PREV

• 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