1st Edition

Geochemical Methods of Prospecting for Non-Metallic Minerals

Edited By I.L. Komov, A.N. Lukashev, A.V. Koplus Copyright 1994
    400 Pages
    by CRC Press

    410 Pages
    by CRC Press

    Geochemical methods of prospecting for and evaluation of minerals are applied widely today at all stages of geological exploration. However, geochemical methods of prospecting for many classes of non-metallic minerals have not been elaborated.



    This book is a completely revised, updated and expanded edition of the publication by the same authors, which was published in 1987. The contains a collection the latest data on geochemical prospecting for non-metals, which is valuable in view of the anticipated increase of consumption and utilization of non-metallic minerals in the future.



    The information on various types of raw material is presented in the following sequence: 1) general data (genetic types, conditions of formation, geological prospecting indications); 2) indicator minerals and elements; 3) geochemical methods of prospecting along dispersion trains and haloes, plus hydrogeochemical and geobotanical methods; 4) primary endogenic haloes; 5) vertical geochemical zonality; 6) methods, stages and sequence of work.

    1. Types of non-metallic minerals and general data on geochemical methods of prospecting 2. Deposits of the first group 3. Deposits of the second group 4. Deposits of the third group 5. New types of non-metallic deposits 6. The role of analytical techniques and instrumentation in geochemical exploration 7. New progressive technologies for mineral exploration

    Biography

    I.L. Komov, A.N. Lukashev, A.V. Koplus