Gold and Other Precious Metals
Subtitle: From Ore to Market
By: by Claudia Gasparrini
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9783642771866; 9783642771842
Subjects: Mines and mineral resources; Surfaces (Physics); Geography; Mineralogy
Description: This is a book which views and presents the gold and other precious metal extractions from a new wider angle, extending to include both the Earth and the metallurgical sciences. Some of the topics are: - Gold and silver mineral occurrences in their ores; - Photomicrographs of refractory and amenable mineral/ores; - How irregular gold and silver distributions may be used for the efficient planning of the extraction process; - Microanalytical techniques; - Descriptions or uranium and many base metals for comparison. The book is written for a broad audience, from the manager of operations to the metallurgist, field geologist and other earth scientists, to the professor and student alike.
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