Covers basic techniques of sample preparation and examination, qualitative properties used for mineral identification and textures. Provides numerous examples of the major mineral associations. This text is updated to reflect new technical and theoretical developments and new data on the most important ore types. Tables of data for identification of the most common ore minerals are provided in the appendices.
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The ore microscope is the basic instrument for the petrographic examination of the large and economically important group of minerals referred to collectively as "ore" or "opaque" minerals. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ore microscope, placer gold grains, gel pyrite, colloform bands, anhedral aggregates, sphalerite geobarometer, ore microscopy, polishing hardness, most ore minerals, reflection pleochroism, chalcopyrite disease, ore mineral assemblages, paragenetic studies, doubly polished thin sections, common ore minerals, anhedral masses, anhedral grains, ore textures, monoclinic pyrrhotite, lamellar intergrowths, fluid inclusion studies, postdepositional history, euhedral grains, subhedral crystals, paragenetic sequence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Economic Geology, Mississippi Valley, South Africa, Geochemistry of Hydrothermal Ore Deposits, Short Course Notes, Great Gossan Lead, British Columbia, North Carolina, Advanced Microscopic Studies of Ore Minerals, Broken Hill, Bushveld Complex, Cambridge University Press, Cherokee Mine, Great Bear Lake, New Mexico, Western Australia, Geoscience Canada, John Wiley, Pine Point, Canada Short Course Hdbk, Gangue Minerals Quartz, Microscopic Study of Opaque Minerals, Mineral Chemistry of Metal Sulfides New!
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The ore microscope is the basic instrument for the petrographic examination of the large and economically important group of minerals referred to collectively as "ore" or "opaque" minerals. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ore microscope, placer gold grains, gel pyrite, colloform bands, anhedral aggregates, sphalerite geobarometer, ore microscopy, polishing hardness, most ore minerals, reflection pleochroism, chalcopyrite disease, ore mineral assemblages, paragenetic studies, doubly polished thin sections, common ore minerals, anhedral masses, anhedral grains, ore textures, monoclinic pyrrhotite, lamellar intergrowths, fluid inclusion studies, postdepositional history, euhedral grains, subhedral crystals, paragenetic sequence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Economic Geology, Mississippi Valley, South Africa, Geochemistry of Hydrothermal Ore Deposits, Short Course Notes, Great Gossan Lead, British Columbia, North Carolina, Advanced Microscopic Studies of Ore Minerals, Broken Hill, Bushveld Complex, Cambridge University Press, Cherokee Mine, Great Bear Lake, New Mexico, Western Australia, Geoscience Canada, John Wiley, Pine Point, Canada Short Course Hdbk, Gangue Minerals Quartz, Microscopic Study of Opaque Minerals, Mineral Chemistry of Metal Sulfides New!
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- Geochemistry of Hydrothermal Ore Deposits, 3rd Edition by Hubert Lloyd Barnes on 7 pages
- Fluid Inclusions by Roedder on 6 pages
- The Ore Minerals and Their Intergrowths (Monographs in Earth Science) by Paul Ramdohr on 6 pages
- Ore Microscopy by James R. Craig on 5 pages
- Mineral Chemistry of Metal Sulfides (Cambridge Earth Science Series) by David J. Vaughan on 4 pages
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- Introduction to Mineralogy by William D. Nesse on page 159
- Introduction to Ore-Forming Processes by Laurence Robb in Back Matter
- Ore Geology and Industrial Minerals: An Introduction (Geoscience Texts) by Anthony M. Evans in Back Matter
- An Introduction to Economic Geology and Its Environmental Impact by Anthony M. Evans on page 56
- Crystal Identification With The Polarizing Microscope by R.E. Stoiber in Back Matter
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