• Journal of the Mineralogical Society of Korea
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.201-213
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• 2003

The adsorption property and ability of domestic zeolites for some heavy metal ions (Ag, Pb, Cr, Cu, Zn, Mn), which may cause a serious environmental problem in industrial wastewater, were evaluated on ore unit through a series of adsorption experiments together with careful examinations of mineral composition and properties of the zeolites. Though the adsorption behavior basically took place in the form of a cation exchange reaction, the higher CEC value does not necessarily to imply the higher adsorption capacity for a specific heavy metal. A general trend of the adsorption selectivity for heavy metals in the zeolites is determined to be as follow: $Ag\geq$Pb>Cr,Cu$\geq$Zn>Mn, but the adsorption properties of heavy metal ions somewhat depend on the species and composition of zeolite. Clinoptilolite tends to adsorb selectively Cu in case of Cr and Cu, whereas heulandite prefers Cr to Cu. A dominant adsorption selectivity of the zeolite ores for Ag and Pb is generally conspicuous regardless of their zeolite species and composition. The zeolite ores exhibit a preferential adsorption especially for $Ag^{+}$ so as not to regenerate when treated with $Na^{+}$ . In the adsorption capacity for heavy meta ions, the zeolites differ in great depending on their species: ferrierite>clinoptilolite>heulandite. Considering the CEC value of mordenite, the mordenite-rich ore appears to be similar to the clinoptilolite ore in the adsorption capacity. The adsorption capacity for heavy metals is not positively proportional to the CEC values of the zeolites measured by the exchange reaction with ammonium ion. In addition, the adsorption capacity roughly tends to depend on the zeolite contents, i.e., the grade of zeolite ore, but the trend is not consistent at all in some ores. These may be caused by the adsorption selectivity for some specific heavy metals, the presence of possible stacking micro-faults and natural cations such as K hardly to exchange in the zeolite. Considering the economic availability and functional effectiveness as natural zeolite resources, clinoptilolite ores could be applicable to utilize the domestic zeolites for the removal of heavy metals.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.586-589
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• 2001

In this study, phosphate was produced through the solublization of hydroxyapatite and rock phosphate by Pantoea agglomerans, and it was examined the possibility of solublizing insoluble phosphate salt by immobilized P. agglomerans on Ca-alginate bead as support. 520mg/L of phosphate was solublized when P. agglomerans was cultured in HY meclium at $30^{\circ}C$, pH7, 100rpm, during 48hours culture. And solublized phosphate amount was 86.09mg/L when hydroxyapatite in the HY medium was exchanged to rock phosphate. In case of being used immobilized P. agglomerans. 740mg/L of phosphate was solublized in the HY medium, during 120hrs in the same condition. And 182mg/L of phosphate was solublized when rock phosphate was added instead of hydroxyapatite.

• Mineral and Industry
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.1-16
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• 2003

수천 년 전부터 인간생활에 이용되어온 일라이트-운모는 다른 광물자원에 비하여 사용량은 많지 않지만, 요업, 도료, 종이, 건축용 재료, 화장품 소재 및 전자부품과 전기 재료 등 여러 산업 분야에 널리 사용되고 있다. 일라이트-운모는 광물학적으로 같은 계열의 광물군임에도 불구하고 산출상태, 입도 및 용도의 차이에 따라 다른 광물자원으로 취급되고 있다. 특히 국내에서 일라이트는 용어상의 혼란과 불명확한 법정 등록광종 때문에 효율적인 자원관리와 연구개발이 곤란한 실정이다. 그러므로 일라이트를 비롯한 점토광물 자원에 대한 광업법규상의 개선과 제도적 정비가 시급히 요구된다. 국내에서 개발되고 있는 일라이트-운모의 광석 유형은 그 광물상과 산출상태에 따라 페그마타이트상 백운모, 운모편암상 백운모, 납석상 일라이트 및 점토상 일라이트로 구분된다. 일라이트와 운모는 서로 다른 용도로 사용되고, 그 용도에 따라 그 품위 및 품질 개념이 다르다. 일라이트-운모 광석의 품위 및 품질 면에서 가장 기본적인평가방식은 (1) 육안 및 편광현미경 관찰, (2) X-선회질 분석 및 (3) 화학분석인 것으로 생각된다. 특히 리트벨트법을 응용한 X-선회질 정량분석법은 일라이트의 품위를 산정하는데 유력한 수단이 될 수 있을 것으로 여겨진다. 국내 일라이트-운모 자원의 자원잠재성과 부가가치를 향상시키기 위해서는 광석에 대한 정확한 품위 평가를 바탕으로 가장 적절한 이용 분야를 모색해야 할 것으로 판단된다.

