The Ore Minerals Under the Microscope

Download or read book The Ore Minerals Under the Microscope written by Bernhard Pracejus and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2008-11-11 with total page 895 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a very detailed ore microscopy atlas in colour, containing observations for some 430 minerals (mostly opaques and a few gangue minerals). Its main emphasis lies on the display of the respective mineral's most important optical properties (shown in up to 5 high-quality photos for each mineral with scale). The colour plates are supplemented by brief tabulated data, such as name and synonyms, mineral group, chemical composition, major formation environment, reflection colour/shade, and reflectivity. Wherever reflectivity data were not available, the respective value was estimated on the basis of some 4 common/standard minerals of a similar colour or grey shade."--BOOK JACKET.