Understanding the initial stages of precious metals precipitation: Nanoscale metallic and sulfidic species of gold and silver on pyrite surfaces

Ore Geology Reviews

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 47-54

  Mikhlin, Yuri ^a   Romanchenko, Alexander ^a   Likhatski, Maxim ^a   Karacharov, Anton ^a   Erenburg, Simon ^b   Trubina, Svetlana ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b NIKOLAEV INSTITUTE OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Gold sulfide, silver sulfide, nanoparticles, deposition; Invisible precious metals; Pyrite

Indexed keywords

AG COMPLEX; AG NANOPARTICLE; BOROHYDRIDES; COLLOIDAL SOLUTIONS; CURRENT SURGES; ELEMENTAL METALS; GOLD AND SILVER; INITIAL STAGES; INVISIBLE PRECIOUS METALS; LATERAL SIZES; METALLIC GOLD; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; MOLAR RATIO; NANO SCALE; ORE DEPOSITION; PYRITE SURFACES; REACTION CONDITIONS; RESISTIVE SWITCHING; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY (STM); SILVER NITRATE AQUEOUS SOLUTION; SILVER SULFIDES; SODIUM CITRATE; SURFACE CONCENTRATION; SURFACE LAYERS; TETRACHLOROAURATE; TRANSMISSION MODE; TUNNELING SPECTRA; TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; COMPLEXATION; DEPOSITS; GOLD; GOLD COATINGS; GOLD COMPOUNDS; GOLD DEPOSITS; METALS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SILVER COMPOUNDS; SILVER DEPOSITS; SODIUM; SOLS; SPECTROMETERS; SURFACE REACTIONS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

SILVER;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; DEPOSITION; GOLD; ORE DEPOSIT; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); PYRITE; SILVER; SULFIDE;

EID: 80955137643     PISSN: 01691368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2011.03.005     Document Type: Article

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