Unit ORE DEPOSITS AND SUSTAINABLE MINING
- Course
- Geosciences for risk and environment management
- Study-unit Code
- A002130
- Curriculum
- Geosciences for environmental sustainability
- Teacher
- Sabrina Nazzareni
- Teachers
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- Sabrina Nazzareni
- Hours
- 42 ore - Sabrina Nazzareni
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2020
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline mineralogiche, petrografiche e geochimiche
- Academic discipline
- GEO/06
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- English
- Contents
- Ore geology and related ore-forming processes. systematic of ore minerals. Models of sustainable mining
- Reference texts
- ntroduction to Ore-forming processes L. Robb Blackwell 2005
Elements. Mineralogical Society America - Educational objectives
- Basic knowledge of ore geology. Understanding of the processes, as well as the nature and origin, of ore mineral occurence and how they fit into the Earth system. Basic knowledge in the interpretation of mining prospection and sustainable mining
- Prerequisites
- In order to be able to understand the subject of the course students are required to have basic knowledge of geology, geochemistry, mineralogy, petrology and volcanology
- Teaching methods
- face-to-face Practical training
Field trips - Learning verification modality
- The exam consists of an oral test developed as an interview of about 30 minutes aiming to test the level of knowledge reached.
The oral exam will also test the student communication skills and his autonomy in the organization and exposure of the topics of the course. - Extended program
- Introduction and Ore deposits definitions. Systematics of ore minerals: native elements, oxide and hydro-oxide, sulfide. Ore genesis and classification of ore deposits: magmatic, magmatic-hydrothermal, hydrothermal, metamorphic and sedimentary-supergenic deposits. Plate tectonics and the global distribution of ore deposits. Models and problems of sustainable mining.