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Timothy li
asked a question related to Mineralogy

How can I measure trace element in a mineral sample

such as quartz or beryl?
Question 22 answers
Apr 7, 2016
Currently trying to measure the trace element of mineral
specimen using an EDXRF. But the currently issue i face
is the interference and diffraction peaks. Is there any
modification which can suppress this matter?

Best regards

Timothy Li

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Daisy Joseph · Sep 29, 2017

Answer
As far as interference is concerned,one one subtract
the pure element peak from the intensity ratios. But if
you are carrying out XRf ,how does diffraction come in
the picture.

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Nabonita Das
asked a question related to Mineralogy

How this automated mineralogy technique can be

used in sinter plant of iron ore?
Question 5 answers
Aug 28, 2017
I am Nabonita Biswas from Tata Steel,Currently involved
in the characterisation of ore, sinter and pellet.

The quality of sinter in Tata Steel is largely monitored by

its chemistry and physical properties . The typical time lag
is several hours to few days between sampling and
reporting of results.

As the sinter properties are extremely well correlated with

the mineralogical content we would like to explore the
possibility of using this technique as one of the tool for
quality monitoring purpose.

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Marek Dosbaba · Sep 8, 2017

Answer
Dear Nabonita, I am an application specilist for
automated mineralogical system called TESCAN
TIMA. If you would be willing to discuss any specifics
of iron ore charateriation just let me know. We can
even test some samples for you.

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Rohit Kumar
asked a question related to Mineralogy

How to identify mineralogical constitution of a

material in powder form
Question 10 answers
Aug 8, 2017
I have to find out mineralogical constitution of fly ash

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Harald G. Dill · Aug 8, 2017

Answer
Dear Dr. Kumar,

the mineralogical composition is determined in the

most appropriate way using XRD. SEM-EDX, EMPA ...
are no longer applicable as the sample has been
crushed and grinded.

Best regards

[Link]

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Bjørn Eske Sørensen

asked a question related to Mineralogy

EBSD sphalerite, chalcopyrite, isocubanite,

pseudosymmetry
Question 6 answers
Jul 13, 2017
We are trying to do ebsd on sphalerite with alteration to
isocubanite and exulations of chalcopyrite.

During collection and indexing we noticed the following:

1. Sphalerite gave good patterns, whereas chalcopyrite

and isocubanite har poor patterns. We started with low
accelleration voltage but changed to 20kv which gave faint
bu indexable EBSP of isocubanite. We will attempt ion
milling to get better patterns.

2. Indexing with chalcopyrite gave sphalerite mostly taken

as chalcopyrite with pseudosymmetry related flase twins.

3. Indexing with Sphalerite only worked also for the areas

with isocubainte which is logic as they are isostructural.

4. We have still to achieve high quality patterns of the

chalcopyrite but we hope to be able to distinguish it from
the sphalerite and isocubanite and be able to distinguish
the pseudosymmetric orientations.

Does anyone have experience on this. I noted some work

on chalcopyrite isostructures in the thin film ressearch, but
I did not find naything directly on sphalerite/chalcopyrite
EBSD.

Thanks for any contributions

Bjørn Eske Sørensen

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Bjørn Eske Sørensen · Jul 31, 2017

Answer
hi Vladimir

We Ar ions 2 kev for 20 mins, but I dont think you

need that much time. I dont remember gas flow rates
but I think the standard recommended by the supplier.
for EBSD you need a high tilt angle because low
angles gives to much etching effect.

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Soad Raafat
asked a question related to Mineralogy

What is the name of this rock and does the ratio of

glauconite affect the nomenclature?
Question 12 answers
Jul 25, 2017
Is this Quartz arenite? knowing that the ratio of quartz not
95% if we consider that glauconite is a part of the
framework.

Quartz: white grains, glauconite: green grains

greensand_pm13-[Link] · 93.93 KB

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Harald G. Dill · Jul 26, 2017

Answer
Dear Mr. Rafaat,

you have already pointed the way to the correct

classification by yourself by naming the basic
arenaceous rock "quartz arenite". As glauconite is part
of the clast community, I would at the very end call it a
glauconitic quartz arenite or glauconite-bearing quartz
arenite. It is a pure descriptive way which I prefer to
any classification scheme which has any genetic
connotation.

