Terminated in academic year 2021/2022

Mineral Deposits and Reserve Estimation

Type of study	Bachelor
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	541-0054/01
Abbreviation	LNVZ
Course title	Mineral Deposits and Reserve Estimation
Credits	5
Coordinating department	Department of Geological Engineering
Course coordinator	prof. Ing. Vladimír Slivka, CSc., dr. h. c.

Subject syllabus

1. Significance of the mineral economic and role raw materials for humanity
2. Classifications of the mineral deposits and their significance
3. Metalic ores deposits and their characterization
4. Industrial minerals deposits and their characterization
5. Energy mineral deposits and their characterization
6. Purpose and utilization of the reserves estimation. Fundamentals terms of the mineral deposits reserves and resources
7. Principles of the mineral deposits reserves and resources classification, national and international classifications and problems of their relations
8. Geological and mineable reserves, their significance, relations (geological, technical and economical models of the mineral deposits)
9. Conditions for the mineral deposits reseves assesment, importance and main guestions of theïr creation
10. Fundamentals mineral deposits parameters, problems of their identification
11. Quality of the mineral deposit reserves and resources
12. Main parts of the mineral deposits reserves estimation
13. Traditional and modern methods for reserves estimation
14. Connection of the Reserves Estimation and mining companies

Literature

U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. Mineral commodity summaries 2018. U.S.Geological Survey, 2018. 200 s.
RAYMOND, Loren A. Petrology: the study of igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic rocks. Boston: WCB/McGraw-Hill, c1995. ISBN 0-697-00190-3.
PHILPOTTS, Anthony R. a Jay J. AGUE. Principles of igneous and metamorphic petrology. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-521-88006-0.
BOGGS, Sam. Petrology of sedimentary rocks. Second edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. .

Advised literature

BARNES J.V. Ores and Minerals: Introducing Economic Geology. John Wiley and Sons, New York: 1991.
GUILBERT J.M., PARK J.M. The geology of ore deposits. Waveland Press Inc., Long Grove, Illinois: 2007.
FETTES, D. J. a Jacqueline DESMONS. Metamorphic rocks: a classification and glossary of terms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-521-86810-5.
BUCHER, Kurt Emil a R. H. GRAPES. Petrogenesis of metamorphic rocks. 8th edition. Berlin: Springer, [2011]. .

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