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🏅 We are pleased to announce that Minerals MDPI will be granting the #Travel #Award to two junior scientists. The applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee consisting of senior scholars from the Minerals Editorial Board. 🏅This award provides financial support for the winners to attend an international conference in the field of natural mineral systems, mineral resources, mining, and mineral processing to be held in 2025, in order to hold a presentation, present a poster, or both. 👉 Find out more at the following Link: https://lnkd.in/dWE4kA5g

🌟 Material and Technical Analysis of La Inmaculada by Francisco Pacheco🌟 👉 The article explores material and technical analysis of Francisco Pacheco's painting "La Inmaculada," housed in the Archbishop’s Palace in Seville. Pacheco (1564-1654), a renowned Spanish painter, is known for his treatise on painting El Arte de la Pintura written in 1649, and by founding of an art school in Seville (Spain). The painting depicts the Virgin Mary in a new iconography of the Immaculate Conception, characterized by white and blue garments, standing on a half-moon, and surrounded by symbols of purity. Through non-invasive techniques like ultraviolet fluorescence, infrared reflectography, and X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, the study uncovers the the original pigments and later retouches, as well as preparatory drawing and colour modelling, illuminating Pacheco's artistic process and guiding conservation process. Original materials identified include typical Seville clay preparation, lead white, yellow and red earth pigments, lead–tin yellow, vermilion, azurite, smalt, a copper-based green, umber, and bone black. Additionally, modern pigments from later interventions such as titanium and zinc whites, chrome green, and cadmium yellow were also identified. The preparatory drawing is precise with almost no pentimenti, characteristic for the artist. This analysis offers profound insights into Pacheco's artistic techniques and provides a foundation for future comparisons with his other works. 📜 ✍ Anabelle Kriznar, Javier Moreno-Soto, Antonio Gamero Osuna, Agustín Martín de Soto, Francisco José Ager and Miguel Ángel Respaldiza 📜 Read/Download paper at 👉 https://lnkd.in/gPse55-F 🏫 Universidad de Sevilla 🏫 Centro Nacional de Aceleradores (CNA) Follow 👉 Minerals MDPI ⚒

#Feature #Systematic #Review #Paper in Minerals MDPI 🌟 Sensor Technologies for Safety Monitoring in Mine Tailings Storage Facilities: Solutions in the Industry 4.0 Era 🌟 📜 ✍ Carlos Cacciuttolo Vargas, Valentina Guzmán Moreno, Patricio Catriñir Jeldres and Edison Atencio Castillo 📜 Read/Download paper at 👉https://lnkd.in/gdRVBc9W 🏫 Universidad Católica de Temuco 🏫 Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha 🏫 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso Follow 👉 Minerals MDPI ⚒

🌟 The Effects of Surface Lignite Mines Closure on the Particulates Concentrations in the Vicinity of Large-Scale Extraction Activities †🌟 👉 After the closure of lignite mining and electricity generation activities in the region of Western Macedonia, Greece, the concentration of particulates in the atmosphere will reach the typical levels for rural areas of Southern Europe, regardless of what the mines’ land rehabilitation program would consist of 📜 ✍ Pavloudakis Francis, Chariton Sachanidis and Christos Roumpos 📜 Read/Download paper at 👉 https://lnkd.in/dUtmkcEr 🏫 University of Western Macedonia 🏫 Public Power Corporation of Greece Follow 👉 Minerals MDPI ⚒

#Feature #Review #Paper in Minerals MDPI 🌟 Are Clay Minerals Systematically the Products of Aqueous Alteration in Cosmic Bodies? 🌟 📜 ✍ Abderrazak EL ALBANI, ibtissam chraiki, Hasnaa Chennaoui Aoudjehane, Mohamed GHNAHALLA, Fatima Abdelfadel, Ahmed Abd Elmola, Olabode BANKOLE, Julie Ikouanga, Anna El Khoury, Claude Fontaine, El Hafid Bouougri, Frances Westall and Alain Meunier 📜 Read/Download paper at 👉 https://lnkd.in/d5exwnvz 🏫 Université de Poitiers 🏫 University of Hassan II Casablanca 🏫 IBN ZOHR UNIVERSITY 🏫 The James Hutton Institute 🏫 Synchrotron SOLEIL 🏫 Cadi Ayyad University 🏫 Centre national de la recherche scientifique-Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire Follow 👉 Minerals MDPI ⚒