Best regards

[Link]

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Zheng-hang Lv
asked a question related to Mineralogy

How to explain the negative Ce anomaly in pegmatite

zircon?
Question 22 answers
Jul 25, 2017
I have read plenty of documents but no similar case found.
And i am sure my test results are correct, because the
same results are obtained from different laboratory and
many zircon samples from different pegmatites show
negative Ce anomaly. Zircons with negative Ce anomaly
are basically hydrothermal origin or altered by
hydrothermal which exsolved from pegmatite-forming
melt.

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The figure show a typical negative Ce anomaly and REE

tetrad in zircon from quartz core. Rea line represents
metamict and altered zircon identified by CL, Raman and
discordant U-Pb age, blue line represents primary zircon.

I have consider the feature is inherited from the source of

oceanic sedimentary as proposed by [Link], however,
not all zircons from different textural zones of the same
pegmatite show negative Ce anomaly, for example, the
zircons from blocky microcline zone show positive Ce
anomaly. Now, I try to explain it to decoupling of Ce (IV)
from the tricalent REEs by preferential incorporation
and/or adsorption of Ce in Fe/Mn oxides/oxyhydroxides
which coexist with zircon in the same zone and is
characterized by positive Ce anomaly.

I think and expect you may have a better explaination.

Thanks!

[Link] · 85.03 KB

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Harald G. Dill · Jul 25, 2017

Answer
Dear Dr. Lv:

it is often much better to do not investigate the same

effect by different laboratories but try and find different
methods to either sustantiate the results of an
analysis, in this case REE, or discard a theory on the
origin of a mineral. In this case I point to two
independent methods. Why not making use of fluid
inclusions and considering the morphology of zircon
grains which is within a certain interval of temperature
strongly correlated to T changes? You can find such
morphological studies in my list of publications
available on the Researchgate Server.

I wish you much success

[Link]

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Michael Issigonis
asked a question related to Mineralogy

How this volcanic rock could have formed?

Question 11 answers
Jul 20, 2017
It is a hard (steel nail will not scratch it), probably silicified
green rock with euhedral plagioclase phenocrysts (some
showing twinning), other elongated phenocrysts now
altered to chlorite and peculiar rounded fragments with
thick silicified rims. Most rounded fragments are circular,
some egg-shaped. Quartz and chlorite make up most of
the visible parts of the rounded fragments.

This rock has been transported by ice and was found in

glacial till.

IMG_7437.jpg · 2.57 MB
IMG_7441.jpg · 2.48 MB

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Roberto Bencini · Jul 21, 2017

Answer
Hi, Michael, what a fantastic rock have you found this
time!

Orbicular Porphyry, apparently.

There is an oldish publication that tackes the issue of

orbicular structures
[Link]
t_046_1_pages_053_074.pdf

I surely simplify by saying that your rock originates by

some convective movements in the magmatic
chamber before the melt was erupted.

It would be fascinating to find where the boulder

originates from (bed-rock outcrop of the same rock).

Best regards

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Asoori Latha
asked a question related to Mineralogy

Why certain granites doent contain any accessory

minerals?
Question 9 answers
Jul 6, 2017
I have observed that sometimes a granite, by its essential
mineralogy, doesn't contain any kind of accessory
minerals.

No single grain of opaque/ transparent accessory minerals

which normally occurs in a granite.

what makes them so cleared off with respect to any kind of

accessory minerals?

Is it original composition of magma?

or

is it due to certain physico-chemical conditions/ tectonic

setting?

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Jeremy Preston · Jul 20, 2017

Answer
I also find it hard to believe there are absoluetly no
accessory phases present. Granites are by definition
coarse grained rocks, so I suppose it would be
possible to cut a single thin section and not see any
accessory phases. How many sections have been
examined? Phases such as apatite can be very
difficult to spot using standard light microscopy, so it
might be worth putting a few sections under an SEM
and looking at them in backscatter mode....you might
be surprised what jumps out at you!

