Nonmetallic Minerals

The manual examines such major non-metallic minerals as apatites, phosphorites, sodium, potassium and potassium-magnesium salts, sulfur, boron, asbestos, etc, as well as piezo-optical raw materials, precious and ornamental stones, various rocks as construction materials. It gives major geological-industrial and genetic types of deposits as illustrated by numerous Russian and foreign industrial facilities.

It describes typomorphic deposits of the above chemical elements, minerals, crystals and cryptocrystalline rock substances; their geological structure, the size and composition of ore bodies and considers their genesis, and in some cases the mining and technical conditions, the methods and scales of their development, the quality of the raw materials, its processing and use. The geological description of some deposits is given for the first time.

For students, undergraduates and post-graduate students of geological departments and faculties of universities.