The Ore Minerals Under The Microscope

Author : Bernhard Pracejus
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 1119 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780444627377

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The Ore Minerals Under the Microscope by Bernhard Pracejus Pdf

The Ore Minerals Under the Microscope: An Optical Guide, Second Edition, is a very detailed color atlas for ore/opaque minerals (ore microscopy), with a main emphasis on name and synonyms, short descriptions, mineral groups, chemical compositions, information on major formation environments, optical data, reflection color/shade comparison with four common/standard minerals of a similar color or grey shade, and up to five high-quality photos for each mineral with scale. In addition, the atlas contains a compilation from some of the prominent publications in the field of ore microscopy presented on a list of 431 minerals. Concise, full-color pictorial reference for scientists and geologists Explains how to describe and identify microscopic samples of minerals Draws material from prominent literature yielding more than 400 different minerals

Author : Bernhard Pracejus
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 895 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-11
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780444528636

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The Ore Minerals Under the Microscope by Bernhard Pracejus Pdf

"This book is a very detailed ore microscopy atlas in colour, containing observations for some 430 minerals (mostly opaques and a few gangue minerals). Its main emphasis lies on the display of the respective mineral's most important optical properties (shown in up to 5 high-quality photos for each mineral with scale). The colour plates are supplemented by brief tabulated data, such as name and synonyms, mineral group, chemical composition, major formation environment, reflection colour/shade, and reflectivity. Wherever reflectivity data were not available, the respective value was estimated on the basis of some 4 common/standard minerals of a similar colour or grey shade."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Bernhard Pracejus
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 894 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080931642

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The Ore Minerals Under the Microscope by Bernhard Pracejus Pdf

This is a very detailed colour atlas for ore/opaque minerals (ore microscopy) with the main emphasis on name and synonyms, mineral group, chemical composition, information about major formation environment, optical data, reflection colour/shade comparison with 4 common/standard minerals of a similar colour or grey shade, up to 5 high-quality photos for each mineral with scale, and a short description of the pictures. A compilation from some of the prominent publications in the field of ore microscopy yielded a list of 431 minerals are included in this atlas. * Concise full-color pictorial reference for scientists and geologists * Explains how to describe and identify microscopic samples of minerals * Draws material from prominent literature yielding over 400 different minerals

Author : James R. Craig,David J. Vaughan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1981-06-04
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015001920787

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Ore Microscopy by James R. Craig,David J. Vaughan Pdf

Provides an up-to-date introduction to the subject of ore microscopy, emphasizing the basic skills required for the study of opaque minerals in polished sections. Describes the modern ore microscope, the preparation of polished and polished-thin sections of opaque minerals and ores, and the identification of these minerals using both qualitative techniques and the quantitative methods of reflectance and microhardness measurement. Later sections discuss the interpretation of textural intergrowths of ore minerals and the determination of their paragenesis, along with the examination of coexisting minerals for determining their physio-chemical conditions of formation. Appendices contain the data necessary to identify approximately 100 of the more common ore minerals and those frequently encountered by the professional scientist.

Author : W. Uytenbogaardt,Ernest Alexander Julius Burke
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0486648397

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Tables for Microscopic Identification of Ore Minerals by W. Uytenbogaardt,Ernest Alexander Julius Burke Pdf

Invaluable reference for geologists, mineralogists lists and describes about 500 ore minerals according to criteria of "hardness" and "reflectance." Indispensable identification aid. Bibliography.

Author : JAYA PRAKASH SHRIVASTAVA,NISHI RANI
Publisher : PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9788120346659

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INTRODUCTION TO ORE MICROSOCOPY by JAYA PRAKASH SHRIVASTAVA,NISHI RANI Pdf

Introduction to Ore Microscopy is a brief introduction to the science of Ore Minerals. It is designed to help undergraduate and postgraduate students of Geology and Earth Science for their practical course. The book gives a comprehensive, handy and scientific description of ores which form a part of Ore Geology and Economic Geology. Illustrated with a wealth of full-colour and black-and-white polished section photographs, the book explains how to observe ores under the microscope in the reflected light. Besides dealing with the texture, structures, and paragenesis of ore minerals, it also deals with the methodology to study physical and optical characters of important ore minerals, such as Sulphides, Arsenides, Antimonides, Molybdenites, Tungstate, and Oxides ores. A brief description mineral paragenesis, paragenetic diagrams, and some important ore-deposits of India and other parts of the world are also given. The book will also prove to be useful for those working in the mineral industry.

Author : Eugene Nathan Cameron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Microscope and microscopy
ISBN : UCAL:B4120767

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Ore Microscopy by Eugene Nathan Cameron Pdf

The ore microscope; The preparation of polished surfaces; The physical properties of ore minerals in polished sections; The optical properties of ore minerals; Theory of reflected light; Microchemical techniques; Systems of mineral identification; Applications of ore microscopy.

