Some issues of chemical activity of minerals: its genetic and technological aspects

摘要

Chemical activity of a substance may be regarded asits capacity to come into various chemical reactions. In connectionto mineralogy this problem has genetic and technological aspects.From genetic point the attention should be direct to mechanism ofreactions and forms I which the reaction capacity appears itself.These two factors could allow 1) to explain, in some cases,complicated relations between minerals, 2) to predict possiblenewly formed minerals, 3) to estimate the degree of a crystalstructure tolerance for effect of various agents, and responsivenessof its different elements (atoms, molecules, coordinated groups.)analysis of factors accelerating the chemical activity of a mineral isno less significant. Those factors can exist within the mineral itself,but might be imported from outside also. In general, data onchemical activity ought to be considered first of all in technologyof the ore processing; for example, to chose the rational flotation scheme, etc.