An introduction to economic geology and its environmental impact /
As it has grown in length and level through successive edtions, the same author's Introduction to Ore Geology (now Ore Geology and Industrial Minerals) has left behind its original audience: first- and second -ear students. This new textbook, designed to fill that niche, was written specificall...
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Oxford ; Malden, MA :
Blackwell Science,
1997.
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Table of Contents:
- An Introduction to Economic Geology and Its Environmental Impact; Contents; Preface; Units and Abbreviations; Part 1:Principles; 1: The Importance and History of Mining; 2: Some Aspects of Mineral Economics; 3: The Environmental Impact of Mineral Exploitation; 4: The Nature and Morphology of the Principal Types of Ore Deposit; 5: Textures and Structures of Ore and Gangue Minerals. Fluid Inclusions. Wall Rock Alteration; 6: Some Major Theories of Ore Genesis; 7: Geothermometry, Geobarometry, Paragenetic Sequence, Zoning and Dating of Ore Deposits.
- Part 2: Examples of the More Important Types of Ore Deposit8: Mineral Deposit Classification; 9: Diamond Deposits in Kimberlites and Lamproites; 10: The Carbonatite-alkaline Igneous Ore Environment; 11: The Pegmatitic Environment; 12: Orthomagmatic Deposits of Chromium, Platinum, Titanium and Iron Associated with Basic and Ultrabasic Rocks; 13: Orthomagmatic Copper-nickel-iron ( -platinoid) Deposits Associated with Basic and Ultrabasic Rocks; 14: The Skarn Env.