Chinese researchers discovered a new mineral in the Zhongcun Vanadium Mine of Jinmo Group Wuzhou Mining, named "Nakamura Vanadium Copper Mine", and was approved by the New Mineral Nomenclature and Classification Committee of the International Mineralogical Association. At present, the geological specimens of this mineral have been collected by the China Geological Museum.
Wuzhou Mining Zhongcun Vanadium Mine is a vanadium deposit in black shale, located in Zhongcun Town, Shanyang County, Shangluo City, Shaanxi Province. The high-quality shale vanadium deposit in the mining area is known as the "Pearl on the Black Belt". The Zhongcun Vanadium Copper Mine discovered this time was a new mineral discovered in the deposit by Fu Xuerui, a doctoral student at China University of Geosciences, under the guidance of his tutor, Associate Professor Xu Lingang. It is also the first discovery in vanadium-rich black shale in my country.
Vanadium has important applications in the fields of steel industry, metallurgy and chemical industry, aerospace, national defense and military industry, medicine, pigments, glass, new energy batteries, etc. It is known as "metal vitamin", "chemical bread" and "modern industrial MSG". The newly discovered Nakamura vanadium copper mine is present in the form of single mineral particles ranging from 20μm to 120μm in vanadium-rich black shale, and belongs to the sulfur-cobalt copper mine subfamily in the sulfur spinel family.
Nakamura vanadium copper mine is a black opaque mineral with metallic luster. It is light cream in reflected light. It coexists with minerals such as pyrite, sphalerite and vanadium mica. It is a new vanadium-containing sulfide in the form of an independent mineral. It is the mineral with the highest vanadium content in the vanadium deposits of black shale. According to experts, the discovery of Nakamura vanadium copper mine has important theoretical and practical significance for the future study of the extraordinary enrichment mechanism of vanadium in black shale and the beneficiation of black shale-type vanadium ores.
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