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Table of Contents Part I Principles 1. Mineral Economics and Exploration 2. Brief History of the Use of Minerals and the Development of Economic Geology 3. Materials of Mineral Deposits and their Formation 4. Petrology of mineral Deposits: Magmas, Solutions, and Sediments Part II Processes of Formation of Mineral Deposits 5. Magmatic Concentration 6. Sublimatin 7. Contact Metasomatism 8. Hydrothermal 9. Sedimentation 10. Bacteriogenic 11. submarine Exhalative and Volcanogenic 12. Evaporation 13. Residual and Mechanical Concentration 14. Oxidation and Super-gene Enrichment 15. Metamorphism 16. Summary of Origin of Mineral Deposits 17. Classification of Mineral Deposits Part III Metallic Mineral Deposits 18. The Precious Metals 19. The Nonferrous Metals 20. Iron and the Ferro-alloy Metals 21. Minor Metals and Related Nonmetals Part IV Nonmetallic Minerals 22. Energy and Coal 23. Petroleum Geology 24. Ceramic Materials 25. Structural and Building Materials 26. Metallurgical and Refractory Materials 27. Industrial and Manufacturing Materials 28. Chemical Minerals 29. Abrasives and Abrasion Minerals General References on Economic Geology INDEX