Atlas Opaque And Ore Minerals
Atlas Opaque And Ore Minerals

Author: R. A. Ixer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781461308591

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Reflected light microscopy is the standard method for the This atlas contains nearly four hundred colour photomicro characterization of ore minerals and hence its role in economic graphs, each accompanied by a description and used to illustrate mineral studies is well established. However, the technique has common mineral assemblages. The photomicrographs are been neglected in routine petrographical studies of unminera grouped together into blocks of associations under a broad lized rocks. This is partly because the recognition and identifi genetic classification scheme, and each block is preceded by a cation of opaque minerals using their optical properties in text that is intended as a brief background and introduction to reflected light is a skill that takes time to master and partly the figured examples and an expansion of their mineralogy and because electron microscopy and microprobe techniques are petrography. The text, therefore, is biased towards descriptive as a substitute for, rather than alongside, the polarizing used petrography and away from economic geology, detailed microscope. descriptions of deposits or ore genesis. The majority of the Unlike translucent minerals in transmitted light, many of the references, nearly all of which are to be found in easily accessible optical properties of opaque minerals in reflected light are textbooks, conference volumes, or journals, reflect this bias. perceived to change as the viewing conditions are altered. In However, for the more important classes of mineral deposits, well polished, untarnished sections the perceived surface colour some recent generalized references are included.

Atlas Opaque And Ore Minerals
Atlas Opaque And Ore Minerals

Author: R. A. Ixer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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Reflected light microscopy is the standard method for the This atlas contains nearly four hundred colour photomicro characterization of ore minerals and hence its role in economic graphs, each accompanied by a description and used to illustrate mineral studies is well established. However, the technique has common mineral assemblages. The photomicrographs are been neglected in routine petrographical studies of unminera grouped together into blocks of associations under a broad lized rocks. This is partly because the recognition and identifi genetic classification scheme, and each block is preceded by a cation of opaque minerals using their optical properties in text that is intended as a brief background and introduction to reflected light is a skill that takes time to master and partly the figured examples and an expansion of their mineralogy and because electron microscopy and microprobe techniques are petrography. The text, therefore, is biased towards descriptive as a substitute for, rather than alongside, the polarizing used petrography and away from economic geology, detailed microscope. descriptions of deposits or ore genesis. The majority of the Unlike translucent minerals in transmitted light, many of the references, nearly all of which are to be found in easily accessible optical properties of opaque minerals in reflected light are textbooks, conference volumes, or journals, reflect this bias. perceived to change as the viewing conditions are altered. In However, for the more important classes of mineral deposits, well polished, untarnished sections the perceived surface colour some recent generalized references are included.

A Practical Guide to Ore Microscopy—Volume 1
A Practical Guide to Ore Microscopy—Volume 1

Author: Ricardo Castroviejo

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-07-12

Total Pages: 951

ISBN-13: 3031126548

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This book offers a guide to the microscopic study of metallic ores with reflected light. It combines a rigorous approach with an attractive and easy-to-follow format, using high-quality calibrated photomicrographs to illustrate the use of color for ore identification. The ore identification methodology is updated with systematic color analysis and the application of new multispectral reflectance datasets, which offer an efficient tool for automated ore characterization. In addition, the first volume of this two-part work discusses the essential gangue minerals. Readers will gain familiarity with the method as they follow its application to over 200 selected minerals, comprising the most important ore (≈150) and gangue (≈50) minerals, which are described in the text. Each entry includes an explanatory text with corresponding color photomicrographs for each of the most common microscope settings, preceded by a table summarizing the ore’s main properties, and followed by spectral information in the visible and near-infrared ranges (specular reflectance values from 370 to 1000 nm). Some uncommon, strategic ores, e.g. columbotantalite (“coltan”) and monazite, receive particular attention or are described for the first time with reflected light. Lastly, the book presents a learning strategy for beginners and students. The approach is essentially practical, focusing on the development of observation skills, including self-checking through proposed practical tasks. In addition, the traditional use of determinative tables is critically reviewed and updated. This book is part of a two-volume work. The second volume focuses on intergrowths/textural analysis and interpretation, as well as computer-vision-based automation and applications to ore processing/geometallurgy. The intended audience includes professionals and engineers dealing with mineral resources, as well as postgraduate students. The book also provides lifelong learning support for freelancers and a valuable reference resource for practical university teaching.

