Giant Metallic Deposits Future Sources of Industrial Metals /

• Main Author: Laznicka, Peter. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Subjects: Geography.; Geology.; Geology, economic.; Mines and mineral resources.; Mineralogy.; Earth Sciences.; Mineral Resources.; Economic Geology.; Applied Earth Sciences.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12405-1

Metals in the earth's crust are very unevenly distributed and, traditionally, a small number of ore deposits, districts or countries have dominated the world supply and have influenced commodity prices. The importance of exceptionally large, or rich, deposits has greatly increased in the age of...

Table of Contents:

• Civilization based on metals
• Data on metallic deposits and magnitude categories: giant and world class deposits
• From trace metals to giant deposits
• Geological divisions that contain ore giants: introduction and role of the mantle
• Oceans and young island arc systems
• Andean-type continental margins (upper volcanic-sedimentary level)
• Cordilleran granitoids in convergent continental margins (lower, plutonic levels)
• Intracratonic (intraplate) orogens, granites, hydrothermal deposits
• Volcano-sedimentary orogens (mostly Phanerozoic)
• Precambrian greenstone-granite terrains
• Proterozoic-style intracratonic orogens and basins: extension, sedimentation, magmatism
• Rifts, paleo-rifts, rifted margins, anorogenic and alkaline magmatism
• Sedimentary association and regoliths
• Higher-grade metamorphoric associations
• Giant deposits in geological context
• Giant deposits: industry, economics, politics
• Finding or acquiring giant deposits
• Epilogue
• References
• Index of mineral deposits.