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
-
- Sabrina Nazzareni
- Hours
- 42 ore - Sabrina Nazzareni
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2021/22
- 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
- Introduction to Ore-forming processes L. Robb Blackwell 2005
Mineral Resources From Exploration to Sustainability Assessment Manuel Bustillo Revuelta Springer 2018 - 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
- Learning verification modality
- The exam consists of a written essay and oral test. The student must
produce a written essay on a selected topic of the course that will be discussed during the oral exam that will be about 30 minutes in which the level of
knowledge reached will be tested.
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.