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Sediment-Hosted Lead-Zinc Sulphide Deposits. Attributes and Models of Some Major Deposits in India, Australia and Canada

M. DEB AND W. D. GOODFELLOW, EDITORS. Pp. 367. Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai, and Kolkata. ISBN 81-7319-520-X. 2004. Price $225.00.

This volume is the product of an international workshop organized under the auspices of the Deposit Modeling Program of UNESCO-IUGS in Delhi and Udaipur, December 2001. In their preface, the editors note that the goal of this program is, among others, to bring together geoscientists from the developed and less developed countries to discuss mineral deposit models that will assist with the exploration, resource assessment, and mineral management in the developing countries. The program was conceived in 1984, when the differences between the "developed" and "less developed" countries were perhaps more readily definable and accepted than they are today, just as the focus of national resource management has changed over the years. Nonetheless, the product of this workshop can be judged, on the basis of this publication, to have been very well worth the effort. The volume consists of a series of papers that can be roughly divided into two main sections—ore deposit models for sediment-hosted lead-zinc sulfide deposits that have been established during the past 30 years for the North Australian (Proterozoic) and the Canadian Cordillera examples, and descriptions, with overviews of their geologic and tectonic setting, of these deposit types in India. Sandwiched between these two thick slices of geoscience is a particularly interesting and novel filling, devoted to aspects of the environmental impact caused by lead-zinc deposits before, during, and . . . [Full Text of this Article]