Best geochemistry books according to redditors
We found 17 Reddit comments discussing the best geochemistry books. We ranked the 6 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 17 Reddit comments discussing the best geochemistry books. We ranked the 6 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
"Extractive Metallurgy of the Rare Earths" by Gupta et al is essentially the textbook on it. Considering its publication date, its extremely thorough, but doesn't include some very important new developments in separation tek made in the last few years.
For the geology side, this book: http://www.amazon.com/Rare-Earth-Minerals-Chemistry-Mineralogical/dp/0412610302 is excellent.
Its important to note that rare earth deposits are extremely variable. There are numerous types of deposits with different ore minerals in different geologic environments. They will all require special consideration and the mining and separation processes needs to be tailor-made to the specific deposit.
Let me know if you have more questions.
Source: I was the geologist at Mt. Pass until we went bankrupt.
http://www.amazon.com/Geochemistry-William-M-White/dp/0470656689
This book is much better. I have Faure's book on Isotopes, his writing is clunky and reading it tough. My geochem class used White's book and it was very easy to follow.
Deer, Howie and Zusmann is the best single reference for chemical, structural and optical properties. (It will not tell you how to use a petrographic microscope nor why substitution occurs as some mineralogy texts do).
If your working with thin sections i'd suggest Gribble and Halls book, Not sure what level of detail your looking for but MacKenzie's rocks and minerals in thin section good to get the basics of optical mineralogy from.
We used Klein and Dutrow for our mineralogy class and I thought it was a pretty good book (but a bit lacking on optics). I kept it for a reference book as it details many of the more common minerals in identification, structure, occurrences, etc.
A must have https://www.amazon.com/Manual-Mineral-Science-Cornelis-Klein/dp/0471721573
I too have trouble with this, but I'm making slow progress purely through practice. I find this book quite helpful: Rocks and Minerals in Thin Section. Other good resources I've found online is Alex Herriot's collection and this collection of thin section from the Bushveld Complex
http://www.amazon.com/Colour-Atlas-Rocks-Minerals-Section/dp/1874545170/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1462489109&sr=8-1&keywords=An+Atlas+of+Minerals+in+Thin+Section
Get this book! It's awesome for minerals.
Second year Geology student here, I use A Colour Atlas of Rocks and Minerals in Thin Section.
Amazon Link:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rocks-Minerals-Thin-Section-Colour/dp/1874545170/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1412373213&sr=8-1&keywords=a+colour+atlas+of+rocks+and+minerals+in+thin+section
The Mineralogical Society published a book called "Rare Earth Minerals: Chemistry, Origin, and Ore Deposits". I own it and like it, and it sounds closest to what you'd want. My only complaint is that, because each chapter is a paper by a different author, the book doesn't flow that well or build on concepts in a logical manner like most textbooks. However, its still loaded with useful information that any inspiring REE-geoscientist would want to have access to. I'm not sure a "textbook" style publication exists yet for the REE's. REE ore deposits are a very understudied field of ore deposits until recently. There is also "Extractive Metallurgy of the Rare Earths" (which I also own) which has a few great introduction chapters about rare earth chemistry, economics, and mining, but then in subsequent chapters jumps into really detailed metallurgical processes regarding the extraction and processing of rare earths that I am totally clueless on and have no interest in. I'd almost recommend it just for the first few chapters, but the book is pretty pricey.
Edit: Links: http://www.amazon.com/Rare-Earth-Minerals-Chemistry-Mineralogical/dp/0412610302 http://www.amazon.com/Extractive-Metallurgy-Rare-Earths-Gupta/dp/0415333407/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1332222202&sr=1-1
Edit: If you have any specific questions feel free to message me. I'm working on my masters studying REE ore deposits at the moment. I'm definitely not an expert on REE's (yet?), but I may be able to answer certain questions or forward them to someone who can.
A mineralogy textbook would be a good start, this is the one we used when I took the class (https://www.amazon.com/Manual-Mineral-Science-Cornelis-Klein/dp/0471721573). Or maybe this (https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Mineralogy-William-Nesse/dp/0199827389), although I haven't read it myself.
An Atlas of Minerals in Thin Section
https://www.amazon.com/dp/019516038X/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_api_5x3kxbQADWAZZ
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rocks-Minerals-Thin-Section-Colour/dp/1874545170
This book did wonders for me during my degree, give it a look, worth getting a second hand copy on the cheap.