Ore Geology and Industrial Minerals

Part 1: Principles - Some Elementary Aspects of Mineral Economics.
The Nature and Morphology of the Principal Types of oreDeposit.
Textures and Structures of Ore and Gangue Minerals.
Fluid Inclusions.
Wall Rock Alteration.
Some Major Theories of Ore Genesis.
Geothermometry, Geobarometry, Paragenetic Sequence, Zoning andDating of Ore Deposits.
Part 2: Examples of the More Important Types of Ore Deposit -Classification of Ore Deposits.
Diamond Deposits in Kimberlites and Lamproites.
The Carbonatite-alkaline Igneous Ore Environment.
The Pegmatitic Environment.
Orthomagmatic Deposits of Chromium, Platinum, Titanium and IronAssociated with Basic and Ultrabasic Rocks.
Orthomagmatic Copper-nickel-iron (-platinoid) DepositsAssociated with Basic and Ultrabasic Rocks.
Greisen Deposits.
The Skarn Environment.
Disseminated and Stockwork Deposits Associated with PlutonicIntrusives.
Stratiform Sulphide, Oxide, and Sulphate Deposits of Sedimentaryand Volcanic Environments.
The Vein Association and Some other Hydrothermal Deposits.
Strata-bound Deposits.
Sedimentary deposits.
Residual Deposits and Supergene Enrichment.
Industrial Minerals.
Short notes on Selected Industrial Minerals.
The Metamorphism of Ore Deposits.
Part 3: Mineralization in space and time - The globaldistribution of ore deposits: metallogenic provinces and epochs,plate tectonic controls.
Ore mineralization through geological time.
Appendix.
Index