GEOE 363 : Economic Geology

Department

Department of Mining Engineering

Academic Program

Bachelor in Mining Engineering

Type

Compulsory

Credits

03

Prerequisite

GeoE 220GeoE 230

Overview

Study of the nature, classification, mineral association and origin of ore deposits, a brief history of the use of minerals and the development of economic geology, migration of ore-bearing fluids, structural and chemical controls on ore deposition, zoning in ore minerals, magmatic segregation (cr, ti, fe, ni, cu, pt) deposits, mineral texture and paragenesis, mineral deposits of pegmatites, hydrothermal deposits including epithermal, telethermal, mesothermal, xenothermal. volcanogenic deposits, contact and regional metamorphic deposits, open space filling and replacement, sedimentary deposits, mechanical and chemical, supergene enrichement, examples of economic mineral deposits in the world including placers, precambrian quartz pebble conglomerates, Pb-Zn deposits, and unconformity-related U deposits, roll front U, and porphery Cu deposits, kemberlite pipes, carbonatite ore depoite, and albitite, microclinite, and greisen Ore deposit, resources ore deposits from the ocean floor, Mn- bearing deposits, mineral deposits and plate tectonic, brief studying nonmetallic ore deposits (ground water and oil, natural gas), and ore deposited in libya, lab: maps and cross sections of mineral bodies using drill hole data. study of polished sections of some economic ore deposits, mineral textures of Ores