Progress on tellurium enrichment in the ocean ferromanganese crusts

SUN Yang; CUI Yingchun; MA Lijie; FANG Xisheng; ZHANG Hao; CHEN Shaocong; ZONG Shi; WANG Weixuan; WANG Qingchao

doi:10.19388/j.zgdzdc.2023.04.08

2023 Vol. 10, No. 4

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SUN Yang, CUI Yingchun, MA Lijie, FANG Xisheng, ZHANG Hao, CHEN Shaocong, ZONG Shi, WANG Weixuan, WANG Qingchao. 2023. Progress on tellurium enrichment in the ocean ferromanganese crusts. Geological Survey of China, 10(4): 65-71. doi: 10.19388/j.zgdzdc.2023.04.08

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SUN Yang, CUI Yingchun, MA Lijie, FANG Xisheng, ZHANG Hao, CHEN Shaocong, ZONG Shi, WANG Weixuan, WANG Qingchao. 2023. Progress on tellurium enrichment in the ocean ferromanganese crusts. Geological Survey of China, 10(4): 65-71. doi: 10.19388/j.zgdzdc.2023.04.08

Progress on tellurium enrichment in the ocean ferromanganese crusts

1. Key Laboratory of Polar Science, Ministry of Natural Resources, Polar Research Institute of China, Shanghai 201209, China;
2. Key Laboratory of Marine Geology and Environment, Chinese Academy of Science, Institute of Oceanology of Chinese Academy of Science, Shandong Qingdao 266071, China;
3. Lab of Marine Geology and Geophysics, First Institute of Oceanography, Shandong Qingdao 266061, China

Received Date: 20 December 2022

Revised Date: 18 July 2023

Abstract

Abstract

The element tellurium is widely used in industrial production, but it is depleted in the earth's crust and riched in oceanic ferromanganese crusts. The authors in this paper reviewed the study about the enrichment process of tellurium in ferromanganese crusts, and it is found that the tellurium content in ferromanganese crusts in various regions is different. For example the tellurium in the E 90° ridge region in Indian Ocean with the increasing trends from north to south. Temporally, the content of tellurium in the old crust is higher, and the tellurium flux would vary with the growh ratios of crusts.The Tellurium element occurs as multi-mineral phases and has multi-sources in ferromanganese crusts, which is controlled by the oceanic physical and chemical process. This research would be beneficial to the development of mineralization theory of dispersed elements.
- ferromanganese crusts /
- tellurium element /
- occurrence state /
- material source /
- enrichment mechanism