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Mineral Deposits and Reserve Estimation

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Course Unit Code541-0054/03
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated5 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Compulsory
Level of Course Unit *First Cycle
Year of Study *First Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredSummer Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
DUR20Ing. Miloš Duraj, Ph.D.
CHL0091Mgr. Štěpán Chládek, Ph.D.
Summary
Student obtaines the informations about the importance of the mineral raw materials for the economy of the state. The definition of the terms "mineral” , "mineral deposit" and “mineral raw material", "mineral reserves and resources" will explained. The lectures also include mineralogical and petrographical composition of the mineral deposits, geological conditions of the mineral deposits origin, morphology of the mineral deposits and review main industry types of the mineral deposits. Signification of the classification of the mineral reserves and resources and methods of the mineral deposits estimation, are explained. Relations between estimation of the mineral deposits reserves and mine construction are explained. Explained are also problems of the mineral statistics and mineral balance.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
Goal of the subject is to provide knowledge to the university students, so he/she will
be able to understand given points at issue good enough to apply them in practical
work. Student also obtains ability to partially analyse, categorize and classify major
requirements of the mineral deposit and reserve estimation for geological works.
Course Contents
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
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
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. ISBN 978-0-521-89716-7.
JIRÁSEK J.,SIVEK M., LÁZNIČKA P. Ložiska nerostů. Anagram, Ostrava, 2010. Dostupné na http://geologie.vsb.cz/loziska/loziska/index.html
STARÝ J.(ed.) Surovinové zdroje České republiky. Nerostné suroviny 2018. Česká geologická služba, Praha, 2018, 368 s.
U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. Mineral commodity summaries 2018. U.S.Geological Survey, 2018. 200 s.
VANĚČEK, M. (ed.) Nerostné suroviny světa: Rudy a nerudy. Academia, Praha, 1995, 543 s.
Recommended Reading:
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]. ISBN 978-3-540-74168-8.
BARNES J.V. Ores and Minerals: Introducing Economic Geology. John Wiley and Sons, New York: 1991.
BERNARD J.H., POUBA Z. (eds.). Rudní ložiska a metalogeneze československé části Českého masívu. Praha, Academia, 1986. 320 s.
GUILBERT J.M., PARK J.M. The geology of ore deposits. Waveland Press Inc., Long Grove, Illinois: 2007.
HAVELKA J., ROZLOŽNÍK L. Ložiska rud. SNTL, Praha, 1990. 392 s.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Tutorials, Terrain work, Field trip
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Credit and ExaminationCredit and Examination100 (100)51
        CreditCredit33 17
        ExaminationExamination67 18