Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0772229
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Minerals replacement reactions: understanding mineral formation under hydrothermal conditions. Many geological processes involve the transformation of one mineral into another. By understanding molecular-level reaction mechanisms, we can predict how fast reactions progress, and what the final product will look like. This project focuses on a reaction mechanism called 'coupled dissolution-reprecipitation', in which the parent mineral is dissolved into a thin layer of fluid at the reaction front, and the daughter mineral subsequently precipitates. This concept will be applied to sulfide minerals for the first time. The results have many applications for the Australian mining industry, in particular in improving the efficiency of the processing of Ni- and Au-ores.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2007
End Date: 12-2009
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $305,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Geology | Solid State Chemistry | Mineralogy And Crystallography | Ore Deposit Petrology
