Tellurium

Abstract

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Tin from Uluburun shipwreck shows small-scale commodity exchange fueled continental tin supply across Late Bronze Age Eurasia

“…Many of the Uluburun tin ingots, including stannite-associated samples (Mušiston and Bolkardağ) and a subset of P1 ingots, exhibit elevated concentrations of Te compared to the average crustal abundance of 0.03 parts per million (ppm) ( 15 ). Tellurium enrichment is associated with epithermal mineralization systems (<1-km depth) ( 16 ), consistent with the 0.5- to 3-km depth of Central Tajikistan’s polymetallic tin deposits ( 17 ). The lode and greisen ores of Cornwall formed at greater depths (2.5 to 6 km) ( 18 ); the single Te analysis from the English tin ingots has <1.3 ppm of Te; and the P1 group lacks the correlation between Pb, Bi, Sb, and In observed in the Salcombe tin ingot assemblage ( 19 ).…”

Tellurium and Nano-Tellurium: Medicine or Poison?

“…The other one is the Kankberg deposit in Västerbotten County (Sweden), which exhibits epithermal-like mineralization. Together, these deposits contribute approximately 15% (around 70 metric tons) of the annual worldwide production of Te, which ranges between 450 and 470 metric tons [ 27 ]. Globally, it is predicted that 9500 metric tons of Te have been deposited near Cu smelters since 1900 [ 28 ].…”

Oxygen isotope evidence for input of magmatic fluids and precipitation of Au-Ag-tellurides in an otherwise ordinary adularia-sericite epithermal system in NE China

“…Tellurium (Te)-rich adularia-sericite epithermal Au-Ag deposits are important producers of gold throughout the world (Ahmad et al 1987;Spry et al 1996;Cooke and McPhail 2001;Cook and Ciobanu 2005;Ciobanu et al 2006;Voudouris 2006;Cook et al 2009;Saunders and Brueseke 2012;Goldfarb et al 2016Goldfarb et al , 2017Kelley and Spry 2016;Zhai et al 2018;Keith et al 2020). Some of these deposits are associated with alkalic volcano-plutonic centers (e.g., Cripple Creek; Kelley et al 1998) and others with calc-alkalic volcano-plutonic centers (e.g., Sandaowanzi; Gao et al 2017).…”

“…http://www.minsocam.org/ lithospheric mantle (SCLM) (e.g., Holwell et al 2019). These deposits are economically important and are a potential source of Te, which is a critical commodity for modern technology, if current metallurgical impediments are resolved (Spry et al 2004;Ciobanu et al 2006;Cook et al 2009;Goldfarb et al 2016Goldfarb et al , 2017Kelley and Spry 2016;Jenkin et al 2019).…”