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Terminated in academic year 2015/2016

Deposits of Building Raw Materials

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction Czech
Code 541-0947/02
Abbreviation LSS
Course title Deposits of Building Raw Materials
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Geological Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Jakub Jirásek, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

The definition of the term “building raw material”. Natural stone and its
classification. Raw materials for the production of artificial aggregate. Raw
materials for the production of mortar materials and binders (lime, cement,
plaster). Technical properties of building materials. Major building raw
materials (intrusive rocks, vein igneous rocks, extrusive rocks, sedimentary
rocks, metamorphites). An overview of the Czech base of building raw materials
and their position in the Czech mineral resources. A brief overview of
European building raw materials. The importance of building raw materials for
the balance of payment of the Czech foreign trade

Literature

Evans A.M.: Ore Geology and Industrial Minerals. Blackwell Science Ltd.,
Malden /Oxford/Carlton, 1993, 389 pp.

Harben P.,W.,Kužvart M.: Industrial Minerals: a global geology.
Industrial Minerals Information Ltd., Surrey-London, 1996

Kesler S.E.: Mineral Resources, Economics and the Environment. Prentice Hall,
1994, 391 pp.

Advised literature

USGS Minerals Yearbook: Commodity Statistics and Information.Available at www:
http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/ (15.2.2016).