Title: Handbook of Marine Mineral Deposits Author: David Spencer Cronan ISBN: 084938429X / 9780849384295 Format: Hard Cover Pages: 424 Publisher: CRC Press Year: 1999 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Description
Contents
This handbook summarizes the main advances in our understanding of marine minerals and concentrates on the deposits of proven economic potential. In cases where our knowledge may be too limited to allow defining of their economic potential, those minerals are covered regionally or by deposit type.
Handbook of Marine Mineral Deposits is divided into three sections; Marine placers, manganese nodules and crusts, and deep-sea hydrothermal mineralization. All of these mineral deposits have great potential importance to economic geologists and marine mines.
Edited by an acknowledged expert in the field, this handbook includes work by internationally renowned contributors. The new United Nations Law of the Sea, ratified by over 100 countries within the past two years, provides a framework and guidelines for deep-sea mineral exploration that increases international interest in this book. The Handbook serves as a platform from which to launch the more detailed evaluation studies that will need to take place in the 21st century before recovery can continue or commence. Handbook of Marine Mineral Deposits is useful to mineralogists, economic geologists, marine geologists, marine miners, and conservationists.
About the Editor
Contributors
Preface
Dedication
Part 1. : Placer Minerals Chapter 1 : Marine Placer Deposits and Sea-Level Changes Chapter 2 : Light Heavy Minerals on the Indian Continental Shelf, Including Beaches Chapter 3 : Tin Placer Deposits on Continental Shelves Chapter 4 : Marine Placer Gold, with Particular Reference to Nome, Alaska Chapter 5 : Marine Placer Diamonds, with Particular Reference to Southern Africa
Part 2 : Ferromanganese Oxide Minerals Chapter 6 : Resource Estimates of the Clarion-Clipperton Manganese Nodule Deposits Chapter 7 : Ferromanganese Nodules from the Central Indian Ocean Basin Chapter 8 : Manganese Nodules of the Peru Basin Chapter 9 : Cobalt-Rich Ferromanganese Crusts in the Pacific Chapter 10 : Innovations in Marine Ferromanganese Oxide Tailings Disposal
Part 3 : Hydrothermal Minerals Chapter 11 : Hydrothermal Activity on the Southern, Ultrafast-Spreading Segment Chapter 12 : Mineral Deposits at 23ºS, Central Indian Ridge : Mineralogical Features, Chemical Composition, and Isotopic Investigations Chapter 13 : Polymetallic Massive Sulfides and Gold Mineralization at Mid-Ocean Ridges and in Subduction-Related Environments Chapter 14 : Hydrothermal Mineralization in the Red Sea