🌟 Metal Lability and Mass Transfer Response to Direct-Planting Phytostabilization of Pyritic Mine Tailings 🌟 👉 Highlight: The effects of organic matter (OM) on metal(loid) lability during phytostabilization in acid mine tailings showed OM mobilized Cr, reduced Zn mobilization, and had no effect on Pb sequestration. 📜 ✍ Corin Hammond, Robert Root, Raina Maier and Jon Chorover 📜 Read/Download paper at 👉 https://lnkd.in/dT2qD76F 🏫 University of Arizona Follow 👉 Minerals MDPI ⚒

🌟 Isotopic Signatures of Microbial Mg-Carbonates Deposited in an Ephemeral Hyperalkaline Lake (Central Spain): Paleoenvironmental Implications 🌟 👉 Highlights: 1.      δ13C and δ 18O values typify an alkaline lake highly enriched in DIC 2.      δ13C of intracellular carbonates range between -2.5 and -6‰ 3.      EPS pools have broader variations in δ13C than in δ18O 4.      Dialyzed EPS are more depleted in 13C than in 18O 📜 ✍ María E. Sanz-Montero, Pablo del Buey Fernández, Óscar Cabestrero Aranda and Mónica Sánchez-Román 📜 Read/Download paper at 👉 https://lnkd.in/d6JeHgDY 🏫 Universidad Complutense de Madrid 🏫 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) Follow 👉 Minerals MDPI ⚒

🌟 A Review of the G4 “Tin Granites” and Associated Mineral Occurrences in the Kivu Belt (Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo) and Their Relationships with the Last Kibaran Tectono-Thermal Events🌟 👉 Discussion and Conclusion. Such importance of useful minerals associated to granitic intrusions are not abondant around the world. Our hypothesis considers a remobilisations of the previous granitic intrusions (G1, G2 and G3) which benefit to the enrichment of the G4 mineralized fluids. The Kivu Belt (KVB) as part of the Kibaran belts contains a large part of the world reserves of industrial minerals such as cassiterite, wolframite, and molybdenite. Furthermore, up to 70% of the world reserves of strategic minerals such as those of the columbite group are likely to be found in this region. Despite its economic interest, this region is little known in relation to its geodynamic evolution and its metallogeny. reviews the detections of Noachian igneous rocks and provides guidance for future missions including a possible mid-air deployed helicopter mission to unravel the composition and formation of the martian crust 📜 ✍ Michel Villeneuve, Nandefo Wazi, kalikone christian and Andreas Gärtner 📜 Read/Download paper at 👉 https://lnkd.in/dkm_2yQR 🏫 Aix-Marseille Universityé 🏫 Université Officielle du Sud Kivu 🏫 Département des Sciences de la Terre de l’Université du Burundi 🏫 UOB-Université Officielle de Bukavu 🏫 Museum für Mineralogie und Geologie Follow 👉 Minerals MDPI ⚒

✋ Bones and teeth are recorders of palaeoenvironments. The greatest challenge to taphonomists is differentiating original biological and secondary geological alteration of fossils. 🌟 Vertebrate Taphonomy and Diagenesis: Implications of Structural and Compositional Alterations of Phosphate Biominerals 🌟 📜 ✍ Yannicke Dauphin 📜 Read/Download paper at 👉 https://lnkd.in/dFH-Xaqb 🏫 Museum national d'Histoire naturelle Follow 👉 Minerals MDPI ⚒

🌟 Optimization of Water Leaching of Chlorides from Aluminum Salt Slag 🌟 👉The study analyzed optimized water leaching conditions for aluminum salt slag, proposing a sustainable treatment route with up to 92% chloride salt recovery 📜 ✍ Artur B. Teixeira, Weslei Ambrós, Carlos H. Sampaio, Fortunato L. Q. Raposo, Irineu A. S. De Brum and Josep O. Moncunill 📜 Read/Download paper at 👉 https://lnkd.in/dia5sUm6 🏫 Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul 🏫 Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya 🏫 Universidade Púnguèè Follow 👉 Minerals MDPI ⚒