GS 438: Economic and Mining Geology
Syllabus
Classification of ore deposits. Orthomagmatic, pegmatitic and pneumatolitic deposits. Hydrothermal processes, deposit forms and classification. Weathering, supergene enrichment and residual deposits. Sedimentary, metamorphic and metamorphosed ore deposits. Important examples. Geological mapping, guides for ore search, delineation of ores, drilling, core-sampling, reserve estimation. Introduction to underground and surface mining methods. Underground exploration and sampling of ore deposits. Methods of computation of developed ore reserves. Introduction to geostatistical ore reserve estimation. Mineral resources and their classification.
Texts/References
- Robb, L. Introduction to Ore-forming processes. Blackwell Publ., Oxford, 2005
- Mookherjee, A. Ore genesis – A holistic approach, Allied Publisher, New Delhi, 1999
- Evans, A.M., Ore Geology and Industrial Minerals – An Introduction, Oxford Blackwell Scientific Publ., London, 1993
- McKinstry, H.E. Mining Geology, Asia Publ., 1980
- Evans, A.M. Introduction to Mineral Exploration, Blackwell Science, Oxford, 1995
- Hartman, H.L, Introduction to Mining Engineering, John Wiley & Sons,1987
- Journel, A.G. and Huijbregts, Ch., Mining Geostatistics, Academic Press, 1978
- Armstrong, M., Basic linear geostatistics, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1998