Mineral Formations on Natural Diamond Surface and Their Destruction Using Electrochemically Modified Mineralized Water
G. P. DVOICHENKOVA
Institute of Problems of Comprehensive Exploitation of Mineral Resources Russian Academy of Sciences, Kryukovskii tupik 4, Moscow, 111020 Russia
Keywords: diamond, kimberlite, analysis, mineralogy, mineralization, hydrophilic formations, films, foam separation
Abstract
The article describes modeling and analysis of formation, attachment and dissolving of mineral substances on surface of diamond crystals. Based on the thermodynamic analysis and experimental research, the author validates deposition of chemical compounds as the main factor to govern mineral formations on natural diamond surface under contact with mineralized water in the occurrence conditions of kimberlite ore and during mining and processing. The efficiency of electrochemically modified water in dissolving and removal of mineral formations from diamond surface is ascertained.
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