A concept has been mistakenly attributed to the authors of the book while it should have been attributed to the authors of an article in it. The reference of the following sentence should therefore be Valero et al., 2010 rather than Stanek et al., 2010. ‘The exergy of mineral deposits can be referenced to a “zero level” state that corresponds to the average concentration of the elements of the ...

Mississippi Valley-type (MVT) ore deposits arc epigenetic carbonate-hosted Pb-Zn deposits that contain galena, sphalerite, fluorite, bar&e, dolomite, calcite, and quartz. Although they are thought to form from basinal brines, their exact origins are still unclear, partly because of the scarcity of reliable geochronological data. Rb-Sr dating of sphalerites has recently been shown to be a promis...

introduction there is an iron mining complex called shahrak 60 km east of takab town, nw iran. the exploration in the shahrak deposit (general name for all iron deposits of the area) started in 1992 by foolad saba noor co. and continued in several periods until 2008. the shahrak deposit comprising 10 ore deposits including korkora-1, korkora-2, shahrak-1, shahrak-2, shahrak-3, cheshmeh, golezar...

A large number of unexploited low-grade vanadium-titanium magnetite deposits have been found in the Chao-yang area of China in recent years. The reserves are estimated at more than 20 billion tons. A mineralogical study of raw sample indicated that it was a typical low-grade vanadium-titanium magnetite ore with weathering. Most of vanadium-titanium magnetite was replaced by martite and sphene, ...