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| "ORE MINERALS,
THE ", By Robert J. Waidler,
P.G. This book describes and illustrates the ore minerals that provide the
raw materials that our very civilization is based upon, and describes the
end uses of the various elements and industrial minerals. The book
consists of 340 pages (over 50,000 words of text), with 265 full color
pictures incorporated within the text. There are 183 ore minerals, 59
metallic elements, and 19 industrial minerals discussed. The main part of
the book is divided into seven sections, covering the precious metals, the
ferrous metals, the non-ferrous metals, the light and specialty metals,
the rare earths, the energy metals, and the industrial minerals. There is
a six page glossary of terms, and four appendices, which include a table
of crustal abundance of elements and an ore deposit classification, There
are two indices; a mineral index, and a specimen locality index. The
author is a licensed, professional geologist in the State of Minnesota,
with 30 years of experience in mining geology and mine engineering in both
porphyry copper deposits of Arizona, and the Mesabi Iron Range of
Minnesota. The book is bound with a plastic comb binder (allows the book
to lay flat, for copying), and is in 8.5" X 11" format. New
book, published in 2003. Shipping weight: 3 pounds Order Item BK0567 Price: $75.00 |
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