Author : David J. Vaughan,Mineralogical Association of Canada
Publisher : Nepean, Ont. : Mineralogical Association of Canada
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Chemical microscopy
ISBN : UCAL:B4452880

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Advanced Microscopic Studies of Ore Minerals by David J. Vaughan,Mineralogical Association of Canada Pdf

Author : William D. Nesse
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Mineralogy, Determinative
ISBN : UCSD:31822005681184

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Introduction to Optical Mineralogy by William D. Nesse Pdf

The purpose of this book is to serve the needs of students in learning the procedures and theory required to use the petrographic microscope. In the second edition the book has been updated and there has been a number of changes.

Author : M. N. Short
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Geology
ISBN : UIUC:30112026958485

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Microscopic Determination of the Ore Minerals by M. N. Short Pdf

Author : Bernhard Schulz
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783036506227

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Applications of SEM Automated Mineralogy by Bernhard Schulz Pdf

During the last decade, software developments in Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) provoked a notable increase of applications to the study of solid matter. The mineral liberation analysis (MLA) of processed metal ores was an important drive for innovations that led to QEMSCAN, MLA and other software platforms. These combine the assessment of the backscattered electron (BSE) image to the directed steering of the electron beam for energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) to automated mineralogy. However, despite a wide distribution of SEM instruments in material research and industry, the potential of SEM automated mineralogy is still under-utilised. The characterisation of primary ores, and the optimisation of comminution, flotation, mineral concentration and metallurgical processes in the mining industry by generating quantified data, is still the major application field of SEM automated mineralogy. However, there is interesting potential beyond these classical fields of geometallurgy and metal ore fingerprinting. Slags, pottery and artefacts can be studied in an archeological context for the recognition of provenance and trade pathways; soil, and solid particles of all kinds, are objects in forensic science. SEM automated mineralogy allows new insight in the fields of process chemistry and recycling technology.

Author : W. Petruk
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0080527337

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Applied Mineralogy in the Mining Industry by W. Petruk Pdf

Techniques of performing applied mineralogy investigations, and applications and capabilities of recently developed instruments for measuring mineral properties are explored in this book intended for practicing applied mineralogists, students in mineralogy and metallurgy, and mineral processing engineers. The benefits of applied mineralogy are presented by using in-depth applied mineralogy studies on base metal ores, gold ores, porphyry copper ores, iron ores and industrial minerals as examples. The chapter on base metal ores includes a discussion on the effects of liberation, particle sizes and surfaces coatings of Pb, Cu, Fe, Ca and So4- on the recoveries of sphalerite, galena and chalcopyrite. The chapter on gold discusses various methods of determining the quantities of gold in different minerals, including 'invisible' gold in pyrite and arsenopyrite, so that a balance of the distribution of gold among the minerals can be calculated. This book also discusses the roles of pyrite, oxygen, moisture and bacterial (thiobacillus ferrooxidans) on reactions that produce acidic drainage from tailings piles, and summarizes currently used and proposed methods of remediation of acidic drainage.

Author : Daniel David Marshall,Carolyn Diane Anglin,A. Hamid Mumin,Geological Association of Canada. Mineral Deposits Division
Publisher : St. John's, Nfld. : Geological Association of Canada, Mineral Deposits Division
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Nature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114530780

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Ore Mineral Atlas by Daniel David Marshall,Carolyn Diane Anglin,A. Hamid Mumin,Geological Association of Canada. Mineral Deposits Division Pdf

Author : Colin Gribble
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401178044

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A Practical Introduction to Optical Mineralogy by Colin Gribble Pdf

Microscopy is a servant of all the sciences, and the microscopic examina tion of minerals is an important technique which should be mastered by all students of geology early in their careers. Advanced modern text books on both optics and mineralogy are available, and our intention is not that this new textbook should replace these but that it should serve as an introductory text or a first stepping-stone to the study of optical mineralogy. The present text has been written with full awareness that it will probably be used as a laboratory handbook, serving as a quick reference to the properties of minerals, but nevertheless care has been taken to present a systematic explanation of the use of the microscope as well as theoretical aspects of optical mineralogy. The book is therefore suitable for the novice either studying as an individual or participating in classwork. Both transmitted-light microscopy and reflected-light microscopy are dealt with, the former involving examination of transparent minerals in thin section and the latter involving examination of opaque minerals in polished section. Reflected-light microscopy is increasing in importance in undergraduate courses on ore mineralisation, but the main reason for combining the two aspects of microscopy is that it is no longer acceptable to neglect opaque minerals in the systematic petrographic study of rocks. Dual purpose microscopes incorporating transmitted- and reflected-light modes are readily available, and these are ideal for the study of polished thin sections.

Author : C.D. Gribble
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461596929

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Optical Mineralogy by C.D. Gribble Pdf

This book is the successor to A practical introduction to optical mineralogy, which was written in the early 1980s, and published by George Allen & Unwin in 1985. Our intention, once again, is to introduce the student of geology to the microscopic examination of minerals, by both transmitted and reflected light. These techniques should be mastered by students early in their careers, and this text has been proposed in the full awareness that it will be used as a laboratory handbook, serving as a quick reference to the properties of minerals. However, care has been taken to present a systematic explanation of the use of the microscope, as well as to include an extended explanation of the theoretical aspects of optical crystallography in transmitted light. The book is therefore intended as a serious text that introduces the study of minerals under the microscope to the intending honours student of geology, as well as providing information for the novice or interested layman.