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Karelian deposits, Type I/II/III/IV, formation history.

Karelian deposits, Type I/II/III/IV, formation history.

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There is native gold in shungite - plus tungsten, molybdenum, nickel minerals and rare-earth enrichment, all mapped in one Karelian deposit Category: Mineralogy & Geology Topic started 5 months 5 days ago, by Research Last Post 5 months 5 days ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:449	Last Post by Research 5 months 5 days 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 6 months 2 weeks ago, by Research Last Post 5 months 5 days ago by Research	Replies:1 Views:405	Last Post by Research 5 months 5 days ago
Structure and composition of natural carbonaceous shungite Category: Mineralogy & Geology Topic started 6 months 1 week ago, by Research Last Post 5 months 5 days ago by Research	Replies:1 Views:372	Last Post by Research 5 months 5 days ago
Industrial uses of shungite you probably haven't heard of Category: Mineralogy & Geology Topic started 6 months 1 week ago, by Research Last Post 6 months 1 week ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:336	Last Post by Research 6 months 1 week ago
What 2 billion years really looks like: a timeline you can hold in your hand Category: Mineralogy & Geology Topic started 6 months 1 week ago, by Research Last Post 6 months 1 week ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:321	Last Post by Research 6 months 1 week ago
The Olonets iron foundries: how shungite ended up at the centre of Russian industry Category: Mineralogy & Geology Topic started 6 months 1 week ago, by Research Last Post 6 months 1 week ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:354	Last Post by Research 6 months 1 week ago
The sulfur in shungite is what made fullerenes possible Category: Mineralogy & Geology Topic started 6 months 1 week ago, by Research Last Post 6 months 1 week ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:312	Last Post by Research 6 months 1 week ago
Petrozavodsk: the city Peter built for Russian iron, now the heart of shungite research Category: Mineralogy & Geology Topic started 6 months 1 week ago, by Research Last Post 6 months 1 week ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:301	Last Post by Research 6 months 1 week ago
Karelian or Russian? Geographic and historical context of shungite Category: Mineralogy & Geology Topic started 6 months 1 week ago, by burt Last Post 6 months 1 week ago by burt	Replies:0 Views:233	Last Post by burt 6 months 1 week ago
The Onega Basin: 2-billion-year-old crater that became Europe's largest carbon deposit Category: Mineralogy & Geology Topic started 6 months 1 week ago, by Research Last Post 6 months 1 week ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:342	Last Post by Research 6 months 1 week ago
Older than forests, older than fish, older than oxygen-rich air: shungite at 2 billion years Category: Mineralogy & Geology Topic started 6 months 1 week ago, by Research Last Post 6 months 1 week ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:330	Last Post by Research 6 months 1 week ago
Zazhoginskoye: the world's largest deposit, 35 million tonnes of high-carbon shungite Category: Mineralogy & Geology Topic started 6 months 1 week ago, by Research Last Post 6 months 1 week ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:317	Last Post by Research 6 months 1 week ago
Melezhik 2004: the giant Palaeoproterozoic Karelian shungite deposit Category: Mineralogy & Geology Topic started 6 months 1 week ago, by Research Last Post 6 months 1 week ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:349	Last Post by Research 6 months 1 week ago
Raman spectroscopy: shungite vs. anthraxolite (carbon ordering) Category: Mineralogy & Geology Topic started 6 months 1 week ago, by Research Last Post 6 months 1 week ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:323	Last Post by Research 6 months 1 week ago
Hydrogen content of shungite measured via neutron scattering Category: Mineralogy & Geology Topic started 6 months 1 week ago, by Research Last Post 6 months 1 week ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:302	Last Post by Research 6 months 1 week ago
What you are actually wearing: shungite is mostly reduced graphene oxide (Sheka & Rozhkova 2014) Category: Mineralogy & Geology Topic started 6 months 1 week ago, by Research Last Post 6 months 1 week ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:398	Last Post by Research 6 months 1 week 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 6 months 2 weeks ago, by Research Last Post 6 months 2 weeks ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:319	Last Post by Research 6 months 2 weeks 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 6 months 2 weeks ago, by Research Last Post 6 months 2 weeks ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:357	Last Post by Research 6 months 2 weeks ago
Russia has had a dedicated state shungite research laboratory operating continuously for fifty years Category: Mineralogy & Geology Topic started 6 months 3 weeks ago, by Research Last Post 6 months 3 weeks ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:318	Last Post by Research 6 months 3 weeks 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 6 months 3 weeks ago, by Research Last Post 6 months 3 weeks ago by Research	Replies:0 Views:347	Last Post by Research 6 months 3 weeks ago