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Picromerite K2mg(SO4)2 • 6H2O C 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, Version 1
Picromerite K2Mg(SO4)2 • 6H2O c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Monoclinic. Point Group: 2/m. Equant crystals, to 5 cm, showing {001}, {010}, {100}, {110}, {011}, {201}, {111}, several other forms; incrusting other salts; massive. Physical Properties: Cleavage: On {201}, perfect (synthetic). Hardness = 2.5 D(meas.) = 2.028 (synthetic). D(calc.) = 2.031 Soluble in H2O, taste bitter. Optical Properties: Transparent. Color: Colorless or white; pale red, pale yellow, gray due to impurities; colorless in transmitted light. Luster: Vitreous. Optical Class: Biaxial (+). Orientation: Y = b; X ∧ a =–1◦. Dispersion: r> v,weak. α = 1.461 β = 1.463 γ = 1.476 2V(meas.) = 47◦540 Cell Data: Space Group: P 21/a (synthetic). a = 9.066 b = 12.254 c = 6.128 β = 104◦470 Z=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Synthetic. 3.71 (100), 4.06 (95), 4.16 (85), 3.06 (70), 2.964 (60), 3.16 (40), 2.813 (40) Chemistry: (1) (2) SO3 39.74 39.76 MgO 10.40 10.01 K2O 23.28 23.39 Cl 0.28 H2O 26.87 26.84 −O=Cl2 [0.06] Total [100.51] 100.00 • (1) Leopoldshall, Germany. (2) K2Mg(SO4)2 6H2O. Mineral Group: Picromerite group. Occurrence: Principally occurs in oceanic bedded salt deposits; a volcanic sublimate in fumaroles; in a sulfate-rich hydrothermal ore deposit. Association: Halite, anhydrite, kainite, epsomite (oceanic salt deposits); hohmannite, metavoltine, metasideronatrite (Chuquicamata, Chile). Distribution: From Vesuvius, Campania, Italy. In Germany, in Saxony-Anhalt, from the Leopoldshall-Stassfurt district, and at Aschersleben; large crystals from the Ellers mine, Neuhof, near Fulda, Hessen; in the Adolfsgl¨uck mine, Schwarmstedt, Lower Saxony. -
Mirabilite Na2so4 • 10H2O C 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, Version 1
Mirabilite Na2SO4 • 10H2O c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Monoclinic. Point Group: 2/m. Crystals short to long prismatic, with complex form development, also crude, to 10 cm, in interlocking masses; crystalline, granular to compact massive, commonly as efflorescences. Twinning: Rare on {001} or {100}. Physical Properties: Cleavage: On {100}, perfect; on {010} and {001}, good to fair. Fracture: Conchoidal. Hardness = 1.5–2.5 D(meas.) = 1.464 D(calc.) = 1.467 Quickly dehydrates to th´enarditein dry air; very soluble in H2O, taste cool, then saline and bitter. Optical Properties: Transparent to opaque. Color: Colorless to white; colorless in transmitted light. Streak: White. Luster: Vitreous. Optical Class: Biaxial (–). Orientation: X = b; Z ∧ c =31◦. Dispersion: r< v,strong, crossed. α = 1.391–1.394 β = 1.394–1.396 γ = 1.396–1.398 2V(meas.) = 75◦560 Cell Data: Space Group: P 21/c (synthetic). a = 11.512(3) b = 10.370(3) c = 12.847(2) β = 107.789(10)◦ Z=4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Synthetic. (ICDD 11-647). 5.49 (100), 3.21 (75), 3.26 (60), 3.11 (60), 4.77 (45), 3.83 (40), 2.516 (35) Chemistry: (1) (2) SO3 25.16 24.85 Na2O 18.67 19.24 H2O 55.28 55.91 Total 99.11 100.00 • (1) Kirkby Thore, Westmoreland, England. (2) Na2SO4 10H2O. Occurrence: Typically in salt pans, playas, and saline lakes, where deposition may be seasonal, and bedded deposits formed therefrom; rarely in caves and lava tubes; in volcanic fumaroles; a product of hydrothermal sericitic alteration; a post-mining precipitate. -
Salt Crystallization in Porous Construction Materials I Estimation of Crystallization Pressure
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by EPrints Complutense Salt crystallization in porous construction materials I Estimation of crystallization pressure A. La Iglesiaa,*, V. Gonzalezb, V. L6pez-Acevedoc, C. Viedmac , Inslituto de Geologia Economica del CSIC, Facultad de Ciencias Ge% gicas, UCM, E·280411 Madrid. Spain b Deparlamento de Quimica, ETSI, Agronomos, UPM, E·28IJ40 Madrid, Spain , Deparlamenlo de Cristalografia y Mineralogia, Facultad de Ciencias Ge% gicas, UCM. E·28040 Madrid, Spain Abstract The crystallization process of soluble salts inside the natural and artificial porous materials partially immersed in different saline solutions has been studied, This procedure is used to simulate the conditions of