• Journal of the Mineralogical Society of Korea
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.11-19
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• 2017

Reddish brown clay-silt sediments covered granitoid weathering crust in the Jangdongri area, Naju, Korea. Mineralogical and geochemical properties of the ~2 m sediment section were investigated. The sediments were composed mainly of quartz (50%) and clay minerals (45%) with minor contents of K-feldspar, goethite, hematite, and gibbsite. The clay minerals were illite, illite-smectite mixed-layers, vermiculite, hydroxy-Al vermiculite, kaolinite, and halloysite. Mineral composition varied little through the section with the minor upward enrichment of plagioclase and chlorite. Abundant illitic clay minerals indicated the remote source of the sediments because clays derived by granite weathering in Korea were dominated by kaolin minerals. A comparison with the mineral composition of Asian dust (Hwangsa) suggested that plagioclase and K-feldspar disappeared by chemical weathering after deposition, resulting in the quartz and clay-rich sediments. Plagioclase and chlorite altered to kaolin and vermiculite, respectively. Goethite and hematite derived by the weathering of iron-bearing minerals stained the sediment to reddish brown color. The mineralogical and geochemical properties of the reddish brown clay-silt sediments were consistent with those of eolian deposits identified in Korea, supporting eolian origin of the Jangdongri sediments, requiring future confirmation including age dating and isotopic analysis.

• Journal of the Mineralogical Society of Korea
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.115-127
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• 2009

Mineral quantification was performed on sediments of the Ulleung basin by X-ray powder diffraction and the computer software based on Rietveld quantification method. The sediments are dominated by amorphous opal-A with quartz, feldspars, micas, clays, calcite, and pyrite. The opal-A shows iterative variation in abundance with increasing burial depth. In addition, the relative abundance of opal-A is coincident with abundance of organic carbon contents, indicating that the Ulleung sediment consists mostly of amorphous silica derived from organism in the pelagic environment. Upward increase in the abundance of opal-A is markedly shown in the cores located in the slope region. On the other hand, there is a distinct tendency that the abundance of calcite is inversely proportional to that of opal-A. This indicates that the abundance of opal-A increases during the rise of sea level. Also, the fall of sea level lowers the abundance of opal-A.

• Journal of the Mineralogical Society of Korea
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.9-21
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• 2012

Six serpentine mines are found in South Korea. We investigated occurrence, characteristics and origin of constituent minerals of Bibong serpentine mine in Chungcheongnam-do. We also analyzed the properties of serpentine minerals using XRD, XRF, SEM/EDS, FT-IR, EPMA and polarized microscope. The serpentinite of Bibong mine occurs as intruded body within the Precambrian metasedimentary rocks. Various minerals such as serpentine, forsterite, pyroxene, tremolite, magnetite, chlorite, mica, talc and dolomite are occurre. Five distinctive mineral assemblage types are observed in the serpentinite: (A) serpentine-forsterite, (B) serpentine, (C) serpentine-chlorite (vermiculite), (D) serpentine-tremolite, (E) tremolite-chlorite. Lizardite and antigorite are mainly occurred as serpentine minerals and chrysotile is partly included. From the study of mineral compositions and occurrence of serpentinite body, serpentine formed by hydrothermal alteration of ultramafic rock consisting mainly of forsterite, and altered minerals such as chlorite and tremolite subsequently formed by secondary hydrothermal alteration.

• Mineral and Industry
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.1-17
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• 2000

우리나라 건강과 환경 관련 산업 분야에서 많이 활용되고 있는 황토는 삶의 질이 향상됨에 따라 그 수요가 급증할 것으로 예상된다. 그러나 황토에 대한 전문적인 지식이 관련 산업 분야에 축적되어 있지 않기 때문에 제대로 활용되고 있지 못하다. 황토는 점토광물과 산화-수산화 철-알루미늄 광물로 주로 구성되어 있지만, 그 종류와 양적인 비는 산출 지역에 따라 다르고, 심도에 따라서도 달라진다. 이에 따라 물리-화학적특성이 달라짐은 물론이다. 황토는 제대로 활용하기 위해서는 황토의 법정광물 지정과 매장량 조사, 광물학적 특성조사, 물리-화학적 특성조사와 같은 기본적인 연구를 철저히 한후, 이용 산업분야와 연계적인 연구를 통하여 활용을 극대화할 수 있을 것으로 생각된다.

• Feed Journal
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• v.4 no.5 s.33
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• pp.107-112
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• 2006

동물영양에 있어 광물질은 동물체의 골격을 구성 할 뿐만 아니라 체액의 삼투압 및 산 엽기 평형상태 조절, 세포막의 투과성 조절, 신경 근육 간 자극전달매개, 각종 효소의 구성 및 활성촉진, 에너지 발생작용 조절 등 매우 중요한 역할을 하는 영양소이다. 체내 기능을 중심으로 한 전통적인 분류방법은 크게 필수 광물질, 준 필수 광물질, 비 필수 광물질 및 중독광물질로 구별하는데, 각각의 광물질은 연구결과에 의해 소속 군이 변화되거나 경계가 불분명해지기도 하나, 대부분 양적인 요구량 측면에서 다량 광물질(칼슘, 인, 나트륨, 염소, 마그네슘, 칼륨 및 황)과 미량광물질(구리, 철, 망간, 몰리브덴, 아연, 크롬, 불소, 셀레늄, 실리콘)로 나뉘어 진다. 최근 이러한 영양생리학적 요구수준과 결부된 분류 외에 약리학적 또는 특수 기능적 측면을 중심으로 일정 광물질에 대한 관심이 확대되고 있으며, 친환경농업과 관련되어 환경에 대한 부담을 최대한 경감시킬 수 있는 광물질 제재의 개발과 연구가 활발하게 진행되고 있는 실정이다.

