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Author:   David S. Cronan
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2024
ISBN:  

9783031523410

ISBN 10:   3031523415
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   07 May 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Part 1.- Introduction. Chapter 1: The post-war deep-sea minerals scene.- Chapter 2: Activities on Manganese Nodules during the post war boom.- Chapter 3: Cobalt-rich crusts.- Chapter 4: Hydrothermal Deposits.- Chapter 5: Phosphorites.- Chapter 6: Initial Exploration and Mining Development techniques. Part 2.- Introduction. Chapter 7: Polymetallic Sulphides and related deposits.- Chapter 8. Expanding Cobalt-rich Crusts activities in the Pacific Ocean.- Chapter 9: Late 20th century manganese nodules activities.- Chapter 10: Technical Developments in support of deep-sea minerals exploration and mining.- Chapter 11: Environment.- Chapter 12: Economic and related developments in regard to deep sea minerals and mining towards the close of the 20th century.- Epilogue.

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David Cronan has been working on and writing about deep-sea minerals since the mid-1960s. He completed a dissertation on them at Oxford University in 1964 and a Ph.D. on them at Imperial College, University of London, in 1967. He was awarded a D.Sc. by Durham University in 1986. From 1973, he was successively Lecturer, Reader, and Professor of Marine Geochemistry at Imperial College, working principally on manganese nodules and hydrothermal deposits. During this period, he supervised over 20 Ph.D. projects on deep-sea minerals, published more than 150 papers and 4 books, and attended more than 50 Conferences on them. Many of the last of these have provided material for the present book.

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