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- Title: Introduction to Ore-Forming Processes
- Author: Laurence Robb
- Publisher: Blackwell
- Pages: 386
There are many excellent texts, available at both introductory and advanced levels, that describe the Earth’s mineral deposits. Several describe the deposits themselves and others do so in combination with explanations that provide an under standing of how such mineral occurrences form. Few are dedicated entirely to the multitude of processes that give rise to the ore deposits of the world. The main purpose of this book is to provide a better understanding of the processes, as well as the nature and origin, of mineral occurrences and how they fit into the Earth system. It is intended for use at a senior undergraduate level (third and fourth year levels), or graduate level (North America), and assumes a basic knowledge in a wide range of core earth science disciplines, as well as in chemistry and physics.
Although meant to be introductory, it is reasonably comprehensive in its treatment of topics, and it is hoped that practicing geologists in the minerals and related industries will also find the book useful as a summary and update of ore-forming processes. To this end the text is punctuated by a number of boxed case studies in which actual ore deposits, selected as classic examples from around the world, are briefly described to give context and relevance to processes being discussed in the main text.
Metallogeny, or the study of the genesis of ore deposits in relation to the global tectonic paradigm, is a topic that traditionally has been, and should remain, a core component of the university earth science curriculum. It is also the discipline that underpins the training of professional earth scientists working in the minerals and related industries of the world. A tendency in the past has been to treat economic geology as a vocational topic and to provide instruction only to those individuals who wished to specialize in the discipline or to follow a career in the minerals industries. In more recent years, changes in earth science curricula have resulted in a trend, at least in a good many parts of the world, in which economic geology has been sidelined.