In 1996, a memorandum of understanding was signed by representatives of the U.S. Geological Survey and Kennecott Greens Creek Mining Company to initiate a cooperative applied research project focused on the Greens Creek massive sulfide deposit in southeastern Alaska. The goals of the project were consistent with the mandate of the U.S. Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program to maintain a leading role in national mineral deposits research and with the need of Kennecott Greens Creek Mining Company to further development of the Greens Creek deposit and similar deposits in Alaska and elsewhere.

Значение карста в образовании рудных месторождений определяется двумя факторами: 1) механическим — формой карстовых полостей как ловушек для более тяжелых компонентов аллювиальных отложений; 2) химическими свойствами карбонатов как осадителей металлов в гипергенных условиях. Возможны сочетания обоих этих факторов (Гинзбург, 1952).
Осаждение металлов может происходить в гипергенных и в гидротермальных условиях. В последнем случае карст получает своеобразные черты. Рассмотрим ряд примеров.

Дмитрий Иванович Щербаков - выдающийся геолог и географ, крупнейший ученый в области геохимии, металлогении и геологии рудных месторождений -был яркой и самобытной фигурой, одним из первых в ряду ведущих советских геологов старшего поколения. Много энергии, опыта и знаний вложил ученый в создание минерально-сырьевой базы Советского Союза, в развитие геологии, геохимии и учения о рудных месторождениях, организацию научных исследований и экспедиционных работ, во внедрение новых передовых методов исследования в геологию, в дело подготовки кадров геологов-производственников и научных работников.

На конкретном примере кратко охарактеризована эпигенетическая зональность в сероцветных водопроницаемых горизонтах и показано место уранового оруденения в этой зональности. Рассмотрены условия образования регенерированных урановых черней путем выпадения урана из пластовых вод. Дана сравнительная характеристика регенерированных черней и настурана и высказано предположение о тождественности их химического состава.

Uses (and abuses) of ore deposit models in mineral exploration
Kimberlites and lamproites: primary sources of diamond
A model for bonanza gold deposit
Sediment-hosted stratiform copper deposits
Skarns and skarn deposits
Bauxite
Porphyry copper deposits
Genetic considerations relating to some uranium ore deposits
Genetic considerations relating to some uranium ore deposits. Part 2. Models for uranium ores in sandstones and in carbonaceous pellets
Sedimentary-type stratiform ore deposits: some models and a new classification
A model for granophile mineral deposits
Mississippi valley-type lead-zinc deposits
Magmatic segregation deposits of chromite
Volcanogenic massive sulphidae deposits. Part 1. A descriptive model
Disseminated gold deposits
A Canadian cordilleran model for epithermal gold-silver deposits
Archean lode gold deposits
The platinum group element deposits: classification and genesis
Unconformity-type uranium deposits
Volcanogenic massive sulphide deposits. Part 2. Genetic models
Plate tectonics and mineral deposits: a view from two perspectives
Remote sensing in mineral exploration – case histories

Soda ash is the trade name for sodium carbonate, a chemical refined from the mineral trona or sodium-carbonate-bearing brines (both referred to as "natural soda ash") or manufactured from one of several chemical processes (referred to as "synthetic soda ash"). Soda ash, which is one of the most important of all chemical products and is a starting material in producing many other chemicals, is produced in the largest amounts compared with other soda products.

The borates are among the most interesting of the world's industrial minerals, having been known and used since the earliest recorded history, first for precious metal working and later in ceramics. They are an unusually large grouping of minerals, but the number of commercially important borates is limited, and their chemistry and crystal structure are both unusual and complex. There are only a few large deposits, with many smaller formations, and the number of noncommercial occurrences in other rocks or brines is very large.

This book will address three primary metals and their associated metals. The primary metals are Platinum Group of Elements or Metals (PGE or PGM), nickel, and chromium. The associated metals include copper, gold, silver, and cobalt. The platinum group consists of six metals and occurs naturally in close association with one another as well as with nickel, chromium, copper, and cobalt. The group of metals represents a unique geological process having a common source of metal supply and a genetic model. The PGM is among the least abundant group of elements of the Earth’s element family.

The extraordinary growth of the computer and semiconductor industries and the increasing consumption of indium in these technologies in recent years have placed major constraints on current and future reserves of this metal. In the past, geoscientists have noticed the occurrence of indium in a large variety of ore deposits and detailed geochemical and mineralogical work is available for a few examples. However, despite the current technological interest, there is no comprehensive textbook that deals with all aspects of indium mineralization and economics.

Lithium is one of the most interesting of the industrial minerals, occurring primarily in the unusual lithium pegmatites or in the very few high-lithium brine deposits. Many of the lithium pegmatites contain separate masses of different minerals (i.e. they are highly zoned), with the crystal size often being very large, such as up to 1–14 m long. There may be as many as 13 distinct and separate massive zones of single predominant minerals in the pegmatite, including up to six different lithium mineral zones, and several zones with other rare elements such as tantalum, niobium, tin, tungsten, cesium and rubidium.