• Korean Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.199-212
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• 2023

Diffusion is a powerful tool to understand geological processes recorded in terrestrial rocks as well as extraterrestrial materials. Since the diffusive exchange of elements or isotopes may have occurred differently in the solar nebula (high temperature and rapid cooling) and on the parent bodies (fluid-assisted thermal metamorphism at relatively low temperature), it is particularly important to model elemental or isotopic diffusion profiles within the mineral grains to better understand the evolution of the early solar system. A numerical model with the finite difference method for the fast grain boundary diffusion was established for the exchange of elements or isotopes between constituent minerals in a closed system. The fast grain boundary diffusion numerical model was applied to 1) ²⁶Mg variation in plagioclase of an amoeboid olivine aggregate (AOA) from a CH chondrite and 2) Fe-Mg interdiffusion between chondrules, AOA, and matrix minerals in a CO chondrite. Equilibrium isotopic fractionation and equilibrium partitioning were also included in the numerical model, based on the assumption that equilibrium can be reached at the interfaces of mineral crystals. The numerical model showed that diffusion profiles observed in chondrite samples likely resulted from the diffusive exchange of elements or isotopes between the constituent minerals. This study also showed that the closure temperature is determined not only by the mineral with the slowest diffusivity in the system, but also strongly depends on the constituent mineral abundances.

• Journal of the Mineralogical Society of Korea
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• v.19 no.1 s.47
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• pp.39-48
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• 2006

X-ray diffaction and chemical analysis were used for mineralogical characteristics of weathering grade of granite and biotite gneiss. Granite is composed mainly of quartz, albite, and minor K-feldspar and biotite gneiss is biotite, quartz, albite. Illite and kaolinite increased in granite, and vermiculite and halloysite in biotite gneiss as increasing weathering process. The percentages of $Al{2}O_{3}$ increase but that of CaO, $Na_{2}O,\;K_{2}O$ decrease as the weathering process. $Fe_{2}O_{3}$ different from granite and biotite gneiss.

• Korean Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.397-407
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• 2022

Mineralogical analysis of the bedrock of the Gobi Desert in southern Mongolia, the source of Asian dust, was conducted to trace the geological origin of the constituent minerals of Asian dust. The bedrock of the source of Asian dust consists of Paleozoic volcanics and volcaniclastic sedimentary rocks, Paleozoic granitic rocks, and Mesozoic sedimentary rocks. Paleozoic volcanics and volcaniclastic sediments lithified compactly, underwent greenschist metamorphism, and deformed to form mountain ranges. Mesozoic sedimentary rocks fill the basin between the mountain ranges of Paleozoic strata. In comparison to Paleozoic volcanic and sedimentary rocks, Mesozoic sedimentary rocks have lower contents of chlorite and plagioclase, but high contents of clay minerals including interstratified illite-smectite, smectite, and kaolinite. Paleozoic granites characteristically contain amphibole and biotite. Compared with the mineral composition of bedrock in source, Asian dust is a mixture of detrital particles originating from Paleozoic and Mesozoic bedrocks. However, the mineral composition of Mesozoic sedimentary rocks is closer to that of Asian dust. Less lithified Mesozoic sedimentary rocks easily disintegrated to form silty soils which are deflated to form Asian dust.

• Journal of the Mineralogical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.2 s.52
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• pp.83-89
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• 2007

XRD, HRPD and SEM were used for mineralogical characterization of fault clay in fracture zone from Ipsil. Variations of color in fault clay exhibit significant mineral composition difference. Fault clays from Ipsil are composed mainly of smectite, laumontite, and quartz. Laumontite, a distinct fault clay in Ipsil fault, might be resulted from alteration of bed rock in fracture zone based on the result that no laumontite was found near fault rock. Fault clays from Ipsil are composed mainly of smectite.

• Journal of the Mineralogical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.213-222
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• 2007

Changes of turbidity and suspended solid concentration of inflow tend to be very similar in Andong and Imha dam, and show significant effect on the amount of rainfall. Concentrations of suspended solid and turbidity in Imha are higher than these of Andogn dam, and Banbyon have higher values than that of Yongjeon stream in Imha dam. There is no difference in size distribution and mineral composition of the suspended particles in Andong and Imha dam. The turbidity-causing materials are composed of vermiculite. illite, kaolinite, quartz and albite. X-ray diffraction analysis shows that turbidity-causing materials are have similar mineralogy between Andong and Imha Dam, but they have different abundance.