Ein Buchkapitel zur Mineralogie des Elements Antimon

The element antimony participitates in many primary and secondary minerals, has many industrial uses, and is probably toxic, comparably as its geochemical cousin arsenic. The new book 'Antimony', edited by Montserrat Filella, brings up-to-date information on many topics related to antimony in 15 chapters. Prof. Majzlan has written a chapter on mineralogy of antimony. He addressed the dispersion of antimony in rock-forming minerals (silicates, oxides, sulfides) that may be a source of this element for hydrothermal leaching. Primary minerals have been reviewed for orogenic, epithermal, and orthomagmatic deposits. There is a transition between primary and secondary minerals, constituted by sulfoxides and silicates of antimony. Secondary minerals are reviewed from the perspective of their occurrence, abundance, and importance. Secondary minerals that are nominally free of antimony are also mentioned, in order to complete the picture. The chapter can be accessed here https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110668711-002Externer Link