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Fig. 22.14

Mineral Resources. Native Gold on Quartz. Fig. 22.14. Economic Concentration Factors* of Some Commercially Important Elements. * Concentration factor = abundance in deposit divided by crustal abundance. Table 22.1. Amount of Primary and Recycled Metals Used in the U.S. from 1960-2000 .

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Fig. 22.14

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  1. Mineral Resources Native Gold on Quartz Fig. 22.14

  2. Economic Concentration Factors* of Some Commercially Important Elements * Concentration factor = abundance in deposit divided by crustal abundance Table 22.1

  3. Amount of Primary and Recycled Metals Used in the U.S. from 1960-2000 Fig. 22.15

  4. Hydrothermal Mineral Deposits • hydrothermal deposits: minerals deposited from hot waters, usually associated with igneous intrusions • These fluids carry 'low temperature ions'; when the fluids cool off (near surface) the solubility goes down and minerals with Pb, Fe, Hg, Cu, Zn, Ag, Au, etc., are precipitated

  5. Descending ground water dissolved metal oxides and sulfides, to be heated by magma, rise in hydrothermal fluids, and re-precipitated as hydrothermal ores Fig. 22.16

  6. Fig. 22.16

  7. Fig. 22.16

  8. Some Metal Sulfide* Ores * Sulfides are the most common of the metallic ores Fig. 22.17

  9. Some Copper Ores Fig. 22.18

  10. Kennecott Open Pit Copper Mine, Utah Fig. 22.19

  11. Chromite (chrome ore, dark layers) in a Layered Igneous Intrusive, South Africa Fig. 22.20

  12. Precambrian Banded Ore Deposits, Australia Fig. 22.21

  13. Large Quantities of Sulfide Ores Form at Mid-ocean Spreading Centers Fig. 22.22

  14. Role of Plate Tectonic Setting in Controlling Distribution of Ore Deposits Fig. 22.23

  15. Manganese Nodules* From the Deep Seafloor * May contain up to 20% Mg ~7.5 cm Fig. 22.24

  16. Location of Some Major Non-fuel Seabed Ore Deposits Fig. 22.25

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