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: Received: 19 July 2023 / Approved: 20 July 2023 / Online: 20 July 2023 (12:54:44 CEST)
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Zhang, M.; Dai, Y.; Xie, S.; Liu, P. Mechanical Simulation on the Vertical Migration of Ore-forming Elements in Soil Cover. Preprints2023, 2023071414. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.1414.v1
Zhang, M.; Dai, Y.; Xie, S.; Liu, P. Mechanical Simulation on the Vertical Migration of Ore-forming Elements in Soil Cover. Preprints 2023, 2023071414. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.1414.v1
Zhang, M.; Dai, Y.; Xie, S.; Liu, P. Mechanical Simulation on the Vertical Migration of Ore-forming Elements in Soil Cover. Preprints2023, 2023071414. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.1414.v1
APA Style
Zhang, M., Dai, Y., Xie, S., & Liu, P. (2023). Mechanical Simulation on the Vertical Migration of Ore-forming Elements in Soil Cover. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.1414.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Zhang, M., Shuyun Xie and Pengcheng Liu. 2023 "Mechanical Simulation on the Vertical Migration of Ore-forming Elements in Soil Cover" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.1414.v1
Abstract
For deep-penetrating geochemistry, there is a frontier issue as to how to explore ore-bearing information deep in covered areas, while it is, too, important to investigate the geochemical migration of ore-forming elements for the development of exploration geochemistry. In this study, a 380-day migration column experiment was conducted with surface soil and pure Cu powder collected from the Yujiashan study area in Wuhan City, Hubei Province taken as the object of research to simulate the migration process of ore-forming elements under natural conditions. The results showed obvious vertical migration of the ore-forming elements and conversion of mobile metal forms in the process; further, according to 6 groups of simulation experiments that took 45 days to conduct on migration column samples and the surface oil and Cu powder collected from the Pulang mining area in Yunnan Province, the vertical migration of the ore-forming element was still visible, and the exogenous substance (pure Cu powder) could enhance the anomaly without changing the basic migration mechanism. This indicates that Cu might migrate in a stable manner in soil cover in the Pulang mining area, and its migration was mostly driven by the transformation of Fe-Mn oxide bound state and organic bound state; finally, a multifractal analysis was conducted, revealing that the ore-forming elements presented a nonlinear and complex structure during their upward migration, which caused anomalies in the covered area, and multiple parameters exerted a certain indicative effect on different source intensities and properties of soil. In this study, laboratory simulations were performed to summarize the active-state evolution pattern and migration mechanism of ore-forming elements with a view to providing technical support and theoretical guidance for geochemical prospecting in the covered region.
Keywords
Ore-forming element; vertical migration; laboratory simulation; nonlinear theory
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Geophysics and Geology
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