Distribution of Germanium in Gondwana coals of Jharkhand state, India.
Distribution of Germanium in Gondwana coals of Jharkhand state, India. By Dr. Nitish Priyadarshi Geologist Email: nitish.priyadarshi@gmail.com Introduction: Coal is the most important fossil fuel resources in India. Coal is composed of those elements generally considered to be organic ( C,H,O and N) along with significant quantities of ‘inorganic’ elements as an extremely heterogeneous constituents. These inorganic elements are associated primarily with individual mineral phases in the coal, and commonly termed as “mineral matter”. Mineral matters, including major, minor and trace elements composed a significant proportion of coal and germanium is also one of them. There has been a great interest in g...