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…
This book come about because of my poor memory : it is amazing how quickly and easly an experienced electron microscopist/mineralogist can identify minerals with an Energy Dispersive Spectrometer (EDS). It is also amazing how long it takes someone who is not good at mineralogy to search through a mineralogy text,trying to match the peaks on their unknown spectrum with the chemical formula of so…