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