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Development of New Geochemical Exploration Methods for Critical Metals Deposits
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Development of New Geochemical Exploration Methods for Critical Metals Deposits

A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Mineral Exploration Methods and Applications".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 5384

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Jérémie Melleton

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Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM), 3 Avenue Claude Guillemin, 45000 Orléans, France
Interests: exploration geochemistry; trace elements in minerals; geoenvironmental models; granite-related critical metal ore deposits; partial melting; Variscan orogeny
Dr. Maarit Middleton

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Environmental Solutions, Geological Survey of Finland, Lähteentie 2, P.O.Box 77, 96101 Rovaniemi, Finland
Interests: biogeochemistry for mineral exploration; compositional data analysis; mineral prospectivity modeling
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Dear Colleagues,

As ore deposits located near the surface have been more or less all extracted, new exploration methods should help for the discovery of new economic targets located deeper in the crust or under allochthonous cover. This Special Issue aims to gather original contributions presenting new developments, or case studies, in geochemical exploration based on mineral, soil, till, sediment, water, snow, gas or plant geochemistry. Articles on the topic of geochemical data handling and statistical analyses are also greatly appreciated.

Dr. Jérémie Melleton
Dr. Maarit Middleton
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Minerals is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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Keywords

  • geochemical exploration
  • biogeochemistry
  • indicator minerals
  • hydrogeochemistry
  • soil, sediment, till or gas geochemistry
  • statistical data analysis
  • critical metals

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Rare Earth Elements Enrichment in the Upper Eocene Tošići-Dujići Bauxite Deposit, Croatia, and Relation to REE Mineralogy, Parent Material and Weathering Pattern
by Nenad Tomašić, Andrea Čobić, Matija Bedeković, Slobodan Miko, Nikolina Ilijanić, Nikola Gizdavec and Mario Matošević
Minerals 2021, 11(11), 1260; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/min11111260 - 12 Nov 2021
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Tošići-Dujići bauxite deposit, situated in Dalmatian inlands, Croatia, contains minor remaining bauxite reserves. The deposit lies on Lower Eocene foraminiferal limestone and is covered by Upper Eocene Promina sediments. Bauxite samples were analyzed for textural, mineralogical, and geochemical features in order to determine [...] Read more.
Tošići-Dujići bauxite deposit, situated in Dalmatian inlands, Croatia, contains minor remaining bauxite reserves. The deposit lies on Lower Eocene foraminiferal limestone and is covered by Upper Eocene Promina sediments. Bauxite samples were analyzed for textural, mineralogical, and geochemical features in order to determine absolute REE abundances and their relation to mineralogy, as well as to devise the origin of REE enrichment and to trace weathering and bauxitization paths of the parent material. The samples show total REE abundances up to 3500 mg/kg with significant HREE enrichment in some cases. All samples are gibbsitic with hematite and anatase as major phases. Kaolinite occurs in most of the samples, and goethite, böhmite, and nordstrandite are minor phases. Monazite-(Ce) and xenotime-(Y) were identified as detrital REE minerals as well as authigenic florencite-(Ce). In the REE most abundant sample, REE are most likely bound to Fe- and Ti-oxide phases as suggested by correlation analysis. Chemical weathering proxies show intensive weathering. Geochemical and textural data imply that the REE enrichment is influenced by intensive weathering (CIA 97.87–99.26) of detrital material, and also by possible deposition/redeposition of residual material potentially derived and mobilized from various sedimentary rocks of the area. Full article
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Regional Geochemical Anomaly Identification Based on Multiple-Point Geostatistical Simulation and Local Singularity Analysis—A Case Study in Mila Mountain Region, Southern Tibet
by Cheng Li, Bingli Liu, Ke Guo, Binbin Li and Yunhui Kong
Minerals 2021, 11(10), 1037; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/min11101037 - 24 Sep 2021
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The smoothing effect of data interpolation could cause useful information loss in geochemical mapping, and the uncertainty assessment of geochemical anomaly could help to extract reasonable anomalies. In this paper, multiple-point geostatistical simulation and local singularity analysis (LSA) are proposed to identify regional [...] Read more.
The smoothing effect of data interpolation could cause useful information loss in geochemical mapping, and the uncertainty assessment of geochemical anomaly could help to extract reasonable anomalies. In this paper, multiple-point geostatistical simulation and local singularity analysis (LSA) are proposed to identify regional geochemical anomalies and potential mineral resources areas. Taking Cu geochemical data in the Mila Mountain Region, southern Tibet, as an example, several conclusions were obtained: (1) geochemical mapping based on the direct sampling (DS) algorithm of multiple-point geostatistics can avoid the smoothing effect through geochemical pattern simulation; (2) 200 realizations generated by the direct sampling simulation reflect the uncertainty of an unsampled value, and the geochemical anomaly of each realization can be extracted by local singularity analysis, which shows geochemical anomaly uncertainty; (3) the singularity-quantile (S-Q) analysis method was used to determine the separation thresholds of E-type α, and uncertainty analysis was carried out on the copper anomaly to obtain the anomaly probability map, which should be more reasonable than the interpolation-based geochemical map for geochemical anomaly identification. According to the anomaly probability and favorable geological conditions in the study area, several potential mineral resource targets were preliminarily delineated to provide direction for subsequent mineral exploration. Full article
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