Mineralogy category: 387 books
by Edwin W. Streeter
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience. Carefully selecting the best articles from our collection we have compiled a series of historical and informative publications on the...
Cement Replacement Materials
Properties, Durability, Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
The aim of this book is to present the latest findings in the properties and application of Supplementary Cementing Materials and blended cements currently used in the world in concrete. Sustainability is an important issue all over the world. Carbon dioxide emission has been a serious problem in...
Stone in Architecture
Properties, Durability
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
The weathering of historical buildings and, indeed, of monuments and sculptures of natural stone is a problem that has been encountered for hundreds of years. However, a dramatic increase in deterioration in the structure of our built heritage has been observed during the past century. To understand...
by Roger Russell
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Copper has been mined at a site in the North of Namibia since ancient times. People reputedly came from all over the world; as far afield as Rome and England to buy the precious metal. The ore body was laid down by volcanic activity followed by water infiltration and other geological events. The rock...
The Physical & Optical Properties of Gemstones
Gemstone Identification Using Physical & Optical Properties
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This book contains a wealth of information on the physical and optical properties of gemstones. It covers in great detail each facet of these properties in the hope it will assist you, the reader, in correctly identifying gemstones. This publication has been written for both the experienced gem fossicker...
Identification of Diamonds
Australian Gemstones Series Book 14
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
This book takes a look at diamonds, in particular the common forms of diamond, rocks in which diamonds are found in nature, diamond types, electrical behaviour, thermal conductivity, chemical composition, crystallography, hardness, specific gravity, determining synthetic diamonds to natural, colour,...
Early Australian Diamond Discoveries
Information on Where Diamonds have been Found in Australia & How to Identify Them
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
This book contains stories on early Australian diamond discoveries, and also includes details on how to identify the diamonds you find. The information included has come from early original newspaper sources. Through the passage of time, many Australian diamond locations have been forgotten. The aim...
Identificaton of Pearls
Australian Gemstones Series Book 8
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2016
This book contains a wealth of information on all aspects of pearls, saltwater and freshwater, their appearance, diagnostic properties, common treatments and imitations.
Designed for the beginner or experienced, it will greatly assist those wishing to find out more about how to correctly identify...
by B. Ronald Frost, Carol D. Frost
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
All geoscience students need to understand the origins, environments and basic processes that produce igneous and metamorphic rocks. This concise textbook, written specifically for one-semester undergraduate courses, provides students with the key information they need to understand these processes....
Mineral Resources
From Exploration to Sustainability Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
This comprehensive textbook covers all major topics related to the utilization of mineral resources for human activities. It begins with general concepts like definitions of mineral resources, mineral resources and humans, recycling mineral resources, distribution of minerals resources across Earth,...
by Roger F. Robison
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Presented here is the story of the mining and sale of uranium and radium ore through biographical vignettes, chemistry, physics, geology, geography, occupational health, medical utilization, environmental safety and industrial history. Included are the people and places involved over the course of...
by Roger Marjoribanks
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book is written as a practical field manual to effective. Each geolOgist has to develop his/her be used by geologists engaged in mineral explo own techniques and will ultimately be judged on ration. It is also hoped that it will serve as a text results, not the process by which these results...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Metamorphic rocks are one of the three classes of rocks. Seen on a global scale they constitute the dominant material of the Earth. The understanding of the petrogenesis and significance of metamorphic of geological education. rocks is, therefore, a fundamental topic There are, of course, many different...
Geohistory
Global Evolution of the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Discusses the global evolution of the earth, such as core- mantle separation, mantle-crust evolution, origin of ocean- atmosphere system, on the basis of isotope earth science and paleomagnetism, where recent devlopment in planetology and astrophysical theories are extensively taken into account.