The porosity and permeability of sandstone and carbonate reservoirs (known as reservoir
quality) are essential inputs for successful oil and gas resource exploration and exploitation …

Contamination of aquatic environments as a consequence of deep metal mining for Pb, Zn,
Cu, Cd, and Fe is of widespread international concern. Pollution resulting from metal mining …

QemSCAN is a scanning electron microscope (SEM) system, initially designed to support
the mining industry by providing rapid automated quantitative mineral analyses. The system …

The labyrinthine world of arsenic minerals has piqued the curiosity of many researchers in
mineralogy, geochemistry, chemistry, and environmental sciences. Arsenic was known to …

A wide range of existing mineralogical and geochemical methodologies such as optical
microscopy, X-ray diffraction, manual scanning electron microscopy, ICP-MS and INAA have …

Historic mine sites are a major source of contamination to terrestrial and river environments.
To demonstrate the importance of determining the significance of point and diffuse metal …

Non-sulphide zinc deposits are important potential resources of zinc and other metals, which
require accurate characterisation of the mineralogy, texture and grade for successful …

The physicochemical properties of a (nano) mineral are strongly affected by its formation
processes, and thus, may indicate the (nano) mineral's formation environment and …

The complex mix of organic and inorganic components present in urban and rural soils and
sediments potentially enable them to provide highly distinctive trace evidence in both …

The aim of this study was to assess the levels of heavy metal pollution in the clay/silt fraction
(< 63 μm fraction) of marine sediments from Quintero Bay, Chile. For this, sediment samples …