Bitumens in Ore Deposits

by John Parnell (Editor), Henryk Kucha (Editor), P. Landais (Editor)

Overview

This volume covers the occurrence, interpretation and significance of bitumens (hydrocarbon residues) in ore deposits. Bitumens occur with a wide variety of ores, including deposits of base metals, mercury, uranium, gold and other precious metals. The papers included reflect this variety of bitumen occurrences and the potential for obtaining useful data from them. The contributions are written by acknowledged experts in this field, who cover analytical techniques and case studies using diverse petrographic and geochemical approaches which will give ore geologists and geochemists an excellent insight into the interpretation of bitumens during mineral exploration. The large number of plates in particular will help the non-specialist to make good use of the volume through the application to new deposits. This is the most comprehensive set of contributions published on a subject of growing interest; at a time when explorationists are increasingly recognising the occurrence of bitumens in ore deposits and the fact that the evolution of mineralising fluids and hydrocarbon fluids may be closely interlinked.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642858086
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	05/19/2012
Series:	Special Publication of the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits , #9
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993
Pages:	520
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

Nomenclature and Methodology.- Nomenclature, Classification, Characterization, and Genesis of Natural Solid Bitumen (Migrabitumen).- The Analysis of Organic Matter in Ore Deposits.- Transmission Electron Microscopy of Carbonaceous Matter in Precambrian Shungite from Karelia.- Interpretation of Thermal Mesophase in Vanadiferous Bitumens from Upper Proterozoic Lava Flows (Mïtov, Czechoslovakia).- Petroleum in Modern Hydrothermal Systems.- Hydrothermal Activity and its Effects on Sedimentary Organic Matter.- Hydrocarbons, Sulphides, and Carbonate Deposits Related to Sublacustrine Hydrothermal Seeps in the North Tanganyika Trough, East African Rift.- Bitumens in Precious Metal and Mercury Deposits.- Hydrocarbons and Gold Mineralization in the Hot-Spring Deposit at Cherry Hill, California.- Gold and Other Metals in Graphite.- Noble Metals Associated with Organic Matter, Kupferschiefer, Poland.- Bitumen and Dispersed Organic Matter Related to Mineralization in Stratabound Deposits, South China.- The Association of Cinnabar and Bitumen in Mercury Deposits of the California Coast Ranges.- Bitumens in Uranium/Thorium Deposits.- Bitumens in Uranium Deposits.- Nature and Role of Organic Matter in Sandstone Uranium Deposits, Grants Uranium Region, New Mexico, USA.- Uranium-Hydrocarbon Association in Francevillian Uranium Ore Deposits, Lower Proterozoic of Gabon.- Kerogens and Bitumens in Precambrian Uraniferous Ore Deposits: Witwatersrand, South Africa, Elliot Lake, Canada, and the Natural Fission Reactors, Oklo, Gabon.- Paragenetic Relationships of Vein Pyrobitumen in the Panel Mine, Elliot Lake Uranium District, Ontario, Canada.- Mineralogy of Thoriferous Bitumen Nodules, Northwest Irish Basin.- Organic Matter Associated with Mineralized Reduction Spots in Red Beds.- Bitumens in Base Metal/Manganese Deposits.- Organic Matter (Bitumen and Other Forms) as the Key to Localisation of Mississippi Valley-Type Ores.- Bitumen Associated with Precipitation of Sulphides in Carbonate-Hosted Vein Mineralization, North Greenland.- Geochemical Data for Organic Matter in Stratabound Sulphide and Other Ore Deposits in China.- Organic Matter and its Significance for the Genesis of the Copper-Bearing Shales (Kupferschiefer) from the Fore-Sudetic Monocline (Poland).- Occurrence of Anthraxolite (Bitumen) Spheroids in Xiangtan-Type Manganese Carbonate Deposits of South China.- Applications to Exploration for Metals and Hydrocarbons.- Occurrence and Significance of Metals in Solid Bitumens: An Organic Geochemical Approach.- Metal Enrichments in Bitumens from the Carboniferous of Ireland: Potential in Exploration for Ore Deposits.- Polymerisation of Hydrocarbons by Radioactive Minerals in Sedimentary Rocks: Diagenetic and Economic Significance.- Chemical Age Dating of Hydrocarbon Migration Using Uraniferous Bitumens, Czech-Polish Border Region.