Proceedings of the 10th International Congress for Applied Mineralogy (ICAM)

This book comprises 96 peer-reviewed contributions submitted to the 10th ICAM Congress, held in Trondheim, Norway on 01-05 August 2011. Themes covered include:

1) Advanced materials, including high-performance technical ceramics and glasses,

2) Analytical techniques, instrumentation and automation,

3) Bio-mimetic mineral materials, medical mineralogy,

4) Construction materials including cement/SCMs, concrete, bricks, tiles, screeds,

5) Cultural heritage, stone artifacts and preservation,

6) Environment and energy mineralogy, including CO2 sequestration,

7) Geometallurgy and process mineralogy, and 8) Industrial minerals including gems, ore minerals, and mineral exploration.

The most recent ICAM Congress Proceedings 96 peer-reviewed contributions on 846p with Author and subject indices for easy look-up and retrieval

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From the Content: Iodine K-edge EXAFS spectroscopy of iodine-bearing AFm-(Cl2, CO3, SO4).- Prediction of mineral processing behavior of bauxite ores by XRD cluster analysis.- Metallogeny of Culampajá Gold District, Argentina.- Systematic REE partitioning in cubo-dodecahedral fluorite from Belgium revealed by cathodoluminescence spectral imaging and laser ablation-ICP-MS.- Geochemical characteristics of the Aligudarz granite intrusion and its mineralization potential.- Occurrences and petrographical variations among the glauconite deposits from Egypt.- Investigation of an old problem: optimisation and cost effectiveness.- Three-dimensional evaluation of magnetitehematite transformation via EBSD technique.- Effect of alteration on the mineralogy and flotation performance of PPM platinum ore.- The role of process mineralogy in identifying the cause of the low recovery of chalcopyrite at KUCC.- Petrographic crystallography in solving problems of applied mineralogy.- Monomineralic aggregates in mortars: examples from Lombardy (Northern Italy).- Assessment of individual ASR-aggregate particles by XRD.- Grain size analysis of quartz in potentially alkali-reactive aggregates for concrete: a comparison between image analysis and point-counting.- Effect of farm manure on dissolution of underlying carbonate rocks and atmospheric CO2 source/sink.- High voltage selective fragmentation for detailed mineralogical and analytical information,case study: Oiva's gold-quartz-dyke in the Lapland granulite belt, Laanila, Northern Finland.- The use of 3D X-ray computed tomography for gold location in exploration drill cores.- Crandallite formation in archaeological potteries found in the Amazonian dark earth soils.- Bioleaching of metals from tail-serpentine by Aspergillus niger.- Chemical composition and age of uraninite of the Zhovta Richka uranium deposit (Ukraine).- Metasomatic formation and replacement of apatite (Bamble sector, South Norway).- REE mobilization in complex hydrothermalmetasomatic systems: fluid chemistry evidence of albitite and chlorite-talc mineralisations in Central Sardinia, Italy.- Synthesis of intermetallic Ni-Al nanoparticles by wet chemistry synthesis of NiAcac2 and AlCl3 precursors.- Building façades of Oporto City covered with glazed tiles. Guidelines of characterisation for preservation.- Advanced discrimination of hematite and magnetite by automated mineralogy.