Advances in Geology of Ore Deposits
Ore is natural rock or sediment that contains one or more valuable minerals, typically containing metals, that can be mined, treated and sold at a profit. Ore is extracted from the earth through mining and treated or refined, often via smelting, to extract the valuable metals or minerals. The grade of ore refers to the concentration of the desired material it contains. The value of the metals or minerals a rock contains must be weighed against the cost of extraction to determine whether it is of sufficiently high grade to be worth mining, and is therefore considered an ore. An ore deposit is an economically significant accumulation of minerals within a host rock. This is distinct from a mineral resource as defined by the mineral resource classification criteria. An ore deposit is one occurrence of a particular ore type. Most ore deposits are named according to their location, or after a discoverer (e.g. the Kambalda nickel shoots are named after drillers), or after some whimsy, a historical figure, a prominent person, a city or town from which the owner came, something from mythology (such as the name of a god or goddess) or the code name of the resource company which found it (e.g. MKD-5 was the in-house name for the Mount Keith nickel sulphide deposit).
Sample Chapter(s)
Preface (95 KB)
Components of the Book:
  • Chapter 1
    Geological features and ore-forming mechanisms of the Chating Cu–Au deposit: A rare case of porphyry deposit in the Middle–Lower Yangtze River metallogenic belt
  • Chapter 2
    Geology and ore genesis data of Elba manganese deposits, southern Eastern Desert, Egypt
  • Chapter 3
    Carbonate Groundwater—An Ore-Preserving Factor at Uranium Deposits of The Khiagda Ore Field (Republic of Buryatia)
  • Chapter 4
    Post-Ore Processes of Uranium Migration in the Sandstone-Hosted Type Deposits: 234U/238U, 238U/235U and U–Pb Systematics of Ores of the Namaru Deposit, Vitim District, Northern Transbaikalia
  • Chapter 5
    Multi-stage sulfide evolution of the Moran Ni sulfide ore, Kambalda, Western Australia: insights into the dynamics of ore forming processes of komatiite-hosted deposits
  • Chapter 6
    Multiple-Stage Mineralization in the Huayangchuan U−REE−Mo−Cu−Fe Ore Belt of the Qinling Orogen, Central China: Geological and Re−Os Geochronological Constraints
  • Chapter 7
    The Source of Ore Fluids and Sm–Nd Age of Siderite from the Largest Bakal Deposit, Southern Urals
  • Chapter 8
    Ore geology, fluid inclusion and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology constraints on the genesis of the Yingchengzi gold deposit, southern Heilongjiang Province, NE China
  • Chapter 9
    Geology, geochronology and geochemistry of the Saishitang Cu deposit, East Kunlun Mountains, NW China: Constraints on ore genesis and tectonic setting
  • Chapter 10
    Ore geology and fluid evolution of the giant Caixiashan carbonate-hosted Zn–Pb deposit in the Eastern Tianshan, NW China
Readership: Students, academics, teachers and other people attending or interested in Geology of Ore Deposits.
Tarek Sedki
Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Minia University, EleMinia, 61519, Egypt

I. N. Solodova
Joint Stock Company Atomredmetzoloto, Moscow, Russia

V. N. Golubev
Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy and Geochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119017 Russia

M. T. Krupenina
Zavaritskii Institute of Geology and Geochemistry, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, 620016 Russia

and more...
Copyright © 2006-2024 Scientific Research Publishing Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Top