[HTML][HTML] Modes of occurrence of elements in coal: A critical evaluation

S Dai, RB Finkelman, D French, JC Hower… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Coal, containing all the elements that are present in nature and more than 200 minerals, has
a complex chemical structure, making it one of the most complex geological materials …

Coal measure metallogeny: Metallogenic system and implication for resource and environment

Y Li, S Pan, S Ning, L Shao, Z Jing, Z Wang - Science China Earth …, 2022 - Springer
Coal, coal measure gas, coal conversion to oil and gas, and coal-based new materials are
reliable guarantees for stable energy supply and economic and social development in …

[HTML][HTML] The importance of minerals in coal as the hosts of chemical elements: A review

RB Finkelman, S Dai, D French - International Journal of Coal Geology, 2019 - Elsevier
Coal is a complex geologic material composed mainly of organic matter and mineral matter,
the latter including minerals, poorly crystalline mineraloids, and elements associated with …

Coal as a promising source of critical elements: Progress and future prospects

S Dai, RB Finkelman - International Journal of Coal Geology, 2018 - Elsevier
Coal is a resource primarily used for electric power generation, and currently supplies 41%
of global electricity needs. Coal can also be considered as an economic source of …

[HTML][HTML] Organic associations of non-mineral elements in coal: A review

S Dai, JC Hower, RB Finkelman, IT Graham… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Coal, one of the most complex geological materials, consists of organic and mineral matter,
the latter including crystalline minerals, non-crystalline mineraloids, and elements with non …

A review study of rare Earth, Cobalt, Lithium, and Manganese in Coal-based sources and process development for their recovery

D Talan, Q Huang - Minerals Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
The world's majority predominantly relies on foreign sources for supplying critical minerals.
This renders the countries susceptible to supply chain disruption and urges them to develop …

Germanium enrichment in sphalerite with acicular and euhedral textures: an example from the Zhulingou carbonate-hosted Zn (-Ge) deposit, South China

K Luo, A Cugerone, MF Zhou, JX Zhou, GT Sun… - Mineralium …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Carbonate-hosted Pb–Zn deposits frequently contain significant amounts of critical
metals such as germanium in sphalerite. However, the textural and chemical controls …

Arsenic evolution as a tool for understanding formation of pyritic gold ores

Y Xing, J Brugger, A Tomkins, Y Shvarov - Geology, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Arsenic (As) and gold (Au) are closely associated in many gold deposits, both being
hosted in Fe-sulfide minerals (pyrite, marcasite, and arsenopyrite), partly because As …

Application of self-organizing maps to coal elemental data

N Xu, W Zhu, R Wang, Q Li, Z Wang… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding the modes of occurrence of elements in coal is important, not only to help
properly evaluate the impacts of potentially toxic elements on the environment and human …

[HTML][HTML] Germanium speciation in experimental and natural sphalerite: Implications for critical metal enrichment in hydrothermal Zn-Pb ores

W Liu, Y Mei, B Etschmann, M Glenn… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
The critical metal germanium (Ge) is recovered as a by-product of mining other commodities,
such as zinc and thermal coal. We investigated the Ge incorporation mechanism in …