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Ratiba Kared
asked a question related to Mineralogy

The spectra of traces and rare earths of eucrites and

diogenites.
Question 2 answers
Jun 19, 2017
Hello to all,

I would like references on the interpretation of the spectra

of minerals ( Traces and REE) of eucrites and diogenites.

N.B: The mineral analyzes were performed at the laser

ablation ICP-MS.

Thank's in advance

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Ratiba Kared · Jul 17, 2017

Answer
Thank you so much M. Olivier.

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Jaeguk Jo
asked a question related to Mineralogy

Anyone who give me some advise about measuring of

the 2:1 clay minerals and jarosite on SEM or TEM
analysis?
Question 14 answers
Jul 5, 2017
I did check the ammonium containg two different samples
such as 2:1 clay mineral and jarosite in XRD, FTIR,
EA/IRMS analysis .

and I have a plan to SEM analysis for 2:1 clay mineral

(i.c. Montmorillonite, nontrite, saponite etc..) and jarosite.

How to distinguish between above the two samples on

the SEM images, for mineral structure or texture?

And also, how to estimate that dioctahedral or

trioctahedral type for 2:1 clay mineral on TEM analysis? I
don't know whether it is possible or not.

Of course, i confrimed at 060 peak in XRD analysis..

anybody, teach me above my current issues..

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Jean-Claude Ngaruye · Jul 11, 2017

Answer
XRD is efficient

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Diana Carolina Paz Jaramillo

asked a question related to Mineralogy

Somebody can help me with the meaning of

amphiboles without Ti. Thanks
Question 6 answers
Jun 14, 2017
I´m working with EPMA data from calcic amphiboles, and I
noted that the content of Ti isn´t exist or is < 0.1apfu

This features have a special meaning?

Thanks for the answer.

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James S. Beard · Jun 15, 2017

Answer
Low-Ti calcic amphiboles, actinolite, for example, are
common in medium and low-grade metamorphic
rocks. To really answer this question though, I would
need to know exactly what rock types you are looking
at.

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Saleh Ibrahim Bute

asked a question related to Mineralogy

Can a granite be named titanate-biotite granite?

Question 9 answers
Jun 13, 2017
A granitic rock that I am working on, the mafic minerals are
dominantly titanate and biotite in thinsection. The titanate
is wide spread, with rims of opaque minerals possible
ilmenite and magnetite; and overgrowth of allanite.

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Asoori Latha · Jun 14, 2017

Answer
Any common accessory mineral of granite exceeds
5% of modal volume you can name the rock
accordingly as biotite granite/ hornblende granite etc.

Similarly any mineral of significance is present which

is not that regular according to normal mineral
assemblage of the granite, you can mention it in the
rock nomenclature though it doesn't constitute ~5%,

for example garnet bearing granite, tourmaline granite,

rebeckite granite ..etc.

If the sphene is primary magmatic origin you can

definitely mention it in the rock nomenclature....like
titanate bearing granite

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Martin Monik
asked a question related to Mineralogy

Any idea of what the tubular fossils in the pictures

might be?
Question 12 answers
May 30, 2017
The material is probably Cretaceous chert (or jasper? - in
the picture on the right there are probably intrusions of
agate) from the contact with submarine volcanic rocks
from the Flysch Zone of Western Carpathians (Moravia,
Czech Republic). But they have been found as artefacts
on a Magdalenian site nearby...My idea is that the material
is the result of silica intruding flysch sediments with
fossils...

fossils in [Link] · 2.18 MB

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Paul Enos · Jun 5, 2017

Answer
Thanks for the update on Callianassa nomenclature
and the reference by Wayne Pryor, whom I greatly
respect. Bob Folk, whose fixation on fecal pellets
suggests anal retention, likes to cite a treatise by Rev,
William Buckland (1784-1856) as the best thing ever
written on fecal pellets, at least prior to Pryor.

