Marine placers, phosphorite deposits, deep-sea manganese nodules, and deep-sea hydrothermal mineralization are the types of potentially commercial important underwater minerals the 14 studies address. Contributors from industry and academia discuss such topics as light heavy minerals on the Indian continental shelf and beaches, resource estimates of the Clarion-Clipperton manganese nodule deposits, innovations in marine ferromanganese oxide tailings disposal, polymetallic massive sulfides and gold mineralization at mid-ocean ridges and in subduction-related environments, and hydrothermal mineralization in the Red Sea. The material might interest mineralogists, petrologists, physical oceanographers, and geologists. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
This handbook summarizes the main advances in our understanding of marine minerals and concentrates on the deposits of proven economic potential. In cases where our knowledge may be too limited to allow defining of their economic potential, those minerals are covered regionally or by deposit type.
Handbook of Marine Mineral Deposits is divided into three sections; Marine placers, manganese nodules and crusts, and deep-sea hydrothermal mineralization. All of these mineral deposits have great potential importance to economic geologists and marine mines.
Edited by an acknowledged expert in the field, this handbook includes work by internationally renowned contributors. The new United Nations Law of the Sea, ratified by over 100 countries within the past two years, provides a framework and guidelines for deep-sea mineral exploration that increases international interest in this book. The Handbook serves as a platform from which to launch the more detailed evaluation studies that will need to take place in the 21st century before recovery can continue or commence.
Handbook of Marine Mineral Deposits is
useful to mineralogists, economic geologists, marine geologists, marine miners, and conservationists.
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