The investigation of stratiform/stratabound ore deposits associated with sediments and volcanics and ranging in age from Precambrian to Recent, has become a specialized branch within the wider scope of ore petrology. It is, by all means, not an entirely new field of endeavour and it has always had a place in economic geology, but an accelerated shift in both individualized and collective efforts in the study of the stratiform mineral accumulations has resulted in a large amount of dispersed data.

Chapter 1 The Architecture and Structure of the Nigerian Continental Crust

Chapter 2 The Nigerian Migmatite‑Gneiss Complex: Product of Proterozoic Reworking of a Primitive Crust

Chapter 3 The Nigerian Iron Formations: Mineralogical Evolution, Geochemistry and Genesis

Chapter 4 Geometric and Kinematic Characterization of Fractures within the Basement Complex Rocks of Ago‑Iwoye, Southwestern Nigeria

Andrei Y. Barkov and Federica Zaccarini Editorial for the Special Issue “Platinum-Group Minerals: New Results and Advances in PGE Mineralogy in Various Ni-Cu-Cr-PGE Ore Systems”
Federica Zaccarini, Giorgio Garuti, Evgeny Pushkarev and Oskar Thalhammer Origin of Platinum Group Minerals (PGM) Inclusions in Chromite Deposits of the Urals
Sai-Hong Yang, Ben-Xun Su, Xiao-Wen Huang, Dong-Mei Tang, Ke-Zhang Qin, Yang Bai, Patrick Asamoah Sakyi and Melesse Alemayehu Platinum-Group Mineral Occurrences and Platinum-Group Elemental Geochemistry of the Xiadong Alaskan-Type Complex in the Southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt

Обогащенные PGE–(REE–Ti) элементами включения микрометрового размера, минеральные ассоциации, вариации состава и потенциальный источник минералов платиновой группы в россыпной зоне Сисим, Восточные Саяны, Россия.

We report the results of a mineralogical investigation of placer samples from the upper reaches of the Sisim watershed, near Krasnoyarsk, in Eastern Sayans, Russia. The placer grains are predominantly Os–Ir–(Ru) alloys (80%) that host various inclusions (i.e., platinum-group elements (PGE)-rich monosulfide, PGE-rich pentlandite, Ni–Fe–(As)-rich laurite, etc.) and subordinate amounts of Pt–Fe alloys.

Significant uranium deposits and mining were restricted to eastern Germany (until 1990 German Democratic Republic/GDR) while only few small uranium deposits have been mined in western Germany.

Ронов А.Б., Мигдисов А.А. Сравнительный анализ количественных параметров строения и распространенности групп формаций на Восточно-Европейской и других древних платформах мира    
Михайлов Б.М. Марганцевые руды России    
Цеховский Ю.Г., Богатырев Б.А., Джаббур Р. Триас-юрские бокситы Сирии    
Кореневский С.М. Эвапориты и рудогенеэ. Сообщение 1. Минерагения калиеносных формаций 
Осовцикий Б.М., Трушин А.М. Структура крупнообломочного аллювия р. Белой    
Бородин Л.С. Петрохимическая эволюция архейской континентальной коры