What is it about?
This paper considers the potential for economic exploitation of platinum-group elements from the oxidized near-surface environment. Both the mineral form that such mineralization might take, as well as potential routes for chemical or physical concentration of the mineralization are considered.
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Why is it important?
The platinum-group elements are vital for modern life but are very localized and rare in the earth's crust. Up till now, the vast majority of platinum-group elements extracted have come from a limited number of deep, sulphide-associated orebodies in South Africa, Russia and Canada. It has become important to diversify the sources of such strategic raw materials and this paper considers the practicality of this diversification.
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Laboratory work on the stability of oxidized PGE mineralization was carried out at Imperial College and the Natural History Museum, London.
Dr David M Evans
Natural History Museum, London
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This page is a summary of: Potential for bulk mining of oxidized platinum-group element deposits, Applied Earth Science Transactions of the Institutions of Mining and Metallurgy Section B, April 2002, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1179/aes.2002.111.1.81.
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