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Mineral formations on natural diamond surface and their destruction using electrochemically modified mineralized water

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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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  1. Institute of Problems of Comprehensive Exploitation of Mineral Resources, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kryukovskii tupik 4, Moscow, 111020, Russia

    G. P. Dvoichenkova

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Original Russian Text © G.P. Dvoichenkova, 2014, published in Fiziko-Tekhnicheskie Problemy Razrabotki Poleznykh Iskopaemykh, 2014, No. 4, pp. 159–171.

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Dvoichenkova, G.P. Mineral formations on natural diamond surface and their destruction using electrochemically modified mineralized water. J Min Sci 50, 788–799 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S106273911404019X

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