Iron sulfide minerals

Depressants are reagents that selectively prevent the reaction between a coUector and a mineral, thus preventing its flotation. For example, sodium cyanide [143-33-9] depresses sphalerite [12169-28-7] (zinc sulfide) and pyrite [1309-36-0] (iron sulfide) but not galena. It thus enhances selective flotation of the galena. 

The disadvantage of this procedure is that the minerals maybe physically or chemically altered during burning. Eor example, the refractive index of clay minerals is changed the color, birefringence, and pleochroism of micas is altered carbonates are destroyed and the iron sulfides are oxidized to iron oxides. 

The SRC-II process, shown in Figure 2, was developed in order to minimise the production of soHds from the SRC-I coal processing scheme. The principal variation of the SRC-II process relative to SRC-I was incorporation of a recycle loop for the heavy ends of the primary Hquefaction process. It was quickly realized that minerals which were concentrated in this recycle stream served as heterogeneous hydrogenation catalysts which aided in the distillate production reactions. In particular, pyrrhotites, non stoichiometric iron sulfides, produced by reduction of iron pyrite were identified as being... 

SRB, a diverse group of anaerobic bacteria isolated from a variety of environments, use sulfate in the absence of oxygen as the terminal electron acceptor in respiration. During biofilm formation, if the aerobic respiration rate within a biofilm is greater than the oxygen diffusion rate, the metal/biofilm interface can become anaerobic and provide a niche for sulfide production by SRB. The critical thickness of the biofilm required to produce anaerobie conditions depends on the availability of oxygen and the rate of respiration. The corrosion rate of iron and copper alloys in the presence of hydrogen sulfide is accelerated by the formation of iron sulfide minerals that stimulate the cathodic reaction. 

Kase, K. (1972) Metamorphism and mineral assemblages of ores from cupriferous iron sulfide deposit of the Besshi mine, central Shikoku, Japan. J. Fac. Set U. Tokyo, Sec. 2, 18, 301-323. 

It is found that the dissolution of zinc sulfides occurs more rapidly when they are in contact with copper sulfide or iron sulfide than when the sulfides of these types are absent. This enhancement is brought about by the formation of a galvanic cell. When two sulfide minerals are in contact, the condition for dissolution in acidic medium of one of the sulfides is that it should be anodic to the other sulfide in contact. This is illustrated schematically in Figure 5.3 (A). Thus, pyrite behaves cathodically towards several other sulfide minerals such as zinc sulfide, lead sulfide and copper sulfide. Consequently, pyrite enhances the dissolution of the other sulfide minerals while these minerals themselves understandably retard the dissolution of pyrite. This explains generally the different leaching behavior of an ore from different locations. The ore may have different mineralogical composition. A particle of sphalerite (ZnS) in contact with a pyrite particle in an aerated acid solution is the right system combination for the sphalerite to dissolve anodically. The situation is presented below ... 

Copper conversion is accomplished by a pyrometallurgical process known as smelting. During smelting the concentrates are dried and fed into one of several different types of furnaces. There the sulfide minerals are partially oxidized and melted to yield a layer of matte, a mixed copper-iron sulfide, and slag, an upper layer of waste. 

In Chapter 3 we described the possible external sources of energy required for life. Here we shall assume at first that the most primitive form was not light but the chemical energy stored in unstable minerals. Such minerals were the metals and metal excess sulfides and iron sulfide in their reactions with water or hydrogen sulfide to produce hydrogen (see Wachtershauser in Further Reading) or were stores in the out of balance of states of non-metals such as S /H2S. 

To run the simulation, we decouple acetate from carbonate, and sulfide from sulfate, and suppress the iron sulfide minerals pyrite and troilite (FeS), which are more stable than mackinawite, but unlikely to form. We set the fluid composition, including an amount of HS small enough to avoid significantly supersaturating mackinawite, and define the rate law for the sulfate reducers. The procedure in REACT is... 

Ostwald s step rule holds that a thermodynamically unstable mineral reacts over time to form a sequence of progressively more stable minerals (e.g., Morse and Casey, 1988 Steefel and Van Cappellen, 1990 Nordeng and Sibley, 1994). The step rule is observed to operate, especially at low temperature, in a number of min-eralogic systems, including the carbonates, silica polymorphs, iron and manganese oxides, iron sulfides, phosphates, clay minerals, and zeolites. 

To set up the simulation, we use the thermodynamic dataset from the calculation in Section 18.5, which was expanded to include mackinawite (FeS). As before, we suppress the iron sulfide minerals pyrite and troilite, and decouple acetate and methane from carbonate, and sulfide from sulfate. We set the aquifer to include a small amount of siderite, which serves as a sink for aqueous sulfide,... 

Canfield DE, Raiswell R, Bottrell S (1992) The reactivity of sedimentary iron minerals toward sulfide. Am J... 