Manual of Mineral Science
Manual of Mineral Science

Author: Cornelis Klein

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2007-02-20

Total Pages: 726

ISBN-13: 0471721573

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First published in 1848, authored by J.D. Dana, the Manual of Mineral Science now enters its 23rd edition. This new edition continues in the footsteps or its predecessors as the standard textbook in Mineralogy/Mineral Science/Earth Materials/Rocks and Minerals courses. This new edition contains 22 chapters, instead of 14 as in the prior edition. This is the result of having packaged coherent subject matter into smaller, more easily accessible units. Each chapter has a new and expanded introductory statement, which gives the user a quick overview of what is to come. Just before these introductions, each chapter features a new illustration that highlights some aspect of the subject in that particular chapter. All such changes make the text more readable, user-friendly and searchable. Many of the first 14 chapters are reasonably independent of each other, allowing for great flexibility in an instructor's preferred subject sequence. The majority of illustrations in this edition were re-rendered and/or redesigned and many new photographs, mainly of mineral specimens, were added. NEW Thoroughly Revised Lab Manual ISBN13: 978-0-471-77277-4 Also published by John Wiley & Sons, the thoroughly updated Laboratory Manual: Minerals and Rocks: Exercises in Crystal and Mineral Chemistry, Crystallography, X-ray Powder Diffraction, Mineral and Rock Identification, and Ore Mineralogy, 3e, is for use in the mineralogy laboratory and covers the subject matter in the same sequence as the Manual of Mineral Science, 23e.

Ore Microscopy
Ore Microscopy

Author: James R. Craig

Publisher:

Published: 1981-06-04

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13:

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Provides an up-to-date introduction to the subject of ore microscopy, emphasizing the basic skills required for the study of opaque minerals in polished sections. Describes the modern ore microscope, the preparation of polished and polished-thin sections of opaque minerals and ores, and the identification of these minerals using both qualitative techniques and the quantitative methods of reflectance and microhardness measurement. Later sections discuss the interpretation of textural intergrowths of ore minerals and the determination of their paragenesis, along with the examination of coexisting minerals for determining their physio-chemical conditions of formation. Appendices contain the data necessary to identify approximately 100 of the more common ore minerals and those frequently encountered by the professional scientist.

Quantitative Data File for Ore Minerals
Quantitative Data File for Ore Minerals

Author: A.J. Criddle

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 698

ISBN-13: 9401114862

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reviewers, and reported by users of the earlier This third edition (or issue) of the Quantitative Data File for ore minerals (QDF) of the Commission on editions. The result is that 510 species and 125 are Mineralogy of the International Mineralogical compositional or structural variants, or varieties, of Association (COM-IMA) is published, with the species, are represented in QDF3. A large number of support of the Natural History Museum, London, by the entries include data collected from the type Chapman & Hall. It has been greatly revised and specimen of a mineral: these include data extracted enlarged and now includes graphs of the reflectance from the published literature. In this respect, QDF3 spectra for all of its entries. These have been differs from earlier editions. included in response to requests from users of the We have also revised and simplified the notes earlier editions. Also included, for those users concerning X-ray data: no longer are the strongest unfamiliar with the application of such spectra to lines in the powder diffraction pattern quoted, nor mineral identification, are introductory notes, are cell dimensions generally given. Instead, it was illustrated with examples of R spectra. decided to refer to data from the original description, The 635 data sets, which are arranged or to data in the PDF of the JCPDS.

Proceedings of the 10th International Congress for Applied Mineralogy (ICAM)
Proceedings of the 10th International Congress for Applied Mineralogy (ICAM)

Author: Maarten A.T.M. Broekmans

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-03-20

Total Pages: 805

ISBN-13: 3642276822

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This book comprises 96 peer-reviewed contributions submitted to the 10th ICAM Congress, held in Trondheim, Norway on 01-05 August 2011. Themes covered include: 1) Advanced materials, including high-performance technical ceramics and glasses, 2) Analytical techniques, instrumentation and automation, 3) Bio-mimetic mineral materials, medical mineralogy, 4) Construction materials including cement/SCMs, concrete, bricks, tiles, screeds, 5) Cultural heritage, stone artifacts and preservation, 6) Environment and energy mineralogy, including CO2 sequestration, 7) Geometallurgy and process mineralogy, and 8) Industrial minerals including gems, ore minerals, and mineral exploration.