Lecture 9

Mineral Resources & Society 

Today's objectives -

• To learn what mineral resources are and their terminology.
• To learn how mineral resources are formed.

Vocabulary -

Resource -
Reserve -
Reserve lifetime -
Ore -
High grade -
Low grade -
Average crustal abundance -
Concentration factor -
Igneous -
Magma -
Dissolution & chemical reactions -
Sedimentary  -
Placer deposits -

Lecture Outline -

Resources and terminology
Mineral resources - Abundant & Scarce
Concentration factors & economics
Deposit formation
Igneous
Hydrothermal
Sedimentary
Weathering
Metamorphic