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Formerly titles "Rocks and Minerals" this handbook includes information on collecting and identifying minerals, sections on metallic, nonmetallic, gem and rock-forming minerals, and descriptions of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks.
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This comprehensive reference is the first to cover industrially important borates, from deposits, through chemistry, mining, processing, and applications. The reference work begins with a listing of the 238 currently known borate minerals, their formulas,... [ More...]
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Stressing the fundamental solid state behavior of minerals, and emphasizing both theory and experiment, this text surveys the physics and chemistry of earth materials. The author begins with a systematic tour of crystal chemistry of both simple and complex... [ More...]
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A collection of review articles by eminent petrologists, summarizing recent scientific achievements in this field. The papers address the physico-chemical conditions of the origin of crystalline rocks as well as characteristics of their mineral assemblages.... [ More...]
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This second edition 'Gemmology' has been expanded and updated throughout by the well known writer and editor of Butterworth-Heinemann's gemmology series, Peter Read. This is a much needed update of a classic text and new syllabus information and sample... [ More...]
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Feldspar minerals make up 60% of the crust of the Earth. They are stable in the upper mantle, and are so abundant in the crust that they form the basis of the classification of igneous rocks. At the surface, feldspars weather to form clay minerals which are... [ More...]
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In practical language, this publication addresses what crystalline silica is, where it is found and used, and how it is identified. This book discusses the regulatory decisions that have created new interest in this ubiquitous substance and presents an... [ More...]
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This book presents the third volume of a complete developmentof the new structural classification of minerals, which is based onthe internal crystal structure, and is therefore its naturalclassification. Because of the large domain of the mineral kingdom,... [ More...]
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