Environment and processes of formation of economic minerals deposits
Course Material
- Introduction to economic minerals and rocks and their classification
- Grade and reserve estimation of deposits
- Introduction to Ore Microscopy
- Environment and processes of formation of economic minerals deposits
- Magmatic segregation
- Hydrothermal solution
- Metasomatism
- Sedimentation
- Evaporation
- Residual and mechanical concentration and metamorphism
- Relationship of economic mineral deposits to plate tectonic settings
- Brief description of economic minerals such as fuel minerals
- Gemstones, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Iron, Gold, Chromite, Manganese, Salt, Gypsum, Bauxite, Sulphur, Barite, Fluorite, Clays, Phosphorite
- Building and dimension stones
- Industrial rocks and minerals
- Radioactive minerals and rocks with special reference to Pakistan
- Chapters 16
- Department Earth Sciences
- Teacher
Dr. Syed Haroon Ali
