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Minerals and Wastes, an Overlooked Connection

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A common view is that wastes are very different from natural objects. However minerals are ubiquitous in industrial, construction and demolition and mining ore wastes. There are compositional, textural and crystallographic similarities between the minerals present in nature and in wastes, but also specific differences. The definition of what is a mineral is therefore here discussed and adapted for minerals in wastes. An example of the mineralogy and mineral texture in municipal solid waste incinerated bottom ashes is discussed.

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  1. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, University of Torino, Via Valperga Caluso, 35, 10125, Torino, Italy

    Mario Tribaudino

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  1. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy

    Mario Tribaudino

  2. Institute of Materials Resource Management, Augsburg University, Augsburg, Germany

    Daniel Vollprecht

  3. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy

    Alessandro Pavese

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Tribaudino, M. (2023). Minerals and Wastes, an Overlooked Connection. In: Tribaudino, M., Vollprecht, D., Pavese, A. (eds) Minerals and Waste. Earth and Environmental Sciences Library. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16135-3_1

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