本书是国际上第一部专门论述矿物学环境属性的专著，系统总结了作者团队近20年来的研究成果（内容来源于国家973项目、国家自然科学基金项目），代表了国内矿物学环境属性的研究水平。
本书系统论述了矿物记录环境变化、矿物影响环境质量、矿物反映环境评价、矿物治理环境污染以及矿物参与生物作用五大矿物学环境属性。特别是在矿物治理污染的环境属性研究方面，提出无机界矿物天然自净化功能，包括矿物表面效应、孔道效应、结构效应、离子交换效应、氧化还原效应、溶解效应、结晶效应、水合效应、热效应、光催化效应、纳米效应以及矿物与生物复合效应等，拓展了环境矿物材料基本性能的研究，并通过实例深入探讨了这些净化功能在天然矿物中的具体表现，提出继物理法、化学法和生物法之后的环境污染防治第四类方法——矿物法。
本书可以向世界展示我国环境矿物学研究的巨大发展，扩大我国矿物学研究的国际影响力。

1 Environmental Property of Minerals
1.1 Research Category of Environmental Property of Minerals
1.1.1 Minerals Record Environmental Changes
1.1.2 Minerals Affect Environmental Quality
1.1.3 Minerals Reflect Environmental Evaluation
1.1.4 Minerals Control Environmental Pollution
1.1.5 Minerals Participate in Biological Function
1.2 Natural Self-purification Function of Inorganic Mineral
1.2.1 Surface Effect of Mineral
1.2.2 Channel Effect of Mineral
1.2.3 Structure Effect of Mineral
1.2.4 Ion Exchange Effect of Mineral
1.2.5 Redox Effect of Mineral
1.2.6 Precipitation/Dissolution Effect of Mineral
1.2.7 Crystallization Effect of Mineral
1.2.8 Hydration Effect of Mineral
1.2.9 Thermal Effect of Mineral
1.2.10 Photocatalytic Effect of Mineral
1.2.11 Nano Effect of Mineral
1.2.12 Composite Effect of Mineral and Organism
1.3 Environmental Effects of 1he Synergism Between Minerals and Microorganisms
1.3.1 Mineral Electron Energy Form
1.3.2 Mineral Photcelectrons Promote the Origin and Evolution of Life
1.3.3 Mineral Photoelectrons Promote the Crowth and Metabolism of Photoelectrophic Microorganisms
1.3.4 Microbial Photoelectrophic Nutrition Mode
References
2 Environmental Effects of Channel Structure Minerals
2.1 Octahedral Channel Effects of Cryptomelane
2.1.1 Channel Structure of Manganese Oxide
2.1.2 Channel Effect of Natural Cryptomelane
2.1.3 Remarks on the Reactivity of Nanomineral Aggregates
2.2 Channel Structure Effects of Potassium Feldspar Tetrahedron
2.2.1 Channel Structure Characteristics of Potassium Feldspar
2.2.2 Ion Exchange Effect of Potassium Feldspar Channels
2.3 Tubular-Texture Effects of the Chrysotile
2.3.1 Crystal Structure of the Chrysotile
2.3.2 The Active Group of Chrysotile
2.3.3 The Activity of Chrysotile
2.3.4 The Nanotube of Clinochrysotile
2.3.5 Nano-fibriform Silica from Natural Chrysotile
References
3 Photoaetivity of Mn Oxides on Earth's Surface
3.1 Nature Manganese Oxides
3.1.1 Vast Distribution of Mn Oxides on Modem Earth
3.1.2 Widespread Mn Coatings on Earth's Surface
3.1.3 Photoelectric Behavior of Mn (Oxyhydr)oxide
3.2 Electronic Structure of Natural Semiconducting Mn Oxides
3.2.1 Effect of Mn (or O) Vacancies
3.2.2 Effect of Metal Cations
3.3 Photocatalytic Self-reduction of Natural Mn Oxides
3.3.1 Photocatalytic Oxidation of Water by Mn4CaO
3.3.2 Pbotocatalytic Self-reduction of Natural Mn Oxides
3.4 Environmental Functions of Mn Oxides Controlled by Mn Redox Cycling
3.4.1 Reductive Dissolution of Mn Oxides Mediated by Organic Matter
3.4.2 Oxidative Formation of Mn Oxides and Heavy Metal Sorption
3.5 Concluding Remarks
References
4 Redox Activity of Iron Sulfide and Mn Oxide
4.1 Removal of Cr(VI) and Cr(III) from Aqueous Solution and Industrial Wastewater by Natural Pyrrhotite
4.1.1 Characteristics of Pyrrhotite and Wastewater
4.1.2 Effectiveness in Cr(VI) Removal
4.1.3 Solid Phases After Cr(VI) Removal
4.1.4 Process of Cr(VI) Removal
4.1.5 Potential Industrial Application
4.2 Reactivity of Mn Oxide Cryptomelane
4.2.1 Occurrence and Characterization of Cryptomelane
4.2.2 Oxidation of Phenols by Mn Oxide
References
5 Interaction Between Fe & Mn-Bearing Minerals and Microbes
5.1 Reduction of Goethite by Cronobacter sakazakii
5.1.1 Total Protein and Fe(II) Concentration Changes
5.1.2 Morphology of the Strain and Minerals
5.1.3 Coordination Structure and Fe Oxidation State of the Products
5.2 Reduction of Birnessite by a Novel Dietzia Strain
5.2.1 Anaerobic Reduction of Birnessite by 45-1 b
5.2.2 Aerobic Reduction of Birnessite by 45-1b
5.2.3 Effect of AQDS on Reduction of Birnessite
5.2.4 Mineral