Handbook of Marine Mineral Deposits

Title: Handbook of Marine Mineral Deposits
Author: David Spencer Cronan
ISBN: 084938429X / 9780849384295
Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 424
Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 1999
Availability: 2 to 3 weeks

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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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About the Editor
Contributors
Preface
Dedication

Part 1. : Placer Minerals
Chapter 1 : Marine Placer Deposits and Sea-Level Changes
Chapter 2 : Light Heavy Minerals on the Indian Continental Shelf, Including Beaches
Chapter 3 : Tin Placer Deposits on Continental Shelves
Chapter 4 : Marine Placer Gold, with Particular Reference to Nome, Alaska
Chapter 5 : Marine Placer Diamonds, with Particular Reference to Southern Africa

Part 2 : Ferromanganese Oxide Minerals
Chapter 6 : Resource Estimates of the Clarion-Clipperton Manganese Nodule Deposits
Chapter 7 : Ferromanganese Nodules from the Central Indian Ocean Basin
Chapter 8 : Manganese Nodules of the Peru Basin
Chapter 9 : Cobalt-Rich Ferromanganese Crusts in the Pacific
Chapter 10 : Innovations in Marine Ferromanganese Oxide Tailings Disposal

Part 3 : Hydrothermal Minerals
Chapter 11 : Hydrothermal Activity on the Southern, Ultrafast-Spreading Segment
Chapter 12 : Mineral Deposits at 23ºS, Central Indian Ridge : Mineralogical Features, Chemical Composition, and Isotopic Investigations
Chapter 13 : Polymetallic Massive Sulfides and Gold Mineralization at Mid-Ocean Ridges and in Subduction-Related Environments
Chapter 14 : Hydrothermal Mineralization in the Red Sea

Index