Applied Mineralogy: Applications in Industry and Environment

✍ Scribed by Swapna Mukherjee (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 584
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book covers the entire spectrum of mineralogy and consolidates its applications in different fields. Part I starts with the very basic concept of mineralogy describing in detail the implications of the various aspects of mineral chemistry, crystallographic structures and their effects producing different mineral properties. Part II of the book describes different aspects of mineralogy like geothermobarometry, mineral thermodynamics and phase diagrams, mineral exploration and analysis, and marine minerals. Finally Part III handles the applications in industrial, medicinal and environmental mineralogy along with precious and semiprecious stone studies. The various analytical techniques and their significance in handling specific types of mineralogical problems are also covered.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Minerals and Their Chemical Classification....Pages 13-22
Mineral Crystals And Structural Classification....Pages 23-53
Mineral Chemistry....Pages 54-79
Physical Properties....Pages 80-100
Optical Mineralogy And Its Uses....Pages 101-135
Special Mineral Properties And Related Structures....Pages 136-154
Descriptive Mineralogy....Pages 155-209
Front Matter....Pages 211-211
Energetics, Thermodynamics and Stability of Minerals....Pages 213-230
Origin Of Minerals And Their Transformations In Nature Under Various Environmental Conditions....Pages 231-261
Mineral Deposits and Their Characteristics....Pages 262-280
Marine Minerals in Different Environments....Pages 281-300
Minerals and Mineral Associations as Geothermometers and Geobarometers....Pages 301-315
Front Matter....Pages 317-317
Common Analytical Techniques in Mineralogical Studies....Pages 319-365
Precious and Semiprecious Stones....Pages 366-401
Mineralogy in Exploration of Mineral Deposits Using Magnetic, Electrical and Gravitational Properties....Pages 402-415
Synthesis of Selected Minerals (Crystals) in Laboratory and Industry....Pages 416-424
Industrial Mineralogy: Mineral Processing, Beneficiations and Other Related Mineral Usage....Pages 428-489
Environmental Mineralogy....Pages 490-525
Concept of Geomedicine and Medicinal Mineralogy....Pages 526-562
Back Matter....Pages 571-575

✦ Subjects

Mineralogy; Economic Geology; Ceramics, Glass, Composites, Natural Methods; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution