Giant Metallic Deposits

1. Explanations, Abbreviations, Units

2. Civilization Based on Metals

3. Data on Metallic Deposits and Magnitude Categories: the Giant and World Class Deposits

4. From trace metals to giant deposits

5. Introduction to Chapters 4 to 14

6. Mantle to oceans

7. Young Island Arcs

8. Andean-type Margins

9. Cordilleran Granitoids

10. Volcano-Sedimentary Orogens

11. Precambrian Greenstone-Granite Terrains

12. Intracratonic Orogens, Granites, Hydrothermal Deposits

13. Proterozoic Intracratonic Orogens and Basins: Extension, Sedimentation, Magmatism

14. Rifts, Paleo-rifts, Rifted Margins, Mantle Plumes, Anorogenic and Alkaline Magmatism

15. Sedimentary Associations and Regolith

16. Higher-Grade Metamorphic Associations

17. Giant Deposits in Geological Context

18. Giant Deposits: Industry, Economics, Politics

19. Finding or Acquiring Giant Deposits

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