• Mineral and Industry
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.1-15
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• 2004

장석은 복잡다단한 광물학적 특성에도 불구하고 그 물질적 이해와 용도 측면에서의 단순성 때문에 관련 산업 부문에서 부가가치 향상이 잘 이루어지지 않고 있는 실정이다. 현재 전 세계적으로 10위권 내의 생산 수준을 유지하는 국내산 장석의 광석 유형은 그 관물상과 산출상태에 따라 페그마타이트상 장석, 반화강암질 및 우백질 화강암상의 장석으로 구분 될 수 있다. 현재 국내에서 개발되고 있는 장석들로는 일반적으로 반화강암질 유형의 광석이 가장 흔하다. 이 유형의 광체들은 흔히 알바이트화 작용이나 K-부화를 수반하는 열수변질 작용을 받은 양상을 보이는 것이 특징이다. 광물특성 상으로는 K-장석에 속하는 광체들이 Na-장석 유형들 보다 상대적으로 흔하고 대체적으로 그 부존 규모도 큰 것으로 나타난다. 장석의 부가가치 향상을 위해서는 그 품위를 화학조성에만 의존하지 말고 광물조성 단위로 이해하는 방식이 요구된다. 일반적으로 이 광물자원의 요업적 용도 특성상, 광물특성 평가에서 가장 주요한 기준이 되는 사항은 화학조성, 특히 알칼리 조성, $AI_{2}O_{3}$ 함량 및 철분의 함유도인 것으로 판단된다. 그렇지만 앞으로 그 수요가 확장될 전망이 있는 충진재 용도로 사용될 경우에는 이 같은 화학적 특징보다는 장석광물의 조성과 제반 물성적 특성에 그 품질이 의존될 것으로 여겨진다. 이에 따라 장석 광석의 화학조성과 물성은 기본적으로 장석의 광물상과 조성에 의존된다는 지식기반 하에서, 장석의 품위는 물론 품질 특성 평가에 있어서도 화학조성에만 의존하지 말고 그 광물상과 광물특성도 고려해서 평가하는 지혜가 요구된다.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.27-35
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• 2010

Rare earth alloys and compounds are the raw materials for the manufacture of advanced materials. Although domestic monazite ores have been found, there are some difficulties in recovering rare earth from these ores. Rare earth ores are found in few countries and these countries put an embargo on the export of rare earth ores for the protection of their industry. We gathered some information on the hydrometallurgical and pyrometallurgical processes to recover rare earths from bastnasite, monazite, and xenotime which consist of 95% of the total rare earth ores. Since rare earth with the purity more than 6N is needed for use in advanced materials, some separation methods such as fractional crystallization, precipitation, ion exchange, and solvent extraction were introduced.

• Economic and Environmental Geology
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.265-276
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• 1986

The Jangseong manganese deposits are supergene oxidation products of hydrothermal rhodochrosite. The manganese ore veins are developed in the Dongjeom Quartzite, and Dumudong Formation. The deposits consist of primary manganese carbonate ores in the deeper part and manganese oxide ores near the surface. The manganese carbonate ores are composed of rhodochrosite and small amounts of sulfides. The manganese oxide ores are composed of birnessite, nsutite, todorokite, chalcophanite, and pyrolusite. Microscopic, X-ray diffraction, infrared, thermal and EPMA analyses have been made for manganese oxide minerals and other associated minerals. The manganese minerals were formed in the following sequence. Rhodochrosite$\rightarrow$birnessite$\rightarrow$todorokite$\rightarrow$nsutite-pyrolusite. Thermochemical properties of chalcophanite were studied by methods of X-ray powder diffraction, infrared absorption spectroscopic analysis and dehydration experiments. Chalcophanite changes to $4.8{\AA}$ phase at $90{\sim}110^{\circ}C$. Chemical analyses show that the manganese oxide minerals generally have high concentration in Zn.

