You can download Structural Control of Mineral Deposits: Theory and Reality ebook here.
- Title: Structural Control of Mineral Deposits: Theory and Reality
- Special Issue Editor: Alain Chuvet
- Publisher: Printed Edition of the Special Issue Published in Minerals
- Pages: 258
We welcome case studies showing how structural geology influences mineral deposit models and exploration programs.
We particularly welcome examples in which the structural model diverges from those described in the classical literature, including studies that suspect and/or demonstrate relationships with magmatism. Cases illustrating concepts different from classic and theoretical models may significantly contribute to this volume.
This compilation of publications summarizes over 20 years of questioning and applying structural geology in mining geology by the guest editor. If it is common to place the various deposits of the earth into large classes that allow recognizing and identifying some characters useful to detect, explore, and find other similar deposits, experience demonstrates that each deposit is unique and cannot answer perfectly to a generic model.
This is why we suspect that there exists a gap between theory (i.e., the classical model) and reality that needs to be estimated and taken into account in any type expertise or study of an unknown mineral deposit. The following publications try to be concerned by this way of working.