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GEOLOGICAL JOURNAL, VOL.

16, 299-301 (1981)

Book reviews
ECONOMIC MINERAL DEPOSITS by Mead L. Jensen and Alan M. Bateman, Wiley, New York, Chichester, Brisbane and Toronto, 1979. Price: f 12.00. This new edition of Bateman is thoroughly welcome as a comprehensive coverage of the wide range of economic mineral deposits. With such an ambitious range of subject matter to be covered in 600 well-illustrated and readable pages, it is inevitable that the treatment of certain deposit types will be very brief, whereas others have been selected for more detailed description. The volume is divided into four parts, the first two relating respectively to the principles and the processes of mineral deposit formation, while the latter part of the book describes, in turn, metallic and non-metallic mineral deposits. This descriptive section is comprehensive and abundantlyillustrated, but displays a distinctly more complete coverage of North American mineral deposits. For example, there is a detailed coverage of numerous American copper deposits, but a scant 3 pages (in another chapter) are devoted to the Zambian Copperbelt. whiie the references to various rather small Australian copper deposits (Chapter 19) omit any mention of Mount Isa-for many years the largest producing copper mine in the country. Likewise, while the description of the Sudbury deposit and the Manitoba nickel belt is as detailed as can be expected, references to the West Australian nickel province names only the Forrestania prospect. A11 description of the numerous large (and producing) nickel mines situated around and north of Kalgoorlie, such as Kambalda, Agnew and Mount Keith, and the now well-known setting of the ores i n these mines is sadly omitted. All these mines are enumerated in Figures 20-26, for which no key to the numbered locations is supplied. The description of certain types of mineral deposit, such as sedimentary uranium or lateritic nickel, although briefly covered, has been omitted from the descriptive section, and included instead is one that is devoted to the processes of mineral deposit formation. It was therefore sometimes difficult to trace references to certain categories of mineral deposit. Despite these minor points, the book is a good wide-ranging study, which will be useful to students. Some confusion may arise from the mixture of present and fonner names of African countries (used indiscriminately) but brief reference should reveal that the Gold Coast (p. 380) has been named Ghana (p. 382) since 1957,or that Tanganyika. Nyasaland and Portugese East Africa (p. 380) have also been renamed. However, the amount of factual data presented is enormous, and the book will provide a useful basis for elementary courses in economic geology. J. A. WINCHESTER

MANGANESE NODULES-RESEARCH DATA AND METHODS OF INVESTIGATION by R. K. Sorem and R. H. Fewkes, 1979. IFIPlenum. New York-Washington-London. 723 pp. Price:

60.00.
Manganese nodules are the subjects of intensive research because of their potential as a source o f Mn, Ni, Co and Cu. Sorem and Fewkes present a descriptive account of the manganese nodules in the Washington State University collection with a strong emphasis on the methods they used in their investigation. The techniques employed and the observations made are extensively illustrated by excellent photographs. The authors stress the importance o f detailed studies of individual nodules in understanding their genesis.

@ 1981 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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