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Gold Provinces of [the] World.

M. M. KONSTANTINOV. Pp. 358. 16 color plates in Appendix. Scientific World, Moscow. 2006. In Russian. ISBN 5-89176-361-3. Price US$40. To order, e-mail, <mmkonstantinov@mail.ru>.

Centre for Russian and Central Eurasian Mineral, Studies (CERCAMS), Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

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This Russian monograph is an attempt to describe the gold provinces of the world from the point of view of the Soviet classification of mineral deposit types. The author is a well-known geologist who started his career about 50 years ago and who has since worked in almost all the gold provinces of the former Soviet Union (FSU). In the introduction, Konstantinov declares his aim is to educate a new generation of geoscientists about gold metallogeny not only of the FSU, but also, using a systematic approach, most major gold provinces of the world.

The chapters of the monograph can be grouped into three parts of unequal lengths. The first part, chapter 1, contains a description of the fundamentals of what is known in Russia as "formational analysis," as applied to mineral deposit classification, which was widely used in the FSU. Each formation (the closest Western equivalent would be an association) is named after its type minerals, such as gold-quartz, gold-silver, and gold-sulfide. Each formation is believed to occur in a specific setting and host rock. For example, the gold-silver formation occurs in volcanic rocks and is genetically related to these rocks (in Western terminology this would be the epithermal class of deposits). Such correspondence may exist between many Russian "formations" and Western mineral deposit types, but not consistently. For non-Russian geologists . . . [Full Text of this Article]