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B015673 - GEORESOURCES
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Course program
Academic Year 2013-14
Course year
Third year - Second Semester
Belonging Department
Earth Sciences (DST)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
GEO/09 - MINING RESOURCES, MINERALOGIC AND PETROGRAPHIC APPLICATIONS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
48
Teaching Term
03/03/2014 ⇒ 13/06/2014
Attendance required
No
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Lectureship
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
Features, limitations and fragility of the Earth’s resources. Classification and description of the main geo-resources.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
Evans A.M. Ore geology and industrial minerals. Blackwell Science
Learning Objectives
Introduction on the nature of mineral resources, ore geology and their origin, ore and industrial minerals
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of geology, mineralogy, geochemistry and petrology
Teaching Methods
CFU:6
Total hours of the course (including the time spent in attending lectures, seminars, private study, examinations, etc...): 150
Total hours of the course (including the time spent in attending lectures, seminars, private study, examinations, etc...): 150
Type of Assessment
practical and oral test
Course program
Some elementary aspects of mineral economics, civilization and ore resources.
Nature and morphology of the principal types of ore deposit.
Some major theories of ore genesis.
Classification of ore deposits: diamond deposits, the carbonatite-alkaline igneous ore environment, pegmatitic environment, orthomagmatic deposits, greisens, skarn, disseminated and stockwork deposits.
Stratiform sulphide, oxide and sulphate deposits.
Hydrothermal deposit types, strata-bound deposits, sedimentary deposits, residual and supergene enrichment.
Industrial minerals.
Mineralization in space and time, the global distribution of ore deposits: metallogenic provinces and epochs, plate
tectonic controls, Ore mineralization through geological time.
Recovery and recycling. The earth resources of the future
Nature and morphology of the principal types of ore deposit.
Some major theories of ore genesis.
Classification of ore deposits: diamond deposits, the carbonatite-alkaline igneous ore environment, pegmatitic environment, orthomagmatic deposits, greisens, skarn, disseminated and stockwork deposits.
Stratiform sulphide, oxide and sulphate deposits.
Hydrothermal deposit types, strata-bound deposits, sedimentary deposits, residual and supergene enrichment.
Industrial minerals.
Mineralization in space and time, the global distribution of ore deposits: metallogenic provinces and epochs, plate
tectonic controls, Ore mineralization through geological time.
Recovery and recycling. The earth resources of the future