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The “chessboard” classification scheme of mineral deposits: Mineralogy and geology from aluminum to zirconium

2010

Abstract Economic geology is a mixtum compositum of all geoscientific disciplines focused on one goal, finding new mineral depsosits and enhancing their exploitation. The keystones of this mixtum compositum are geology and mineralogy whose studies are centered around the emplacement of the ore body and the development of its minerals and rocks. In the present study, mineralogy and geology act as x - and y -coordinates of a classification chart of mineral resources called the “chessboard” (or “spreadsheet”) classification scheme. Magmatic and sedimentary lithologies together with tectonic structures (1 - D/pipes, 2 - D/veins) are plotted along the x -axis in the header of the spreadsheet dia…