Ores Principally we discuss ores as sources of metals However, there are many other resources bound in minerals which we find useful How many can we think.
Ores
eps.berkeley/courses/eps50/documents/lecture31.mineralresources.pdf
Water-rock interactions To concentrate a material, water must: –Transport the ions –A ‘trap’ must cause precipitation in a spatially constrained manner.
Ore deposit environments Magmatic –Cumulate deposits – fractional crystallization processes can concentrate metals (Cr, Fe, Pt) –Pegmatites – late staged.
Http://eps.berkeley.edu/courses/eps50/documents/lecture31.mineralresources.pdf.
