“Mineral Deposit” – Word of the Week #8

“Mineral Deposit” was “Word of the Week”, for the eight week of 2022.

“Word of the Week” is a weekly publication on this website. The word of the week also gets explained more in-depth, during the weekly show “What’s Cheap”. 

The science involving mineral deposits was historically based on descriptive studies to define their host rocks, geometry, structural controls, and ore mineralogy. This eventually resulted in the development of mineral deposit models (e.g. copper porphyry, orogenic gold, skarn deposits, VMS deposits). These models have substantially improved our understanding of deposit-scale controls on the formation and distribution of mineralization.

What are mineral deposits?

We define mineral deposits as natural accumulations of minerals in the earth crust, in form of one or several mineral bodies which can be extracted at the present time or in an immediate future. Mineral deposits (metallic, non-metallic and combustible materials) constitute major raw materials for industrial development today, and the demand for these raw materials is ever increasing. Mineral deposits include several different types related to magmatic, hydrothermal, sedimentary and metamorphic processes.

Read more about mineral deposits over at GeologyForInvestors.com.