Precious and base metal selenide mineralization at Hope's Nose, Torquay, Devon

“…He has concluded from this that Se along with S was derived from the metasedimentary country rocks. Stanley and Criddle (1990) recently reported selenide group minerals in a carbonate vein from the Hope's Nose deposit. These contain abundant Au, Ag, Hg and Se and are considered to be characteristic of the uppermost parts of precious metal 'epithermal' systems.…”

Section: Spinelmentioning

confidence: 98%

Platinum‐group element and stable isotope geochemistry of PGM‐bearing troctolitic rocks of the Duluth Complex, Minnesota

Mogessie¹,

Stumpfl²

1992

Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

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“…The series of selenides from Tilkerode was identified mainly by Tischendorf: clausthalite (PbSe), naumannite (Ag 2 Se), tiemannite (HgSe), eskebornite (CuFeSe 2 ), trogtalite (CoSe 2 ), hastite (CoSe 2 ), freboldite (CoSe), bornhardtite (Co 3 Se 4 ), berzelianite (Cu 2 Se), umangite (Cu 3 Se 2 ), klockmannite (CuSe), and stibiopalladinite (Pd 5 Sb 2 ) (Davis et al, 1977;Stanley et al, 2002). Two unidentified minerals, noted by Tischendorf in 1958, represented two new species: chrisstanleyite (Ag 2 Pd 3 Se 4 ) and tischendorfite (Pd 8 Hg 3 Se 9 ) (Stanley et al, 1990(Stanley et al, , 2002. Wallis described a number of additional mineral species in the Tilkerode selenide assemblage: krǔ taite (CuSe 2 ), athabascaite (Cu 5 Se 4 ), temagamite (Pd 3 HgTe 3 ), eucairite (CuAgSe), trüstedtite (Ni3Se 4 ), penroseite ((Ni,Co,Cu)Se 2 ), and geffroyite ((Ag,Cu,Fe) 9 (S,Se) 8 ) (Stanley et al, 2002).…”

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confidence: 98%

“…It is intimately associated with freibergite, stibnite, ullmannite, and native gold and occurs as grains from 0.1 to 0.02 mm in diameter (Yunfen et al, 1990). Stanley et al (1990) (Paar et al, 1998).…”

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Selenium minerals and the recovery of selenium from copper refinery anode slimes

Wang¹

2016

J. South. Afr. Inst. Min. Metall.

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Selenium (Se) was first observed in 1817 in a laboratory (Greenwood et al., 1984). The discovery of selenium was made by the Swedish chemist J.J. Berzelius and J.G. Gahn, who isolated selenium from a red residue in sulphuric acid from pyrite mined at Fahlun, Sweden. Selenium was named from the Greek word selene (moon), since it resembled tellurium, which had been discovered a few years earlier and named from the Latin word tellus (Earth).After the first observation of selenium in the laboratory, selenium received considerable interest. In 1954, E.P. Kaiser pointed out that Se is enriched in sulphide ores and often associated with Bi, Co, Sn etc. (Kaiser 1954). In 1959, Hawley and Nichol investigated selenium in Canadian sulphide minerals, and presented the content of selenium in sulphide from several deposits of different types. They also proposed that Se is enriched in lowtemperature hydrothermal pyrite (Hawley and Nichol, 1959). The thermodynamic conditions for forming native selenium and selenium minerals in sedimentary rocks were discussed, as well as geochemical behaviour of selenium near the oxidation zones of sulphides in the 1970s (Howard III, 1977;Zhu et al., 2003). Zhu et al. examined the morphology, features, and genesis of native selenium from Yutangba, Enshi City, Hubei Province, China in 2004, and pointed out, from the different forms of native Se, that selenium can be activated,transformed, remobilized, and enriched at sites such as in the unsaturated subsurface zone or in the saturated zone (Zhu et al., 2005). The transport and deposition of selenium in felsic volcanic-hosted massive sulphide deposits of the Yukon Territory, Canada was studied and reported by LaytonMatthews et al. (2005).Selenium is a comparatively rare and greatly dispersed element. The average selenium content in the Earth's crust is considered to vary between 0.05 and 0.09 g/g (Lakin 1972;Greenwood et al., 1984;Jiajun et al., 1997). Elemental selenium is seldom found in nature; industrially, selenium is obtained as a by-product of mining other metals such as copper, iron, and lead (Fishbein 1983;Wen and Qiu 1999). It is produced primarily from the anode slimes of copper refineries (Butterman et al., 2004). There are various reports in the literature on the treatment of copper anode slimes to recover selenium (Hoffmann 1989; Cooper 1990).In this paper, we provide an overview of selenium minerals, as well as the recovery of selenium from copper refinery anode slimes. Our focus is on the occurrence of selenium minerals and selenium deposits. We also examined the research work reported in the literature on the treatment of copper refinery anode slimes for the recovery of selenium. In 1956, Thompson et al. discovered feltySelenium minerals and the recovery of selenium from copper refinery anode slimes by C. Wang*, S. Li*, H. Wang*, and J. Fu* Since it was first identified in 1817, selenium has received considerable interest. Native selenium and a few selenium minerals were discovered several decades later. With the increasing numbe...

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Precious and base metal selenide mineralization at Hope's Nose, Torquay, Devon

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Platinum‐group element and stable isotope geochemistry of PGM‐bearing troctolitic rocks of the Duluth Complex, Minnesota

Selenium minerals and the recovery of selenium from copper refinery anode slimes

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