Marine minerals. Advances in research and resource assessment / Морские полезные ископаемые. Достижения в области научных исследований и оценки ресурсов

Discoveries of new types of marine mineral occurrences during the last decade, and specifically the massive sulfide deposits at spreading ridges on the ocean floor, have significantly advanced geologic concepts about the origin of ore deposits in a very short period of time. These discoveries also renewed interest in all marine mineral occurrences including the well-known manganese nodules, and led to more wide-ranging and thorough examination of cobalt-rich manganese crusts, expanded mapping of phosphorites of continental shelves, and the initiation of several new surveys for placer minerals in shallow waters. The result of these activities is already noticeable in an increasingly broader variety of minerals being found on and below the ocean floor.  <...>
Report of the working group on placer minerals

Report of the working group on marine phosphorites

Report of the working group on manganese nodules and crusts

Report of the working group on marine sulfides

Sedimentary models to estimate the heavy-mineral potential of shelf sediments

Exploring the offshore area of N.E. Greece for placer deposits

Marine placers: Reconnaissance exploration technology

The development of techniques for marine geological surveys

Model of Tertiary phosphorites on the world's continental margins

Open-ocean phosphorites: In a class by themselves?

Some mineral resources of the West African continental shelves related to Holocene shorelines: Phosphorite (Gabon, Congo), glauconite (Congo) and ilmenite (Senegal, Mauritania)

Exploration and genesis of submarine phosphorite deposits from the Chatham Rise, New Zealand: A review

Controls on the nature and distribution of manganese nodules in the western Equatorial Pacific Ocean

Growth history and variability of manganese nodules of the Equatorial North Pacific

Chemistry and growth history of central Pacific Mn-crusts and their economic importance

Geochemical methods in manganese nodule exploration

Analysis and metallurgy of manganese nodules and crusts

Nodule exploration: Accomplishments, needs and problems

Deep-ocean near-bottom surveying techniques

Seafloor polymetallic sulfides: Scientific curiosities or mines of the future?

Sulfide deposits of the seafloor: Geological models and resource perspectives based on studies in ophiolite sequencesRecent hydrothermal metal accumulation, products, and condi tions of formation

The chemistry of submarine oTrace element and precious metal concentrations in East Pacific Rise, Cyprus and Red Sea submarine sulfide depositsre-forming solutions

Possibility of mineral enrichment in the Black Sea

Seafloor volcanism and polymetallic sulfide deposits in ancient active margins: The case of the Iberian pyrite belt

Scientific rationale for establishing long-term ocean bottom observatory/laboratory systems

Electrical methods in the exploration of seafloor mineral deposits

Sources of confusion: What ~re marine mineral resources?

Thoughts on appraising marine mineral resources

Estimation of the probability of occurrence of polymetallic massive sulfide deposits on the ocean floor

Resource assessments, geological deposit models and offshore minerals with an example of heavy-mineral sands

Aspects of marine placer minerals: Economic potential of coastal deposits in Italy, testing procedures and market condi tions

Geostatistical problems in marine placer exploration

Geostatistical reserve modeling and mining simulation of the Atlantis II Deep's metalliferous sediments

An investigation of the applicability of trend surface analysis to marine exploration geochemistry