PETROLOGY OF MINERAL DEPOSIT
Module MODULE 2

Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: PAOLO MAZZOLENI

Expected Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and understanding - The teaching aims to provide the student with knowledge regarding: critical raw materials; the petrogenetic processes of minerals of economic interest; the conditions in which the deposits of the most important minerals useful for the extraction of metals are formed

Applying knowledge and understanding - The student will acquire the useful tools to apply the basic concepts of giacimentology to case studies

Making judgements - the student will acquire the tools to develop independent judgment for the topics covered in the course

Communication skills and learning skills - will be the subject of the exam test

Course Structure

lectures

Required Prerequisites

no prerequisites required

Attendance of Lessons

mandatory

Detailed Course Content

Elements of economic geology; critical raw materials; metallic ores; magmatic mineralogenetic processes; sedimentary mineralogenetic processes; hydrothermal mineralogenetic processes.

Textbook Information

JOHN RIDLEY - Ore Deposit Geology

Course Planning

 SubjectsText References
1introduction to the course power point and notes
2elements of economic geologypower point and notes
3magmatic mineralizationpower point and notes
4sedimentary mineralizationpower point and notes
5hydrothermal mineralizationpower point and notes

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

preparation will be assessed on the basis of; understanding the question; correctness of answers; clarity of exposition. .

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

What are the main petrogenetic processes in a sedimentary environment?

How do hydrothermal processes work?

under what conditions do banded iron formations form?

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