Terminated in academic year 2023/2024

Mineral Deposits

Type of study	Bachelor
Language of instruction	English
Code	541-0212/12
Abbreviation	LNS
Course title	Mineral Deposits
Credits	5
Coordinating department	Department of Geological Engineering
Course coordinator	Ing. Miloš Duraj, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Importance of mineral resources for the economy of the state, basic terms: mineral resource, deposit, influencing factors.
2. Mineral composition of mineral deposits, welcome and unwelcome admixtures, shapes of bearing bodies, types of classification of mineral deposits.
3.-4. Geological conditions of formation of mineral deposits, magmatic, pegmatite, carbonatite, greisen, contact-metasomatic, hydrothermal, hydrothermal sedimentary, hydrothermal, weathering, sedimentary, metamorphic deposits.
5. Industrial types of ore deposits (iron group metals, non-ferrous metals, rare metals, precious metals, trace elements, rare earths).
6. Industrial types of non-ore deposits (construction raw materials, raw materials of the chemical and food industry and agriculture, industrial non-metallic raw materials).
7-8 Current types of fuel-energy raw materials (caustobiolites - group of coal, group of natural hydrocarbons. Radioactive raw materials).
9-10 Industrial types of hydro-mineral raw materials and gases (mineral waters and gases, diesel waters with Br, I, B. brines, hydrothermal waters, fresh drinking waters and waters for technological use, sea water, inert gases).
11. Brief overview of the mineral resource base of the Czech Republic.
12. World markets of mineral raw materials.
13. Prices of mineral raw materials.

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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