Publisher's Synopsis
This volume presents a comprehensive and systematic account of diverse types of Indian placer deposits. It deals with the location, development and establishment of placer mineral resources through systematic field- and laboratory-based geological, geo-informatics, geomorphological, geophysical, petro-mineralogical and geochemical exploration, drilling, mining, evaluation, resource-establishment, and mineral processing. The placer deposits discussed here include gold, diamond, rare metals, rare earths and shoreline/inland heavy mineral sands.