Some of the discharged sulfide particles settle onto the chimney s exterior, where they are buried by the outward growth of anhydrite. Sulfide precipitation within the chimneys, causes copper, zinc, and iron sulfides to deposit and partially replace the anhydrite. Chimneys can build to several meters in height and their orifices range in diameter from 1 to 30 cm. Both the smoke and the chimneys are composed of polymetallic sulfide minerals, chiefly pyrrhotite (FeS), pyrite (FeS2), chalcopyrite (CuFeS2), and sphalerite or wurtzite (ZnS). 

Slowly reacts with water forming HCl (NIOSH, 1997). 1,1,1-Trichloroethane also was shown to react with a form of iron sulfide mineral, namely mackinawite (FeS(i x)). Complete removal of... 

Thallium is the 59th most abundant element found in the Earths crust. It is widely distributed over the Earth, but in very low concentrations. It is found in the mineral/ores of crooksite (a copper ore CuThSe), lorandite (TLAsS ), and hutchinsonite (lead ore, PbTl). It is found mainly in the ores of copper, iron, sulfides, and selenium, but not in its elemental metallic state. Significant amounts of thallium are recovered from the flue dust of industrial smokestacks where zinc and lead ores are smelted. 

In most industrial processes, copper is produced from the ore chalcopyrite, a mixed copper-iron sulfide mineral, or from the carbonate ores azurite and malachite. The extraction process depends on the chemical compositions of the ore. The ore is crushed and copper is separated by flotation. It then is roasted at high temperatures to remove volatile impurities. In air, chalcopyrite is oxidized to iron(ll) oxide and copper(ll) oxide ... 

Sulfur dioxide is manufactured mostly by combustion of sulfur or its iron sulfide mineral, pyrite, FeS2, in air. The flame temperatures for such combustion of sulfur in the air are usually in the range 1,200 to 1,600°C. Many types of sulfur burners are available and are used to produce sulfur dioxide. They include rotary-kiln, spray, spinning-cup and air-atomizing sulfur burners. Selection and design of burners depend on quality of sulfur to be burned, and rate and concentration of sulfur dioxide to be generated. Pyrites or other metal sulfides may be burned in air in fluid-bed roasters to form sulfur dioxide. 

The goal of beneficiation is to remove as much sulfur from a fuel as possible before it is ever burned. When burned, fuel with lower sulfur content will produce less sulfur dioxide. Beneficiation is usually accomplished by a physical process that separates one form of sulfur, pyritic sulfur, from coal. Pyritic sulfur consists of sulfur minerals (primarily sulfides) that are not chemically bonded to coal in any way. The name is taken from the most common form of mineral sulfur usually found in coal, pyrite, or iron sulfide (FeS2). 

The theory is based on the autotrophic metabolism of low-molecular-weight constituents in an environment of iron sulfide and hot vents. Figure 2.4 gives an illustration of one reaction pathway. It is worthwhile to consider that the metabolism is a surface metabolism, namely with a two-dimensional order, based on negatively charged constituents on a positively charged mineral surface. Actually Wachtershauser sees this as an interesting part of a broader philosophical view (Huber and Wachtershauser, 1997). 

Pyrite is the most common mineral among sulfides. It occurs not only as a major mineral of sulfide ore deposits of base metals, such as Cu, Pb, Zn, in vein-t) e, massive-replacement t) e, kuroko-t5q3e deposits, etc., but also sporadically as an accessory mineral in volcanic, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks. It also occurs as a precipitate in hot springs, and it may be formed by bacterial action. Pyrite itself is not an ore of Fe, though it contains iron, and at best may have economic value as an ore to obtain sulfuric acid. However, due to its occurrence in and... 

Chondrules exhibit a bewildering variety of compositions and textures (F ig. 6.1 a,b). Most are composed primarily of olivine and/or pyroxene, commonly with some glass. (For a crash course in mineral names and compositions, see Box 6.1.) If melt solidifies so quickly that its atoms cannot organize into crystalline minerals, it quenches into glass. Iron-nickel metal and iron sulfide occur in many chondrules, often clustered near the peripheries. The textures of... 

Mineralogical interpretations of Halley dust analyses remain controversial. Lawler et al. (1989) saw no clustering of compositions that might suggest crystalline minerals (Fig. 12.5), whereas Fomenkova et al. (1992) identified compositions that were consistent with a number of minerals, including pyroxene, phyllosilicate, carbonate, FeNi metal, iron sulfide, and iron oxide. The characterization of minerals in returned comet dust (see below) supports the identification of some of these primary minerals but calls into question the identification of those formed by alteration. 

Gluskoter, H. J., Ruch, R. R., Iron Sulfide Minerals in Illinois Coals, Geol. 

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