• The Journal of the Petrological Society of Korea
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.156-170
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• 1994

The talc ore deposits can be divided into chloritic and dolomitic ores according to mineral assemblages. The former is mainly composed of chlorite and talc accompanied with dolomite, muscovite and opaque mineral, and the latter of dolomite and talc with serpentine, calcite and magnesite in places. Talc was originated from chlorite and serpentine. Carbonate minerals were formed either directly from the introduced hydrothermal solution or secondarily as a by-product of steatitization of chlorite and serpentine. The process of talc formation may be governed by the chemical composition of the host rocks and the amount and/or chemical composition of the hydrothermal solution which may be different in places. However, the representative reactions producing talc from chlorite and serpentine are as follows : (1) chlorite+$Mg^{++}+Si^{4+}+H_2O$=talc, (2) chlorite+$Mg^{++}+Si^{4+}+Ca^{++}+CO_2+O_2+H_2O$=talc+ dolomite+ magnesite, and (3) serpentine +$Mg^{++}+Fe^{++}+Si^{4+}+Ca^{++}+CO_2+H_2O$=talc+dolomite. The reactions indicate that the carbonate minerals can be formed when the hydrothermal solution have high $fO_2$ and $fCO_2$. The steatitization might be proceeded by the hydrothermally metasomatic reaction between chlorite schist or chlorite gneiss intercalated in the granitic gneiss and hydrothermal solution accompanied to the wet granitization.

• Journal of the Mineralogical Society of Korea
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• v.19 no.4 s.50
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• pp.337-346
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• 2006

The Jinwon Pb-Zn deposit is located within the Precambrian Youngnam Massif. Ore mineralization at the Jinwon deposit occurred in quartz veins that filled fractures in the Hongjesa granite. Mineral paragenesis can be divided into two stages(stage I and II). Stage I, at which the precipitation of major ore minerals occurred, is further divided into two substages with paragenetic time based on minor fractures and discernible mineral assemblages: substage la is characterized by pyrite, arsenopyrite ($28.4{\sim}30.3$ atomic % As), pyrrhotite, magnetite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite ($13.1{\sim}16.0$ mole % FeS) assemblages; substage $I_a$ is represented by main precipitation of Zn, Pb minerals and is characterized by sphalerite ($15.1{\sim}19.0$ mole % FeS), galena, miargyrite, argentile assemblages. Stage II is economically barren quartz veins. Thermodynamics study is used to estimate changes in chemical conditions of the hydrothermal fluids during stage I mineralization, the main ore deposition period at the Jinwon hydrothermal system. The range of estimated sulfur fugacity ($fs_2$) was from $10^{-7}\;to\;10^{-16}$ atm and oxygen fugacity ($fo_2$) was in the range of $10^{-32.8}{\sim}10^{-38.5} atm$. Carbon dioxide fugacity ($fco_2$) was $<10^{-0.6} atm$.

• Journal of the Mineralogical Society of Korea
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.279-292
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• 2015

New occurrences of large-scaled Zn-Pb deposits are recently found in the Danjang-myeon, Milyang. They are skarn-type deposits which replaced the intercalated limestone beds in the Jeonggaksan Formation. This study aims at characterizing occurrences, mineralogy, and chemistry of Zn-Pb ores and skarn minerals. Skarn orebodies are mainly found in 3 areas, named Gukjeon-ri, Gorye-ri, and Gucheon-ri orebodies, where sphalerite found as main ore mineral in 200-300 m in height and amount of galena increases as altitude does. Ores are dark grey to dark green in color and closely related with clinopyroxene zone. They occur with hedenbergite, grossular, actinolite, epidote, and small amounts of axinite, calcite, and quartz. Main ore mineral is sphalerite which includes tiny spotted grains of galena and chalcopyrite and becomes rich in grade in association with clinopyroxene and epidote. FeS contents in sphalerite show relatively wide range between 1.53 and 23.07 mole%, whose contents intend to increase towards biotite granite known as ore-related igneous rocks. CdS contents are in the range of 0.22-0.93 mole%, showing decrease tendency from southwest (Gukjeon-ri) to northeast (Gucheon-ri). Zn-Pb deposits developed in Danjang-myeon reveal decrease in temperature with increase of altitude, leading to gradual changes in compositions of ore and skarn minerals.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.3-8
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• 2012

In the points of the environmental conservation and the recirculating utilization of limited resources, it is very important to recover valuable metals like Au, Ag, Pd, Cu, Sn, Ni, Co, and Li used as industrial raw materials from urban ores. From now, many processes have been developed for recovering the valuable metals contained in urban ores and some of them have been operated commercially. In the paper, pyrometallurgical processes developed for reclaiming valuable metals from urban ores will be briefly introduced.