Sedimentology is the study of sediments and sedimentary rocks, essential for understanding Earth’s history and environmental processes. It encompasses sedimentary processes, environments, stratigraphy, rock types, and structures. Key processes include weathering, erosion, and lithification, while environments range from rivers to oceans, reflecting historical geological activities and conditions.
Minerals development involves stages like exploration, resource estimation, feasibility studies, environmental assessment, permitting, mining, processing, transportation, market analysis, and reclamation.
Geological deposits are diverse, including sedimentary, igneous, metamorphic, hydrothermal, placer, evaporite, VMS, carbonatite, and pluton-related deposits, each with unique characteristics.
Petrography, a crucial branch of geology, entails detailed rock analysis for understanding geological history, mineral identification, texture analysis, and structural observations.
The Geological Time Scale organizes Earth’s history into eons, eras, periods, epochs, and ages, each with distinct geological events.
Mineralization in geology involves mineral accumulation through various processes like hydrothermal, sedimentary, metasomatic, volcanogenic, placer, vein, replacement, carbonate-hosted, porphyry copper, and stratabound deposits.
Mineral exploration is vital for identifying deposits. This comprehensive review highlights techniques, including geological mapping, geophysical surveys, and more.
Fluid inclusions are microscopic to nanoscopic volumes of liquid and/or gas trapped within minerals during their formation. These inclusions can provide valuable information about the conditions under which the host minerals formed, as well as insights into geological processes such as mineralization, metamorphism, and diagenesis. Fluid inclusions are commonly studied in the field of economic…
Active tectonics involve ongoing movements and deformation of the Earth’s lithosphere, causing geological phenomena like earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountain building.
Geostatistics Modelling in mining involves spatial data collection, variography, kriging, block modeling, uncertainty assessment, and integration with mine planning.
