ORE DEPOSITIS, INDUSTRIAL MINERALS AND GEOMATERIALS
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2021/2022
- Teacher
- CARMELA VACCARO
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- GEO/09
Training objectives
- Learning assessment procedures
The learning assessment will consist of a final oral examination aims to test knowledge acquisition under the program of the course.
The exam will take place electronically on the Google Meet platform in oral form on the contents provided during the courses.
Students will receive an invitation to attend a Google Hangouts Meet conference call in the 24 hours prior to the test. The exam can be (fully or partially) recorded by the teacher.
Examinations objectiveshe to test the content of the lessons and to verify the level of learning.
Oral examination consist of four questions: a) main ore -forming processes and mineral deposits in their geodynamic settings. b) classification of mineral deposits; c) physical and chemical characteristics of the mineralizing fluids; ore deposits prospecting, d) mining methods with particular attention to the environmental protection
Initially it will be required to present a topic of the student's choice.
The test lasts about 30 minutes.
During the test, the consultation of texts, notes or other material is not allowed.
The use of earphones or headphones is also not permitted.
The final score, expressed in thirtieths, takes into account the skills acquired and it will assess the ability of critical, propositive and creative orientation within the themes covered during the course.
The students who have achieved excellence in all the four questions, will get with 30 cum laude
Examination test execution.
• The teacher, together with the commission, will call the students one at a time and proceed with the recognition. The student must have an identity card and University card with him, for recognition, before starting the exam in the room where the student answers there must be no other people outside the student himself and the door of the room must be closed.
• After the students have been recognized, the session is opened to all students who want to participate or attend the exam.
• During the session, the smartphone microphone must be kept off.
• You cannot leave the station during the test.
• on the walls or around the room there must be no sheets or other devices with screens, in addition to the one used to connect with the teacher;
• the student must not wear headphones or earphones, but must use the PC audio (unless otherwise instructed by the teacher);
• the student must have only a pen and paper in front of him;
• the student must not move away from the devices with screens;
• the teacher may request at any time to rotate the camera to check the surrounding environment;
• any other form of suggestion or consultation of external sources or use of devices is forbidden (unless otherwise explicitly requested by the teacher). In case of incorrect or ambiguous behavior, the teacher can suspend the exam at any time. In case of interruption of the connection, the teacher will evaluate the suspension or conclusion of the test.
Any non-compliance with the following rules and recommendations or technical problems will result in exclusion from the test and its invalidation Prerequisites
- Basic knowledge of geology, geochemistry, mineralogy, petrology and volcanology
Course programme
- The course of 54 h comprises two parts:
1) The class lectures (42 hours)
The topics of the class lectures are meant to outline the ore forming processes. Classifications of ore deposits and genetic models. To provide a genetic framework of ore deposits and their evaluation of the relative economical aspects. Mineral deposits related to:
-Diamond deposits in kimberlites and lamproites (2 hours)
-The carbonatite alkaline igneous ore environment (2 hours)
-The pegmatitic environment (2 hours)
-Orthomagmatic deposits of Cr-Pt-Ti and Fe associated with basic and ultrabasic complexes(2 hours)
-Orthomagmatic deposits of Cu-Ni-Fe associated with basic and ultrabasic complexes (2 hours)
-Volcanic axhalative sedimentary processes (4 hours)
-Disseminated and stockwork deposits associated with plutonic intrusives (2 hours)
-Hydrothermal deposits (2 hours)
-Strata-bound deposits (4 hours)
-Sedimentary deposits (4 hours)
-Residual deposits (2 hours)
- the ore deposits prospecting, mining methods with particular attention to the environmental protection (14 hours)
2) practical part in laboratory (12 h): This practical part of the course devoted to the study of opaque and ore minerals (from rocks and ore deposits) and their associations and microtextures by means of reflected light microscopy on polished sections. It is devoted to the identification and description of the most common and economically significant opaque and ore minerals. It will be descriptive knowledge of the major textures in relationships by means of metallographic, reflected-light microscopy. Practice is acquired by examining numerous high-quality polished sections from the main types of ore deposits inside and outside Italy. Didactic methods
- The course is organized as follows:
• lectures on all subjects;
• exercises to define and recognize macroscopically rock samples through the application of the methods to recognize the rocks. Learning assessment procedures
- Learning assessment procedures
The learning assessment will consist of a final oral examination aims to test knowledge acquisition under the program of the course.
The exam will take place electronically on the Google Meet platform in oral form on the contents provided during the courses.
Students will receive an invitation to attend a Google Hangouts Meet conference call in the 24 hours prior to the test. The exam can be (fully or partially) recorded by the teacher.
Examinations objectiveshe to test the content of the lessons and to verify the level of learning.
Oral examination consist of four questions: a) main ore -forming processes and mineral deposits in their geodynamic settings. b) classification of mineral deposits; c) physical and chemical characteristics of the mineralizing fluids; ore deposits prospecting, d) mining methods with particular attention to the environmental protection
Initially it will be required to present a topic of the student's choice.
The test lasts about 30 minutes.
During the test, the consultation of texts, notes or other material is not allowed.
The use of earphones or headphones is also not permitted.
The final score, expressed in thirtieths, takes into account the skills acquired and it will assess the ability of critical, propositive and creative orientation within the themes covered during the course.
The students who have achieved excellence in all the four questions, will get with 30 cum laude
Examination test execution.
• The teacher, together with the commission, will call the students one at a time and proceed with the recognition. The student must have an identity card and University card with him, for recognition, before starting the exam in the room where the student answers there must be no other people outside the student himself and the door of the room must be closed.
• After the students have been recognized, the session is opened to all students who want to participate or attend the exam.
• During the session, the smartphone microphone must be kept off.
• You cannot leave the station during the test.
• on the walls or around the room there must be no sheets or other devices with screens, in addition to the one used to connect with the teacher;
• the student must not wear headphones or earphones, but must use the PC audio (unless otherwise instructed by the teacher);
• the student must have only a pen and paper in front of him;
• the student must not move away from the devices with screens;
• the teacher may request at any time to rotate the camera to check the surrounding environment;
• any other form of suggestion or consultation of external sources or use of devices is forbidden (unless otherwise explicitly requested by the teacher). In case of incorrect or ambiguous behavior, the teacher can suspend the exam at any time. In case of interruption of the connection, the teacher will evaluate the suspension or conclusion of the test.
Any non-compliance with the following rules and recommendations or technical problems will result in exclusion from the test and its invalidation Reference texts
- Teacher’s handouts
Specific topics can be further developed in the following texts:
Zuffardi P.– Giacimentologia e prospezione mineraria, Pitagora Editrice, Bologna.
"An Introduction to ore geology" di Anthony M. Evans Blackwell Scientific Publications, Boston
EVANS, Ore Geology and Industrial Minerals. An Introduction. IIIrd Ed., Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, 1993. SELLEY & SONNENBERG, Elements of Petroleum Geology. Academic Press, Elsevier, 2015.
Giacimenti Minerari, Ed. italiana a cura di B. De Vivo e F. Ippolito, Liguori ed., Napoli.
