As MA y be divined from its title, this book is about mining geology. Less evident, perhaps, is the fact that it seeks to cover a field rather different from that of texts entitled Mineral Deposits or Economic Geology. Those texts, concerned primarily with the origin and nature of mineral deposits and with descriptions of representative mining districts, pr…
Sulawesi has a highly complex geology, which is reflected in a wide variety of mineralization styles, including porphyry Cu-Au, porphyry Mo, epithermal and metamorphic- and sediment-hosted Au, lateritic Ni and Fe, placer Cr, skarn and VMS. The documented mineral exploration and mining history in Sulawesi spans a period of 125 years. Gold mining started in 1896 and nickel have been produced. By …