Economic Mineralization: A Festschrift for Professor Bhawani Shanker Paliwal

Recent years witnessed information explosion and electrifying conceptual revolution in economic geology. This book incorporates papers describing the new and exciting results and timely reviews integrating an immense amount of knowledge in the field of geology, geophysics, geochemistry, exploration, mining, economics and environment that have bearing on economic mineralization. The book imbibes sections on crustal evolution and economic mineralization, economic mineralization of igneous affiliation, economic mineralization of sedimentary affiliations, prospecting and exploration, and mining economics and environment. In all the five sections current concepts, problems and probable trends of future research are highlighted. This book will be an invaluable everlasting reference for both industry and academia, specializing in economic mineralization and for those who need updated information and current research in the field. It will be equally useful for advance level geology a d mining students and research scholars throughout the world.