This book focuses on understanding Earth's geology, its mineral resources, their exploration, and management of the environment. There are 3 parts and 12 chapters, and they provide an insight to the students of earth sciences. Part I, consisting of initial four chapters, provides snapshots on the Universe, the Earth, and its internal dynamics, and external geological processes. The mineral resources are covered in Part II with 5 chapters, featuring Earth's elements, metals, minerals, rocks, and the mineral resources. As they are non-renewable, the importance of their scientific exploration, evaluation, mining, beneficiation, optimum utilization, and adverse impact, safety management, and environment are covered in the last 3 chapters in Part III.

Serves as a one-stop solution for graduate students as it provides comprehensive geological knowledge Is written in a simple and easy style to follow Covers the earth's internal dynamics and external geological agents

Autorentext

Dr. RK Upadhyay received his M.Sc. Tech. degree in mineral exploration from Vikram University, India in 1986 and Ph.D. from the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, India, in 2010. He is an expert in the fields of remote sensing, geological exploration, quality assurance, and resource planning. In India, he worked for MPCST, Bhopal; Tata Steel, Jamshedpur; and Bengal Energy, Kolkata, at various key executive positions for 26 years. Later, he remained as the CEO of GRM Resources, Indonesia, for 3 years and managing director of CBM Ltd., Zimbabwe, for 8 years. He has sixteen technical papers and several geological reports to his credit as a competent person from AusIMM, Australia. He has widely travelled across the globe with 37 years of field experience. He is currently a consulting geologist to various mining organizations.

Inhalt

Part I: Universe, Planet Earth, and its systems.- Chapter 1: Solar System and the Earth.- Chapter 2: Geology: Study of the Earth.- Chapter 3: Earth's Internal Dynamics and Landforms.- Chapter 4: External Geological Agents of Earth.- Part II: Mineral Resources.- Chapter 5: Metals and Minerals.- Chapter 6: Rocks and their Formation.- Chapter 7: Mineral Deposits.- Chapter 8: Metallic Minerals and their Deposits.- Chapter 9: Non-Metallic Minerals and their deposits.- Part III: Mineral Exploration and Resource Management.- Chapter 10: Exploration of Mineral Resources.- Chapter 11: Evaluation of Mineral Deposits.- Chapter 12: Mining, Mineral Beneficiation and Environment.