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Enrichment of U–Se–Mo–Re–V in coals preserved within marine carbonate successions: geochemical and mineralogical data from the Late Permian Guiding Coalfield, Guizhou, China

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We present multi-element data on the super-high-organic-sulfur (SHOS; 5.19 % on average) coals of Late Permian age from Guiding, in Guizhou Province, China. The coals, formed on restricted carbonate platforms, are all highly enriched in S, U, Se, Mo, Re, V, and Cr, and, to a lesser extent, Ni and Cd. Although the Guiding coals were subjected to seawater influence, boron is very low and mainly occurs in tourmaline and mixed-layer illite/smectite. Uranium, Mo, and V in the coal are mainly associated with the organic matter. In addition, a small proportion of the U occurs in coffinite and brannerite. The major carrier of Se is pyrite rather than marcasite. Rhenium probably occurs in secondary sulfate and carbonate minerals. The U-bearing coal deposits have the following characteristics: the formation age is limited to Late Permian; concentrations of sulfur and rare metals (U, Se, Mo, Re, V, and in some cases, rare earth elements and Y) are highly elevated; the U-bearing coal beds are intercalated with marine carbonate rocks; organic sulfur and rare metals are uniformly distributed within the coal seams; and the combustion products (e.g., fly and bottom ash) derived from the coal deposits may have potential economic significance for rare metals: U, Se, Mo, Re, V, rare earth elements, and Y.

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Acknowledgments

This paper is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Vladimir V. Seredin. The research was supported by the National Key Basic Research Program of China (no. 2014CB238902), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 41272182), and the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (IRT13099). We would like to thank Editor-in-Chief Dr. Bernd Lehmann and three anonymous reviewers for their careful reviews and useful comments, which greatly improved the manuscript.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Coal Resources and Safe Mining, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), Beijing, 100083, China

    Shifeng Dai, Yunwei Xing, Weiguo Zhang, Weijiao Song & Peipei Wang

  2. Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy, and Geochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Staromonetnyi per. 35, Moscow, 119017, Russia

    Vladimir V. Seredin

  3. School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia

    Colin R. Ward

  4. Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, 2540 Research Park Drive, Lexington, KY, 40511, USA

    James C. Hower

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Dai, S., Seredin, V.V., Ward, C.R. et al. Enrichment of U–Se–Mo–Re–V in coals preserved within marine carbonate successions: geochemical and mineralogical data from the Late Permian Guiding Coalfield, Guizhou, China. Miner Deposita 50, 159–186 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00126-014-0528-1

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