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Introduction to Mineral Exploration. Second Edition.

CHARLES MOON, MICHAEL WHATELEY, AND ANTHONY EVANS, Editors. Pp. 498. Blackwell Publishing. 2006. ISBN 1405113170. US$84.95.

Department of Geology, Clark Science Center, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063

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This book has a simple aim, to introduce the reader to the broad spectrum of the exploration world, and it achieves it well. There are many books that cover various aspects of the tremendously broad field of economic geology. Some focus on the ore deposits, some focus on the economic and/or environmental aspects, but this book, as the title implies, focuses on the process of exploration. And in my opinion, it is the best on the market. Not that there won’t be critics. The treatment of ore genesis is shallow, at best, and even in the various subfields of exploration—geophysics, geochemistry, remote sensing, geostatistics, and mineral economics—specialists in these disciplines will have . . . [Full Text of this Article]