exposure to salt weathering in which foundations and lower walls of building structures are within the zone of capillary rise of saline ground water. Crystallization pressures that can develop in the samples, which are a function of the pore size and salt-solution interfacial tension, have been calculated and are compared with experimental values of the materials tensile strength. since both these parameters allow the prediction of porous materials behaviour against salt weathering. Keywords: Salt weathering; Porous media; Salt crystallization; Crystallization pressure 1. Introduction The problem of crystallization pressure of salt was first studied by Correns [6J, who presented The crystallization process of soluble salts in a workable equation based on the Riecke principle porous materials can generate pressures inside the from which the pressure generated P versus salt pores sufficient to exceed the elastic limit of the supersaturation may be calculated: material, causing its breakage. -
The American Journal of Science
THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOIENOE. EDITOR: EDWARD S. DANA. ASSOCIATE EDITORS PROFESSORS GEO. L. GOODALE, JOHN TROWBRIDGE, H. P. BOWDITCH AND W. G. FARLOW, OF CAMBRIDGE, PROFESSORS O. C. MAHSH, A. E. VERRILL AND H. S. WILLIAMS, OF NEW HAVEN, PROFESSOR GEORGE F. BARKER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PROFESSOR H. A. ROWLAND, OF BALTIMORE, MR. J. S. DILLER, OF W ASHl~GTON. FOURTH SERIES. VOL. II-[WHOLE NUMBER, CLI!.] Nos. 7-12. JULY TO DEOEMBER, 1896. WITH SIX PLATES. NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT. 1896'. J. B. Pratt-Northupite, PirBsonite, etc. 123 , ART. ~V.-On Northupite; Pirs8onite, a new mineral j (}OI!flussite and IIanksite from Borax Lake, San Bernar dino County, Californi(t j by J. H. PRATT. INTRODUCTION. THE minerals to be described in this paper are from the remarkable locality of Borax Lake, San Bernardino County, California. They were broug-ht to the author's notice, in the fall of 1895, by Mr. Warren M. Foote of Philadelphia, who sent one of them, the northupite, tog-ether with some of the associ ated minerals, to the mineralogical laboratory of the Sheffield Scientific School, for chemical investigation. About the same time Mr. C. H. Northup of San Jose, CaL, sent some minerals from the same region to Prof. S. L. Penfield. Among them, gaylussite, hanksite and a third mineral, which has proved to be a new species, were identified. These same minerals were also observed among the specimens sent by Mr. Foote. Mr. Northup, in his letter of transmittal, stated that he had care fully saved all of the crystals of the new mineral, having observed that they were different from gaylnssite in habit, and that he believed they would prove to be a new and interesting species. -
Mineralogical Chemistry
View Article Online / Journal Homepage / Table of Contents for this issue 282 ABSTRACTS OF CHEMICAL PAPERS. Downloaded on 22 February 2013 Published on 01 January 1900 http://pubs.rsc.org | doi:10.1039/CA9007805282 Mineralogical Chemistry. Roumanian Petroleuws. By A LFONS 0. SALIGNY(Chem. Centy., 1900, 60 ; from Bul. Bozcmccnie, 8, 351 --365).-In the original paper, the physical and chemical properties of 12 kinds of Roumanian MINERALOGICAL CHEMISTRY View Article Online283 petroleum are described and tabulated. The flash points of the various fractions are given, and their suitability for use as burning oils is also discussed. These petroleums contain very variable amounts of volatile oils, and ethylisobutane and isopropane were found in the fractions boiling below 70”. E. w. w. Melonite from South Australia. By ALFREDJ. HIGGIN(Trans. Roy. Xoc. South Austdia, 1899, 23, 21 1-212).-This mineral, pre- viously only known from California, has now been found with quartz and calcite at Worturpa, South Australia. The thin lamells have a brilliant metallic lustre; the cleavage planes are silver-white to reddish- brown. H- 1.5 ; sp. gr., 7.6. Analyses I and IT: agree with the formula Ni,Te, (compare this vol., ii, 22). Te. Xi. Au. Insol. Total. I. 74.49 22.99 0.329 2.091 99.90 11. 71.500 21.274 0.018 7*319 100.11 Traces of bismuth and lead are present. On dissolving the mineral in nitric acid, the gold is left as bright spangles. L. J. S. Titaniferous Magnetites. By JAMESF. KENP(School of Mines Quart., 1899, 20, 323-356 ; 21, 56-65).-Titaniferous magnetites, with the exception of the occnrrences in sands, are almost invariably found associated with rocks of the gabbro type, and have originated by a process of segregation from the magma, The mineral, as a rule, contains vanadium, cbromium, nickel and cobalt, which together may amount to several per cent. -
