Industrial Minerals and Rocks
( Volume 18 )
Publication series ：Volume 18
Publisher： Elsevier Science
Publication year： 2013
E-ISBN: 9780444597502
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780444996053
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9780444996053
Subject： P57 mineralogy
Language： ENG
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Description
Industrial Minerals and Rocks is a collection of research papers concerning the study of industrial mineral deposits. This work is composed of 17 chapters that specifically highlight the research done by Czech and Slovak economic geologists in non-metallic deposits, including talc, magnesite, kaolin, and clay.
After an introduction to the history of industrial minerals and rocks, this book goes on reviewing the origin, principal element cycle, genetic types, form, and size of these deposits. Considerable chapters describe the deposits of industrial minerals, rocks, and building raw materials. The remaining chapters deal with the geophysical methods prospecting and exploration and production of industrial raw materials, rocks, and minerals.
This book will prove useful to mineral geologists and researchers.
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