Metallic Mineral Resources

M. Santosh is senior Professor and foreign expert at the University of Adelaide, Australia, foreign expert and professor at the China University of Geosciences Beijing, China, and emeritus professor at the Faculty of Science, Kochi University, Japan. B.Sc. (1978) from Kerala University, M.Sc. (1981) from University of Roorkee, Ph.D. (1986) from Cochin University, D.Sc. (1990) from Osaka City University, and D.Sc. (2012) from University of Pretoria. He is the founding editor of Gondwana Research as well as the founding secretary general of the International Association for Gondwana Research. His research fields include petrology, fluid inclusions, geochemistry, geochronology, and supercontinent tectonics. Dr. Santosh is recipient of the National Mineral Award, Outstanding Geologist Award, Thomson Reuters 2012 Research Front Award, Global Talent Award, Island Arc Award, and Thomson Reuters High Cited Researcher recognition. He has published over 1,300 research papers, edited several memoir volumes and journal special issues, and co-authored the book ‘Continents and Supercontinents.’ David Ian Groves is an economic geologist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Western Australia. He had a very successful academic career in terms of 500 highly cited published papers and book chapters, keynote and invited lectures, as well as mentorship of many outstanding postgraduates. He has been awarded 14 medals and prizes, including the SEG Silver and Penrose Gold Medals and the SGA-Newmont Gold Medal, and being inducted into the Australian Academy of Sciences as a Fellow. Since his retirement from UWA, David has been made a National Geoscience Champion by the Australian Geoscience Council, one of the 125 Faces of Geoscience and AIMM Distinguished Lecturer for 2020 by the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. He has continued his academic career at the China University of Geosciences in Beijing (CUGB), and consulted to industry, being involved in greenfield gold discoveries in Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Canada. Daniel Müller is a Consulting Geologist working in mineral exploration, based in Santiago de Chile. He graduated with a MSc in Geology and Mineralogy at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. He obtained his PhD at the Key Centre for Strategic Mineral Deposits, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, and completed his Habilitations Degree at the Institute for Mineralogy, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany. During 1999-2002 he was a Lecturer in Economic Geology at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg followed by a short period as a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Isotope Geochemistry and Mineral Resources at the ETH Zürich, Switzerland, in 2002-2003. He is an experienced geologist with >30 years exploring for base- and precious-metal deposits with international mining companies. Daniel published 19 research papers and a textbook together with David Groves on ‘High-K Magmatism and Gold-Copper Mineralization’ in five editions with Springer. Daniel has been a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Lithos and he is currently member of the Editorial Board of Ore Geology Reviews.

1. Introduction 1.1 Scope of book 1.2 Organization of contents
2. Heterogeneous Distribution of Metal Resources
3. Industrial Use of Metals
4. Abundant Metal Systems
5. Scarce Critical Metal Systems
6. Rare Critical Metal Systems
7. Trace Critical Metal Systems
8. Precious Metal Systems
9. Temporal Distribution of Mineral Resources
10. The Future of Mineral Resources