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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Giant Metallic Deposits
    sub title: Future Sources of Industrial Metals
  name:
    name part: Laznicka, Peter.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 732 p. 458 illus. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Explanations, Abbreviations, Units -- Civilization Based on Metals -- Data on Metallic Deposits and Magnitude Categories: the Giant and World Class Deposits -- From trace metals to giant deposits -- to Chapters 4 to 14 -- Mantle to oceans -- Young Island Arcs -- Andean-type Margins -- Cordilleran Granitoids -- Volcano-Sedimentary Orogens -- Precambrian Greenstone-Granite Terrains -- Intracratonic Orogens, Granites, Hydrothermal Deposits -- Proterozoic Intracratonic Orogens and Basins: Extension, Sedimentation, Magmatism -- Rifts, Paleo-rifts, Rifted Margins, Mantle Plumes, Anorogenic and Alkaline Magmatism -- Sedimentary Associations and Regolith -- Higher-Grade Metamorphic Associations -- Giant Deposits in Geological Context -- Giant Deposits: Industry, Economics, Politics -- Finding or Acquiring Giant Deposits.
  note: by Peter Laznicka.
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Geology
  subject:
    topic: Economic geology
  subject:
    topic: Mineral resources
  subject:
    topic: Mineralogy
  subject:
    topic: Geotechnical engineering
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Mineral Resources
  subject:
    topic: Economic Geology
  subject:
    topic: Mineralogy
  subject:
    topic: Geology
  subject:
    topic: Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences
  classification: TN260
  classification: 553
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783540330929
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-33092-5
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