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Raw-materials and their Utilization

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 541-0274/09
Abbreviation SJV
Course title Raw-materials and their Utilization
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Geological Engineering
Course coordinator Mgr. Štěpán Chládek, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Explanation of the basic terms (natural resource, mineral resource, deposit), their classification and factors influencing their meaning. Importance of mineral resources for the economy of the state and the world. Main factors determining the future world development in the extraction and consumption of mineral resources. Systematic description of mineral resources in terms of their use.
2. Metallic mineral resources (ores): metals of the iron group - Fe, Mn, Cr, Ti;
3. Non-ferrous metals - Cu, Pb, Zn, Ni, Co, Al, Mg; rare metals - W, Sn, Hg, As, Mo, V, Sb, Bi, Li, Be;
4. Precious metals - Au, Ag, platinoids; trace elements - In, Ga, Ge, Se, Te etc.;
5. Non-metallic mineral resources (non-metallic): building materials - granite, granodiorites, diorites, limestones, marbles, travertines, sandstone, etc.; raw materials of the chemical and food industries and agriculture - apatites, phosphorites, potassium salts, stone salt, saturation limestone, etc.; 6. Industrial non-metallic raw materials; ceramic, refractory and acid-resistant raw materials; glassmaking raw materials; foundry raw materials; fillers; bleaching and filtration raw materials; insulating materials;
7. Raw materials of the paint industry; abrasives and raw materials for the production of artificial abrasives; precious and semi-precious stones; raw materials for special purposes (optical, piezo and pyroelectric, etc.);
8. Fuel-energy raw materials: caustic biolities (coal group - peat, brown coal, black coal, anthracite, coal-scented gases; natural hydrocarbons group - oil, natural gas, bituminous shale, oil sands, asphalt, earth wax);
9. Radioactive raw materials - U, Th, Ra.
10. Hydromineral raw materials and gases: mineral waters and gases; diesel waters with Br, I, B, etc.; brines; hydrothermal waters; fresh drinking water and waters for technological use; seawater; inert gases - He, Ar, Ne, Kr, etc.
11. The most important mineral recovery and processing technologies: Iron and Steel Production.
12. Production of the most important inorganic binders (lime, cement, gypsum), Glass, Ceramics, Plastics, Paper, Rock Melting Technology.
13. Inorganic Dyes and Pigments Group, Processing of Precious
Decorative Rocks and Minerals, Oil and Coal Processing.

Literature

KESLER S. E.: Mineral Resources, Economics and the Environment. Prentice Hall, 1994, 1-391.
HARBEN, P.,W., KUŽVART,M.: Industrial Minerals: a global geology. Industrial Minerals Information Ltd., Surrey-London, 1996.
WALTER L. POHL: Economic Geology. Principles and Practice. ISBN: 978-1-444-33663-4  April 2011 Wiley-Blackwell.
NEUKIRCHENV F., GUNNAR R. The World of Mineral Deposits. Springer, 2020, 377 s. ISBN 978-3-030-34345-3 .

Advised literature

RICHARD M. MCKENZIE, ed.: The Economic Constitution in Historical Perspective. Constitutional Economics. Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath. 1984
LAZNICKA, P.: Giant Metallic Deposits. Future Sources of Industrial Metals. Berlin: Springer, 2006. 1-732, 1997
RIDLEY J.: Ore Deposi Geology. New York, CAmbridge University Press, 1-409, ISBN 978-1-107-02222-5 
Le MAITRE R. W. ed.: Igneous Rocks. A Classification and Glossary of Therm. Recommendations of the International Union of Geological Sciences Subcommisions on the Systematic of Igneous Rocks. 2002, Cambridge Univ. Press. ISBN-13 978-0-521-66215-4 , 1-236.