Jun 06, 2025  
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

GLY 505LLB - Economic Geology


This course will describe the nature and origin of the raw materials that sustain modern life styles and developed societies. Lectures will emphasize the formation of economic deposits of metallic and non-metallic minerals, methods of mineral exploration and exploitation, and the environmental consequences of utilizing mineral resources. The laboratory will focus on identification of ore and associated gangue minerals using microscopic and macroscopic methods.

Credits: 3