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Preliminary Compilation of Descriptive Geoenvironmental Mineral Deposit Models

Edited By Edward A. du Bray

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Chapter 1

Geoenvironmental Models of Mineral Deposits—Fundamentals and Applications

Chapter 2

Bioavailability of Metals

Chapter 3

Geophysical Methods in Exploration and Mineral Environmental Investigations

Chapter 4

Magmatic Sulfide Deposits

Chapter 5

Serpentine- and Carbonate-hosted Asbestos Deposits

Chapter 6

Carbonatite Deposits

Chapter 7

Th-rare Earth Element Vein Deposits

Chapter 8

Sn and (or) W Skarn and Replacement Deposits

Chapter 9

Vein and Greisen Sn and W Deposits

Chapter 10

Climax Mo Deposits

Chapter 11

Porphyry Cu Deposits

Chapter 12

Cu, Au, and Zn-Pb Skarn Deposits

Chapter 13

Fe Skarn Deposits

Chapter 14

Polymetallic Vein and Replacement Deposits

Chapter 15

Au-Ag-Te Vein Deposits

Chapter 16

Volcanic-associated Massive Sulfide Deposits

Chapter 17

Blackbird Co-Cu Deposits

Chapter 18

Creede, Comstock, and Sado Epithermal Vein Deposits

Chapter 19

Epithermal Quartz-Alunite Au Deposits

Chapter 20

Epithermal Mn Deposits

Chapter 21

Rhyolite-hosted Sn Deposits

Chapter 22

Low-Ti Iron Oxide Cu-U-Au-REE Deposits

Chapter 23

Sediment-hosted Au Deposits

Chapter 24

Almaden Hg Deposits

Chapter 25

Silica-carbonate Hg Deposits

Chapter 26

Stibnite-Quartz Deposits

Chapter 27

Algoma Fe Deposits

Chapter 28

Sediment-hosted Cu Deposits

Chapter 29

Sedimentary Exhalative Zn-Pb-Ag Deposits

Chapter 30

Mississippi Valley-type Pb-Zn Deposits

Chapter 31

Solution-collapse Breccia Pipe U Deposits

Chapter 32

Superior Fe Deposits

Chapter 33

Sedimentary Mn Deposits

Chapter 34

Low Sulfide Au Quartz Veins

Chapter 35

Stratabound Au in Iron Formations
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