The material classed as “mineral matter” in coal embraces crystalline mineral materials as
well as a range of inorganic elements that occur in non-crystalline form. This review outlines …

This paper provides a brief summary of the history, development and variety of applications
of electron microscopy techniques to analyze coals, organic-rich shales, and carbonaceous …

The material described as “mineral matter” in coal encompasses dissolved salts in the pore
water and inorganic elements associated with the organic compounds, as well as discrete …

Founded on the work of the renowned Advanced Combustion Engineering Research
Center, the authors document and integrate current knowledge of the organic and inorganic …

The concentrations of major and trace inorganic elements in a succession of Permian coals
from the Gunnedah Basin, New South Wales, have been determined by X-ray fluorescence …

Environmental legislation has had significant impact on coal utilization, especially coal
combustion for power generation, in limiting emissions of potentially hazardous materials to …

The present state of the methods commonly used for inorganic and mineral matter
characterization in coal is described and summarized. The application of various separation …

Quantitative mineralogical analysis has been carried out on a series of nine coal samples
from Australia, South Africa and China using a newly-developed automated image analysis …

Calcium in coal can be classified into two parts: mineral matter and cationic metals
associated with organic matrix. Chemical leaching with aqueous ammonium acetate …

To ensure accurate and reliable automated mineralogical analysis of a sample, it is a
common practise to use chemically derived elemental proportions to validate the …