Quantitative Data File for Ore Minerals - Softcover

Criddle, A.J.; Stanley, C.J.

 
9789401046527: Quantitative Data File for Ore Minerals

Synopsis

reviewers, and reported by users of the earlier This third edition (or issue) of the Quantitative Data File for ore minerals (QDF) of the Commission on editions. The result is that 510 species and 125 are Mineralogy of the International Mineralogical compositional or structural variants, or varieties, of Association (COM-IMA) is published, with the species, are represented in QDF3. A large number of support of the Natural History Museum, London, by the entries include data collected from the type Chapman & Hall. It has been greatly revised and specimen of a mineral: these include data extracted enlarged and now includes graphs of the reflectance from the published literature. In this respect, QDF3 spectra for all of its entries. These have been differs from earlier editions. included in response to requests from users of the We have also revised and simplified the notes earlier editions. Also included, for those users concerning X-ray data: no longer are the strongest unfamiliar with the application of such spectra to lines in the powder diffraction pattern quoted, nor mineral identification, are introductory notes, are cell dimensions generally given. Instead, it was illustrated with examples of R spectra. decided to refer to data from the original description, The 635 data sets, which are arranged or to data in the PDF of the JCPDS.

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Product Description

The Quantitative Data File for Ore Minerals (QDF) is the most complete compilation of linked compositional and reflectance data available today. This, the third edition of the File, contains data in tabular form, organized alphabetically, one mineral to a page, supplemented by graphs of the reflectance spectra.

Review

The book is an ideal text for the teaching of quantitative ore microscopy and mineralogy - Australian Mineral Foundation; a quintessential museum publication - Jnl Russell Soc; This is a splendid volume, based on meticulously assembled data (much of it new), and is well produced and presented. It belongs in the libraries of all institutions and individuals with a serious interest in ore minerals - Mineralogical Magazine

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ISBN 10:  041246750X ISBN 13:  9780412467509
Publisher: Chapman and Hall, 1993
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