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Industrial Minerals and Rocks (Volume 18)
Author(s): M. Kucera (Author)
- Publisher: Elsevier Science
- Publication Date: 5 July 1984
- Language: English
- Print length: 454 pages
- ISBN-10: 0444996052
- ISBN-13: 9780444996053
Book Description
Industrial Minerals and Rocks is a collection of research papers concerning the study of industrial mineral deposits. This work is composed of 17 chapters that specifically highlight the research done by Czech and Slovak economic geologists in non-metallic deposits, including talc, magnesite, kaolin, and clay. After an introduction to the history of industrial minerals and rocks, this book goes on reviewing the origin, principal element cycle, genetic types, form, and size of these deposits. Considerable chapters describe the deposits of industrial minerals, rocks, and building raw materials. The remaining chapters deal with the geophysical methods prospecting and exploration and production of industrial raw materials, rocks, and minerals. This book will prove useful to mineral geologists and researchers.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Kuzvart’s book is the most thorough treatment of its subject known to me; it may be read profitably by all economic and general geologists. Geology