Infrare D Transmission Spectra of Carbonate Minerals
Infrare d Transmission Spectra of Carbonate Mineral s THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM Infrare d Transmission Spectra of Carbonate Mineral s G. C. Jones Department of Mineralogy The Natural History Museum London, UK and B. Jackson Department of Geology Royal Museum of Scotland Edinburgh, UK A collaborative project of The Natural History Museum and National Museums of Scotland E3 SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V. Firs t editio n 1 993 © 1993 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht Originally published by Chapman & Hall in 1993 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1993 Typese t at the Natura l Histor y Museu m ISBN 978-94-010-4940-5 ISBN 978-94-011-2120-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-2120-0 Apar t fro m any fair dealin g for the purpose s of researc h or privat e study , or criticis m or review , as permitte d unde r the UK Copyrigh t Design s and Patent s Act , 1988, thi s publicatio n may not be reproduced , stored , or transmitted , in any for m or by any means , withou t the prio r permissio n in writin g of the publishers , or in the case of reprographi c reproductio n onl y in accordanc e wit h the term s of the licence s issue d by the Copyrigh t Licensin g Agenc y in the UK, or in accordanc e wit h the term s of licence s issue d by the appropriat e Reproductio n Right s Organizatio n outsid e the UK. Enquirie s concernin g reproductio n outsid e the term s state d here shoul d be sent to the publisher s at the Londo n addres s printe d on thi s page. -
1469 Vol 43#5 Art 03.Indd
1469 The Canadian Mineralogist Vol. 43, pp. 1469-1487 (2005) BORATE MINERALS OF THE PENOBSQUIS AND MILLSTREAM DEPOSITS, SOUTHERN NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA JOEL D. GRICE§, ROBERT A. GAULT AND JERRY VAN VELTHUIZEN† Research Division, Canadian Museum of Nature, P.O. Box 3443, Station D, Ottawa, Ontario K1P 6P4, Canada ABSTRACT The borate minerals found in two potash deposits, at Penobsquis and Millstream, Kings County, New Brunswick, are described in detail. These deposits are located in the Moncton Subbasin, which forms the eastern portion of the extensive Maritimes Basin. These marine evaporites consist of an early carbonate unit, followed by a sulfate, and fi nally, a salt unit. The borate assemblages occur in specifi c beds of halite and sylvite that were the last units to form in the evaporite sequence. Species identifi ed from drill-core sections include: boracite, brianroulstonite, chambersite, colemanite, congolite, danburite, hilgardite, howlite, hydroboracite, kurgantaite, penobsquisite, pringleite, ruitenbergite, strontioginorite, szaibélyite, trembathite, veatchite, volkovskite and walkerite. In addition, 41 non-borate species have been identifi ed, including magnesite, monohydrocalcite, sellaite, kieserite and fl uorite. The borate assemblages in the two deposits differ, and in each deposit, they vary stratigraphically. At Millstream, boracite is the most common borate in the sylvite + carnallite beds, with hilgardite in the lower halite strata. At Penobsquis, there is an upper unit of hilgardite + volkovskite + trembathite in halite and a lower unit of hydroboracite + volkov- skite + trembathite–congolite in halite–sylvite. At both deposits, values of the ratio of B isotopes [␦11B] range from 21.5 to 37.8‰ [21 analyses] and are consistent with a seawater source, without any need for a more exotic interpretation. -
Cement Render and Mortar and Their Damages Due to Salt Crystallization in the Holy Trinity Church, Dominicans Monastery in Cracow, Poland