I certainly overstated the case for Callianassa, as I

lamely cautioned ("too specific"). In addition to
expelling pellets with their excavated sediment, they
may also pack them in some of the dead-end side
tunnels in their complex burrows in muddy sediment,
as shown by Gene Shinn's burrow casts:

Shinn, E.A., 1968, Burrowing in recent lime sediments

of Florida and the Bahamas: Jour. Paleontology, v. 42,
p. 879-894. (see p. 884)

Also illustrated in: Enos, Paul and Perkins, R.D.,

1977, Quaternary sedimentation in south Florida:
Geol. Soc. America, Mem 147, p. 1-130 (see p. 71)

Their advanced architecture included latrines.

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Ahmed Salih Mohammed

asked a question related to Mineralogy

How the geotechnical properties (soil properties)

affected by the mineralogical properties of the soils?
Question 16 answers
Jun 2, 2017
Could please help?

Thanks,

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Anoop Kumar Srivastava · Jun 3, 2017

Answer
You will find huge literature on this issue, here is one
PDF for first hand information ...

Mineralogy and Soil [Link] · 270.22 KB

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Saleh Ibrahim Bute

asked a question related to Mineralogy

I do not think Watsons Model, will be applicable on the

temperature of crystallization of hydrothermal
zircons?
Question 4 answers
May 22, 2017
Using Ti for the calculation, various geochemical process
might add or subtract Ti in zircons, as inclusions,
overgrowths, mantled e.t.c. Ti-rich mineral or fluids can be
incorporated, thus does give any meaning on the
crystallization history. What is the opinion of experts in this
field.

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Marcos García-Arias · May 31, 2017

Answer
The Ti-in-zircon model of Watson was modelled for
crystallized magmas saturated in Ti (i.e., rutile-
bearing). Outside these conditions, the
geothermometer is not valid.

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Yihe Li
asked a question related to Mineralogy

Could carbon isotope be analyzed directly from

graphite inclusion kept in garnet mineral?
Question 8 answers
May 8, 2017
I have a graphite–sillimanite–garnet gneiss sample,
consisting of garnet + K-feldspar + plagioclase + quartz +
biotite + sillimanite + graphite, with accessory zircons and
ilmenite. The graphite are widespread in the garnet as
inclusions.

I wonder if there any methods could analyze the carbon

isotope of the graphite?

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Yihe Li · May 9, 2017

Answer
Thank you so much Mr. Kenneth M Towe. The
geological age of my sample is 2.0 Ga, which is
located at the northern margin of Yangtze Craton,
South China. Indeed, I wonder that if the graphite kept
in the garnet derived from organism.

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Trisrota Chaudhuri
asked a question related to Mineralogy

If I don't have modal mineralogy of starting material

for trace element modelling, having only bulk rock
composition, can I use CIPW norm instead?
Question 8 answers
Apr 26, 2017
For trace element modelling, we need modal mineral
abundance of the starting material to calculate bulk Kd.
Supposing we have only whole rock composition of the
starting material, can we use nornative mineralogy
calculated from bulk rock composition to compute the bulk
Kd?

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Mesrar Laila · May 5, 2017

Answer
In my opinion, using the mineralogy a petrographic
microscope analysis give a good results.

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Ji-Qiang Liu
asked a question related to Mineralogy

Why some melt inclusions in plagioclase have much

higher silica?
Question 4 answers
Apr 25, 2017
when I study the evolution of barck-arc basin magma, we
find some melt inclusions in plagioclase have much higher
silca than matrix glass from andesite,why?

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Felipe Orellana-Rovirosa · Apr 25, 2017

Answer
Hello Ji Qiang,

I liked your question, but I don't have a good

answer.

Could you perhaps clarify a space-progression as

forearc, arc, backarc with regards to the chemical
abundances? How significant and consistent or
universal is the possible progression? there should be
some space ordering relation.

Felipe

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Syafiqah Anuar
asked a question related to Mineralogy

Does anyone know the range of the standard value for

Loss on Ignition if the gold ore was characterized as
carbonaceous gold ore?
Question 4 answers
Apr 9, 2017
I have been working on research about gold
characterization so, I got a few questions regarding on my