Mineralogy & Geology

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Industrial uses of shungite you probably haven't heard of Category: Mineralogy & Geology Topic started 1 week 3 days ago, by Research Last Post 1 week 3 days ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:13	Last Post by Research 1 week 3 days ago
What 2 billion years really looks like: a timeline you can hold in your hand Category: Mineralogy & Geology Topic started 1 week 3 days ago, by Research Last Post 1 week 3 days ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:9	Last Post by Research 1 week 3 days ago
The Olonets iron foundries: how shungite ended up at the centre of Russian industry Category: Mineralogy & Geology Topic started 1 week 3 days ago, by Research Last Post 1 week 3 days ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:7	Last Post by Research 1 week 3 days ago
The sulfur in shungite is what made fullerenes possible Category: Mineralogy & Geology Topic started 1 week 3 days ago, by Research Last Post 1 week 3 days ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:9	Last Post by Research 1 week 3 days ago
Petrozavodsk: the city Peter built for Russian iron, now the heart of shungite research Category: Mineralogy & Geology Topic started 1 week 3 days ago, by Research Last Post 1 week 3 days ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:9	Last Post by Research 1 week 3 days ago
Karelian or Russian? Geographic and historical context of shungite Category: Mineralogy & Geology Topic started 1 week 3 days ago, by burt Last Post 1 week 3 days ago by burt	Replies:0 Views:13	Last Post by burt 1 week 3 days ago
The Onega Basin: 2-billion-year-old crater that became Europe's largest carbon deposit Category: Mineralogy & Geology Topic started 1 week 3 days ago, by Research Last Post 1 week 3 days ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:10	Last Post by Research 1 week 3 days ago
Older than forests, older than fish, older than oxygen-rich air: shungite at 2 billion years Category: Mineralogy & Geology Topic started 1 week 3 days ago, by Research Last Post 1 week 3 days ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:8	Last Post by Research 1 week 3 days ago
Zazhoginskoye: the world's largest deposit, 35 million tonnes of high-carbon shungite Category: Mineralogy & Geology Topic started 1 week 3 days ago, by Research Last Post 1 week 3 days ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:9	Last Post by Research 1 week 3 days ago
Melezhik 2004: the giant Palaeoproterozoic Karelian shungite deposit Category: Mineralogy & Geology Topic started 1 week 4 days ago, by Research Last Post 1 week 4 days ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:18	Last Post by Research 1 week 4 days ago
Structure and composition of natural carbonaceous shungite Category: Mineralogy & Geology Topic started 1 week 4 days ago, by Research Last Post 1 week 4 days ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:11	Last Post by Research 1 week 4 days ago
Raman spectroscopy: shungite vs. anthraxolite (carbon ordering) Category: Mineralogy & Geology Topic started 1 week 4 days ago, by Research Last Post 1 week 4 days ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:12	Last Post by Research 1 week 4 days ago
Hydrogen content of shungite measured via neutron scattering Category: Mineralogy & Geology Topic started 1 week 4 days ago, by Research Last Post 1 week 4 days ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:9	Last Post by Research 1 week 4 days ago
What you are actually wearing: shungite is mostly reduced graphene oxide (Sheka & Rozhkova 2014) Category: Mineralogy & Geology Topic started 1 week 4 days ago, by Research Last Post 1 week 4 days ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:15	Last Post by Research 1 week 4 days ago
A 2016 peer-reviewed paper concludes Karelian shungite is a natural carbon allotrope made of ~1 nanometre reduced-graphene-oxide sheets, slowly reduced over 2 billion years of hydrothermal action Category: Mineralogy & Geology Topic started 2 weeks 1 day ago, by Research Last Post 2 weeks 1 day ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:11	Last Post by Research 2 weeks 1 day ago
The Zazhoginskoe deposit by the numbers: 25 separate ore bodies, 0.2 to 58 million tons each, in a 9000 km² basin holding 250 billion tons of organic matter Category: Mineralogy & Geology Topic started 2 weeks 1 day ago, by Research Last Post 2 weeks 1 day ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:11	Last Post by Research 2 weeks 1 day ago
Shungite glows. The light comes from natural graphene quantum dots, fractally arranged, identical to ones synthetic chemistry only learned to make in the 2010s. Category: Mineralogy & Geology Topic started 2 weeks 5 days ago, by Research Last Post 2 weeks 5 days ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:9	Last Post by Research 2 weeks 5 days ago
Russia has had a dedicated state shungite research laboratory operating continuously for fifty years Category: Mineralogy & Geology Topic started 2 weeks 6 days ago, by Research Last Post 2 weeks 6 days ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:9	Last Post by Research 2 weeks 6 days ago
Stromatolites are bacteria's tombs built while alive. Shungite is the same bacteria's tombs built after they died. Category: Mineralogy & Geology Topic started 3 weeks 1 day ago, by Research Last Post 3 weeks 1 day ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:11	Last Post by Research 3 weeks 1 day ago
A Czech university chemistry team showed in 2023 that Karelian shungite works as well as glassy carbon electrodes for detecting heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, and surfactants Category: Mineralogy & Geology Topic started 3 weeks 2 days ago, by Research Last Post 3 weeks 2 days ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:20	Last Post by Research 3 weeks 2 days ago