Giant Metallic Deposits: Future Sources of Industrial Metals
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Giant Metallic Deposits: Future Sources of Industrial Metals
Giant Metallic Deposits: Future Sources of Industrial Metals
By Peter Laznicka
Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 732
Publication Date: 2006-06-15
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 3540330917
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9783540330912
Binding: Hardcover
Metals in the earth’s crust are very unevenly distributed and, traditionally, a small number of ore deposits, districts or countries have dominated the world supply and have influenced commodity prices. The importance of exceptionally large, or rich, deposits has greatly increased in the age of globalization when a small number of international corporations dominate the metals market, based on few very large ore deposits, practically anywhere in the world. Search for giant orebodies thus drives the exploration industry: not only the in-house teams of large internationals, but also hundreds of junior companies hoping to sell their significant discoveries to the “big boys”.
Geological characteristics of giant metallic deposits and their setting and the politico-economic constraints of access to and exploitation in prospective areas have been a “hot topic” in the past fifteen years, but the knowledge generated and published has been one-sided, scattered and fragmented. This is the first comprehensive book on the subject that provides body of solid facts rather than rapidly changing theories, written by author of the Empirical Metallogeny book series and founder of the Data Metallogenica visual knowledge system on mineral deposits of the world, who has had an almost 40 years long international academic and industrial experience. The book will provide abundant material for comparative research in metallogeny, practical information for the explorationists as to where to look for the “elephants”, and some inspiration for commodity investors.
Summary: Comprehensive catalog with some background information
Rating: 3
The majority of this book takes the form of a catalog of so-called “giant” metallic deposits. I am sure that the author is correct in his view that these deposits will provide most of the world’s new supply of metals in the decades to come. The book has an enthralling introductory chapter on the chemical elements, their uses, sources and history; this chapter shows the author’s immense knowledge of his subject at its best. I especially enjoyed his thoughts on sea water and desalination plants as a future supply of metals. In the subsequent chapters I would have liked to see more information on “how” and “why” these giant deposits formed, instead of a simple and (to my taste) rather dry catalog of the deposits.
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