Mineral Deposits and Reserve Estimation

Type of study	Bachelor
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	541-0054/03
Abbreviation	LNVZ
Course title	Mineral Deposits and Reserve Estimation
Credits	5
Coordinating department	Department of Geological Engineering
Course coordinator	Mgr. Štěpán Chládek, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Basic terms in economic geology
2. Main economic minerals / rocks of individual elements
3. Mineral bearing structures, textures and types of bearing bodies
4. Genetic classification of deposits
5. Magmatic deposits of liquation and protomagmatic type
6. Accumulation of rare lithophile metals connected with hysteromagmatic, pegmatite deposits and carbonatites
7. Hydrothermal metasomatic deposits: skarns, albitites, greisens and porphyry deposits
8. Hydrothermal deposits: conditions and factors influencing their formation, regional zonation and scattering geochemical aureoles of hydrothermal deposits, facies classification of hydrothermal deposits (plutonic, subvolcanic and telethermal deposits)
9. Subaerial volcano-exhalation deposits, hydrogennous and volcano-sedimentary deposits
10. Exogenous deposits: placers, residual and halmyrolytic deposits, zones of supergene enrichment, types of sedimentary deposits
11. Infiltration deposits
12. Metamorphosis and its influence on the formation of deposits
13. Conditions, estimation and calculations of the deposit storage

E-learning

http://geologie.vsb.cz/loziska/loziska/index.html

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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