Geology

Heat and water combined are what creates most mineral deposits. Aside from the weathering processes which will subsequently transport (placer or alluvial deposits) or concentrate the minerals in place (laterites) ...

Although there are between 12 and 15 different typestyles of uranium deposits, almost all economic uranium deposits come from just two types: unconformity-related deposits,and sandstone uranium deposits. Unconformity-related deposits account ...

Nearly a quarter of the world’s zinc production is from volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposits. In Canada, approximately half of country’s zinc production is from VMS deposits that also supply ...

Tungsten is the 74th element on the periodic table and is closely related to both chromium and molybdenum. Tungsten has the symbol W, an abbreviation of wolfram, which is of ...

Tin is number 50 on the periodic table of the elements. It has the symbol Sn, which is an abbreviation of stannum; the Latin word for tin. With a concentration ...

Like gold, diamonds were originally recovered from alluvial deposits. However, unlike gold, the actual mining of diamonds from source deposits didn’t start until the late 19th century in the Kimberley ...

The world is a dynamic place, the earth that we stand on, and think of as fixed, is anything but. The most unstable areas of all are the plate boundaries, ...

All the world’s Banded Iron Formations appear to have been formed by an unusual, one-off event. With many types of mineralisation – we can see the process occurring today – ...

There are six platinum group metals or PGMs  . The group comprises; platinum (Pt), palladium (Pd), rhodium (Rh), iridium (Ir), osmium (Os) and ruthenium (Ru). The platinum group metals are ...

Zinc is the 30th element on the periodic table. It has the symbol Zn, which is an abbreviation of zinke; the German word for “tooth-like, pointed or jagged”, which probably ...