Provides an up-to-date introduction to the subject of ore microscopy, emphasizing the basic skills required for the study of opaque minerals in polished sections. Describes the modern ore microscope, the preparation of polished and polished-thin sections of opaque minerals and ores, and the identification of these minerals using both qualitative techniques and the quantitative methods of reflectance and microhardness measurement. Later sections discuss the interpretation of textural intergrowths of ore minerals and the determination of their paragenesis, along with the examination of coexisting minerals for determining their physio-chemical conditions of formation. Appendices contain the data necessary to identify approximately 100 of the more common ore minerals and those frequently encountered by the professional scientist.
- ISBN10 0471868795
- ISBN13 9780471868798
- Publish Date 14 July 1982 (first published 4 June 1981)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 January 1995
- Publish Country US
- Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Imprint John Wiley and Sons (WIE)
- Format Paperback
- Pages 420
- Language English