minerals Article Cement Render and Mortar and Their Damages Due to Salt Crystallization in the Holy Trinity Church, Dominicans Monastery in Cracow, Poland Mariola Marszałek * , Krzysztof Dudek and Adam Gaweł Department of Mineralogy, Petrography and Geochemistry, AGH University of Science and Technology, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland; [email protected] (K.D.); [email protected] (A.G.) * Correspondence: [email protected] Received: 22 June 2020; Accepted: 17 July 2020; Published: 20 July 2020 Abstract: The investigations focused on the façade of the 17th-century Myszkowskis chapel at the 13th-century Church of the Holy Trinity in Cracow, Poland. Most of the chapel’s façade is made of rusticated limestone blocks, but its lower part is covered with cement render, and the basement consists of irregular pieces of limestone and sandstone, bound and partly replaced with cement mortar. The façade exhibited clearly visible damages: gray soiling of the surface, cracks, scaling, and efflorescence. The study presents characteristics of the cement render and mortar used for stone repair and/or substitution, as well as efflorescence from the lower part of the Myszkowskis chapel façade. The materials were analyzed with optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM-EDS), Raman microspectroscopy, X-ray diffractometry (XRPD), and mercury intrusion porosimetry. The analyses demonstrated that the render covering some of the decayed limestone blocks was prepared using Portland cement (residual clinker grains represent alite and belite) as a binding agent, mixed with crushed stone as an aggregate. The cement mortar consisted of rounded quartz grains, rock fragments, and feldspars in very fine-grained masses of calcite and gypsum, also containing relics of cement clinker (alite, belite, ferrite, and aluminate). -
United States Patent (11) 3,615,174
United States Patent (11) 3,615,174 72 Inventor William J. Lewis 3,342,548 9/1967 Macey....... A. 2319 X South Ogden, Utah 3,432,031 3/1969 Ferris........................... 209/166 X 21 Appl. No. 740,886 FOREIGN PATENTS 22, Filed June 28, 1968 45 Patented Oct. 26, 1971 1,075,166 4f1954 France ......................... 209/66 (73) Assignee NL Industries, Inc. OTHER REFERENCES New York, N.Y. Chem. Abst., Vol. 53, 1959, 9587e I & EC, Vol. 56, 7, Jy '64, 61 & 62. Primary Examiner-Frank W. Lutter 54 PROCESSFOR THE SELECTIVE RECOVERY OF Assistant Examiner-Robert Halper POTASSUMAND MAGNESUMWALUES FROM Attorney-Ward, McElhannon, Brooks & Fitzpatrick AQUEOUSSALT SOLUTIONS CONTAINING THE SAME 11 Claims, 4 Drawing Figs. ABSTRACT: Kainite immersed in brine in equilibrium con 52) U.S. Cl........................................................ 23138, verted to carnalite by cooling to about 10 C. or under. Car 209/11, 209/166,23191, 22/121 nallite so obtained purified by cold flotation. Purified carnal (5) Int. Cl......................................................... B03b 1100, lite water leached to yield magnesium chloride brine and B03d 1102, C01f 5126 potassium chloride salt. Latter optionally converted to potas 50 Field of Search............................................ 209/166,3, sium sulfate by reaction with kainite, or by reacting the carnal 10, 11; 23.19, 38, 121 lite with kainite. Naturally occurring brine concentrated to precipitate principally sodium chloride, mother liquor warm 56 References Cited concentrated to precipitate kainite, cooled under mother UNITED STATES PATENTS liquor for conversion to carnallite. A crude kainite fraction 2,479,001 8/1949 Burke........................... 23.191 purified by warm flotation and a crude carnallite fraction pu 2,689,649 9, 1954 Atwood.... -
The Mineralogy of the British Permian Evaporites
460 The mineralogy of the British Permian evaporites By F. H. STEWART Department of Geology, University of Edinburgh Summary. The occurrence of the minerals is reviewed. Consideration of their genesis leads to a tentative list of primary minerals, and of early diagenetie, later diagenetic and geothermal metamorphic, and late near-surface changes. N 1943 Professor Tilley recorded the occurrence of po]yhalite in the I rocks of the D'Arcy Exploration Company's E.2 borehole at Aislaby, near Whitby; this was the first published record of a potassium-bearing salt in British evaporites. The occurrence of rocks containing sylvine (Lees and Taitt, 1946) prompted further exploration by Imperial Chemical Industries and Fisons Ltd. after the war, and this showed the presence of large deposits of potassium