Giant metallic deposits: future sources of industrial metals

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Autor: Laznicka, Peter.
ISBN: 978-3-540-33091-2.
Editorial: SPRINGER DISTRIBUTION CENTER GmbH
Características: 2006, 732 Págs., 2006, Inglés, Cartoné.
Precio orientativo: 161,15 euros (IVA incluido).
Materia: Geologia/ciencias de la tierra.
Sub-materia: Mineralogia.

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Sinopsis de Giant metallic deposits: future sources of industrial metals

Metals in the earth's crust are very unevenly distributed and, traditionally, a small number of ore deposits, districts or countries have dominated the world supply and have influenced commodity prices. The importance of exceptionally large, or rich, deposits has greatly increased in the age of globalization when a small number of international corporations dominate the metals market, based on few very large ore deposits, practically anywhere in the world. Search for giant orebodies thus drives the exploration industry: not only the in-house teams of large internationals, but also hundreds of junior companies hoping to sell their significant discoveries to the 'big boys'. Geological characteristics of giant metallic deposits and their setting and the politico-economic constraints of access to and exploitation in prospective areas have been a 'hot topic' in the past fifteen years, but the knowledge generated and published h...