Geological Methods in Mineral Exploration and Mining
This practical step-by-step guide describes the key geological field techniques needed by today's exploration geologists involved in the search for metallic deposits. The techniques described are fundamental to the collection, storage and presentation of
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Roger Marjoribanks
Geological Methods in Mineral Exploration and Mining Second Edition
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Roger Marjoribanks 27A Axford Street Perth WA 6152 Australia [email protected]
ISBN 978-3-540-74370-5 e-ISBN 978-3-540-74375-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-74375-0 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010926490 © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1997, 2010 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
This book is written as a practical field manual to be used by geologists engaged in mineral exploration. It is also hoped that it will serve as a text and reference for students in Applied Geology courses of universities and colleges. The book aims to outline some of the practical skills that turn the graduate geologist into an explorationist. It is intended as a practical “how to” book, rather than as a text on geological or ore deposit theory. An explorationist1 is a professional, usually a geologist, who searches for ore bodies in a scientific and structured way. Mineral exploration professionals include a range of people: business people involved in financial and entrepreneurial activities in the mining industry, board members and company management no longer involved in day to day exploration but often with past hands-on experience, technical assistants, tenement managers, environmental and safety personnel, drillers, surveyors, IT specialists, geophysicists and geochemists, ore reserve specialists, various types of consultants, and the exploration geologists. Typically the exploration geologists are the jacks-of-all-trades with an overview of the team and the project. Although explorationist is a somewhat awkward and artificial term, this is the only available word to describe the totality of the skills that are needed to locate and define economic mineralization. Even the mine geologist, attempting to define ore blocks ahead of the mining crews, is an explorationist. The most fundamental and cost-effective skills of the explorationist relate to the acquisition, recording and presentation of geological knowledge so that it can be used to predict the presence of ore – these ar
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