ores in the Whitby region. There is now a considerable literature related to these, and it seems timely to give a short review of the mineralogy of the British Permian evaporites. The writer is most grateful to Fisons Ltd. who have kindly allowed him to use unpublished information from his study of their boreholes F.1 at Robin Hood's Bay, F.2 at Staintondale, F.3 at Little Beck, and F.4 at Hawsker, in the Whitby Scarborough district. The position of these and the other boreholes mentioned in this paper can be found in the map of Dunham (1960). Dist~'ibution of the minerals The evaporites occur in two principal areas east and west of the Pennine Hills. In the western area (the Vale of Eden, west Cumberland, and the Furness district of Lancashire), where four evaporite beds have been recognized (Hollingworth, 1942), the mineralogy is relatively simple; carbonates, anhydrite, and gypsum are the main constituents. -
Commodities, Part 5 Strontium, Sodium Sulfate, Trona (Soda Ash), Talc, Lithium, Summary Comments Safety Reminders
ME571/GEO571 Geology of Industrial Minerals Spring 2018 Commodities, Part 5 strontium, sodium sulfate, trona (soda ash), talc, lithium, summary comments Safety Reminders Commodity presentations—send me your powerpoints April 28 AIPG meeting and Field trip in afternoon (perlite mine or carbonatites) Research Projects presentation April 30 Finals, written Project due May 4 No class May 7 Strontium Strontium—introduction • Sr • 15th abundant element • does not occur naturally as an element, in compounds • No production in the United States since 1959 • celestite or celestine SrSO4 (same structure as barite) 56.4% Sr • strontianite SrCO3, 70.1% Sr Celesitite http://www.zeuter.com/~tburden Strontianite http://www.zeuter.com/~tburden Strontium and strontianite are named after Stronian, a village in Scotland near which the mineral was discovered in 1790 by Adair Crawford and William Cruickshank A critical mineral Strontium—uses • faceplate glass of color television picture tubes, 77% • ferrite ceramic magnets, 8% • pyrotechnics and signals, 9% – fireworks (red flame) – flares • other applications, 6% – refining zinc – optical materials Strontium—production USGS Mineral Yearbooks metric tons Strontium—geology • association with rocks deposited by the evaporation of sea water (evaporites) • igneous rocks • Brines • Barite and calcite must be removed— costly Sodium sulfate Sodium sulfate—introduction • disodium sulfate (Na2SO4), • inorganic chemical • Thenardite Na2SO4 • Hanksite Na22K(SO4)9(CO3)2Cl • Glauberite Na2Ca(SO4)2 Sodium sulfate—uses -
OCCURRENCE of BROMINE in CARNALLITE and SYLVITE from UTAH and NEW MEXICO* Manrr Loursp Lrnosonc
OCCURRENCE OF BROMINE IN CARNALLITE AND SYLVITE FROM UTAH AND NEW MEXICO* Manrr Loursp LrNosonc ABSTRACT Both carnallite and sylvite from Eddy County, New Mexico, contain 0.1 per cent of bromine. The bromine content of these minerals from Grand county, utah, is three times as great. No bromine was detected in halite, polyhalite, l5ngbeinite, or anhydrite from New Mexico. Iodine was not detected in any of these minerals. on the basis of the bromine content of the sylvite from New Mexico, it is calculated that 7,000 tons of bromine were present in potash salts mined from the permian basin during the period 1931 to 1945. INrnooucrroN The Geological Survey has previously made tests for bromine and iodine in core samples of potash salts from New Mexico.r Bromine was found to be present in very small amounts. No systematic quantitative determinations were made, nor was the presenceof bromine specificalry correlated with quantitative mineral composition. Sections of potash core from four recently drilled wells and selected pure saline minerals from Eddy County, New Mexico, together with two cores from Grand County, Utah, were therefore analyzed for their bromine and iodine content. The percentage mineral composition was then correlated with the bromine content. rt was found that bromine was restricted to carnall- ite and sylvite. fodine was not detected in any of the samples analyzed. If present, its quantity must be less than .00570. Brine and sea water are the present commercial sourcesof bromine in the United States, though both Germany and U.S.S.R. have utilized potash salts as a source of bromine.