Prospecting For Minerals

Compiled by Y. D. Kitaisky

Translated by A. Gurevich

MIR Publishers, 1963, black and white photographs and line drawings, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, store stamp to front endpaper, price-clipped dustjacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with some rubbing, bumping, and creasing, small tears to back of jacket (see photographs)

“This book tells how and where to look for ores, how to identify deposits of important metal ores, minerals and precious stones, and what one must know to find them.  The popular presentation will make this book useful to the non-specialist as well, for whose benefit the process of the formation of rocks and minerals, the forms in which they occur in the earth’s crust, and the signs by which the presence of some particular mineral can be detected are briefly described.  Special sections deal with various aspects of prospecting for iron, copper, tin, tungsten, nickel, manganese, aluminium, and uranium ores. As well as for gold, diamonds, graphite and micas.
This book presents in condensed form the vast practical experience that has been gained by Soviet geologists in prospecting for minerals in the Soviet Union and other countries.”