11-18-2010, 05:09 AM
Uses Of Metals And Metallic Minerals
The book is much more than a mere list of uses of the metals and metallic minerals, which historically and contemporarily occupy a very important place in the civilization of human race and in the day-to-day human life. Uses of metals have been projected along with their backward linkages with history, recovery from minerals and particular sets of physical/chemical characteristics and with their forward linkages with the status and trends in waste utilization and substitution wherever relevant. Apart from extraction of metals, the direct industrial uses of the metallic minerals and the specifications with emphasis on the principles and reasons have also been discussed. In this book, the 12 metallic minerals, 29 metals and 6 metalloids that are important in today?s economy, have been brought within one cover. Some of the information incorporated in it are not ordinarily accessible to many, but have been obtained by the author through personal contacts with the industries during the last 35 years. The book presents a highly technical subject in an easily understandable logical fashion.
About the Author(s):
K.K. Chatterjee born in January, 1944 in Burdwan, West Bengal, the author`s school and early college education was in Burdwan and Kolkata. Then he studied in Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad and obtained his postgraduate degree in Applied Geology in 1966 from Ranchi University, and also the Associateship of Indian School of Mines (AISM Diploma). He carried out his research work in the field of Coal Geology at Indian School of Mines and was awarded a Ph.D. degree by the same Institute in 1969.
For a period of about 3 years, he served as an Instructor in the Department of Applied Geology in that Institute before joining Indian Bureau of Mines as Assistant Mineral Economist in 1972, from where he retired in 2004, as Chief Mineral Economist and Head of the Mineral Economics Division.
During his professional career in the field of mineral economics, spanning over three decades, he has also keenly watched a variety of management situations and how they are responded to. In connection with his professional activity he has widely travelled within India and also several countries abroad. Besides he has been associated with various committees and expert groups constituted from time to time by the Government of India, as member or as chairman. Besides many technical papers, he has authored one book on the subject of Mineral Economics.
Contents:
Section I: Metallic Minerals? Bauxite and Aluminium
Chromite
Ilmenite and Titanium
Iron ore: Hematite
Iron ore: Magnetite
Iron ore: Siderite
Iron ore: Taconite
Iron ore: Others
Lithium minerals and metal
Manganese ore.
Section II: Metals?Beryllium
Cadmium
Calcium
Cesium
Cobalt
Copper
Gallium
Germanium
Gold
Indium
Lead
Magnesium
Mercury
Molybdenum
Nickel
Niobium (Columbium)
Platinum Group Metals
Potassium
Rare earth metals
Rhenium
Rubidium
Silver
Sodium
Tantalum
Thallium
Tin
Tungsten
Vanadium
Zinc.
Section III: Metalloids?Antimony
Arsenic
Bismuth
Boron
Selenium
Tellurium.
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