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Critical Mineral Materials for a Low-Carbon Energy System
The transition towards low-carbon energy technologies based on renewable energy sources will be accompanied by an increasing demand for raw mineral materials in the coming decades. The goal of the present stud...
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Sources of Metals for the Rudny Altai VMS Deposits: Results of High-Precision MC-ICP-MS Lead Isotope Study
Abstract—The Rudny Altai metallogenic province, which is concordant to the structures of the eponymous terrane and located in the Central Asian orogenic belt (CAOB), is one of the largest volcanic massive sulfide...
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Exploration of Overlapped Endogenous Mineralization Using the Results of Paleovolcanic Reconstructions
Problems of exploring blind and overlapped deposits are currently very urgent. Geological and prospecting works can be highly efficient only during complex studies that enable one to identify structural units ...
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The Mineral Resource Sectors of BRICS Countries: Mutual Supplies and Regulation of the Global Market of Mineral Raw Materials
The mineral resource sectors of BRICS countries complement each other perfectly; one of the possible areas for their cooperation in this field is the expansion of mutual trade in mineral commodities and metals...
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Using Lineament Analysis to Identify Patterns in the Localization of Au Mineralization in the Taryn Gold Field in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
The development of geographic information systems and their growing application in Geology provide a unique opportunity to optimize the process of lineaments identification on images of the Earth’s surface usi...
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The Role and Importance of the Mineral Resource Complex for National Economies: Solid Minerals
As the economy grows, it becomes more difficult for the emerging economies to maintain a high stable rate of economic development, primarily due to the increase in the production of mineral raw materials, expa...
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The Global Factors of Lead–Zinc Ore Formation
The tectonic evolution of the Earth is the leading factor that accounts for the uneven distribution of lead and zinc reserves through geologic time. The cyclic changes in lead–zinc ore formation productivity r...
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Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide Deposits Enriched in Gold
Volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits contain not only Cu, Zn, and Pb, but Sb, Bi, Te, Se Ag, Co, other metals, and variable amounts of Ag and Au. In some of these, gold reserves exceed 100 t, while the gold g...
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The Tendencies of the Development of the Mineral-Resources Sector at the Turn of the Century
Important tendencies in development of the world mineral-resources sector at the beginning of the 21st century were an increase in production and consumption of mineral materials differentiated by types of met...
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Epochs of zinc–lead ore formation in the geological history of the Earth
Analysis of the regularities of the distribution of mineral resources in the Earth’s geological history allows one to optimize a strategy of prospecting for deposits. On the basis of an original database of Pb...
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Different-scale tendencies of the evolution of the composition of volcanogenic pyrite deposit ores
The changing contents and ratios of certain primary and secondary elements in the composition of volcanogenic pyrite deposit ores reveal two tendencies that have different scales of their manifestation in geol...
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Vanadium mineralization in ore of the Vihanti massive sulfide base-metal deposit, Finland
A series of vanadium oxides—shcherbinaite, karelianite, kyzylkumite, coulsonite, and berdesinskiite—was found in association with pyrrhotite in pyrite-pyrrhotite ore from the Paleoproterozoic Vihanti massive s...
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Volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits of ophiolite associations
Volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits in ophiolite complexes are usually attributed to the Cyprus type. They associate with basaltic volcanics that are formed in mid-ocean or back-arc spreading centers and muc...
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Precambrian volcanic-associated massive sulfide deposits
Phanerozoic volcanic-associated massive sulfide deposits (VMSD) were subdivided into the Kuroko, Besshi, Cyprus, and Ural types, which differ in their ore geochemistry and mineralogy, in their composition of v...
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Volcanogenic massive sulfide and sedimentary-exhalation lead-zinc ore formation during the Earth’s history
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Proportions of massive-sulfide and strata-bound lead-zinc mineralization during the Earth’s evolution
Massive-sulfide base-metal deposits of the volcanic rock association and strata-bound Pb-Zn deposits in terrigenous and carbonate-terrigenous formations contain over 70% of the total world reserves of Pb and Z...
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Rare minerals from massive sulfide ores: Typomorphic features and geochemical trend
