Volume 2 of the ‘Flotation Reagents Handbook’ is a continuation of Volume 1, and presents fundamental and practical knowledge on flotation of gold, platinum group minerals and the major oxide minerals, as well as rare earths.

В «Минералогических таблицах» в табличном варианте приводятся краткие характеристики минералов классов самородных металлов и неметаллов, оксидов, гидроксидов, кислородных солей и галоидов. Для минералов указаны основные разновидности, приведен химический состав, структура, физические свойства и главные диагностические признаки, перечислены типичные условия образования, характерные парагенезисы и поведение в поверхностных условиях. Список минералов, вошедших в пособие, ограничивается программой учебных курсов.

The purpose of this volume is to provide, in a rapidly-printed, inexpensive format, an up-to-date review of the mineralogy and petrology of rock-forming opaque oxide rr.inerals. It was the textbook for the short course on rock-forming oxide minerals sponsored by the Mineralogical Society of America at the Colorado School of Mines, November 5-7, 1976. The contributors hope that the work will be valuable not only to participants in the short course, but also to others desiring a modern review of the subject. <...>

When discussing the stability of iron oxides, one must invariably deal with oxygen fugacity as a variable. To many geophysicists the importance of this variable in determining the stability and composition of oxides is not immediately apparent. Indeed, even within the petrologic community there are many misconceptions about what oxygen fugacity is and how it applies to rocks. The purpose of this chapter is to introduce the concept of oxygen fugacity so that later discussions within this book that use oxygen fugacity as a variable will be more comprehensible. <...>

A number of functional materials based on rare earth oxides have been developed in various fields. Up to 1990, many review articles describing rare earth oxides have been reported and several intensive articles deal the properties e.g. preparation, structure and transformation and have been published early nineteen nineties. In these ten years, much progress has been made in the characterization of rare earth oxides from high-resolution electron microscopy (HREM), as well as in a unique preparation of ultra-fine particles and in the theoretical calculation.

В последние десятилетия поствулканические фумарольные системы всё больше привлекают внимание минералогов, геохимиков, кристаллохимиков, специалистов в области рудообразования, материаловедов (Вергасова, Филатов, 1993, 2016; Taran et al., 2001; Africano et al., 2002; Знаменский и др., 2005; Tessalina et al., 2008; Campostrini et al., 2011; Balić-Žunić et al., 2016; Кривовичев и др., 2017; Филатов и др., 2018; Pekov et al., 2018a,c; Britvin et al., 2020; Siidra et al., 2020; Shchipalkina et al., 2020a,b; и др.). Фумарольная формация порождает богатую и разнообразную минерализацию, причем минералообразующие процессы здесь могут протекать под непосредственным наблюдением исследователя.

Дано описание 110 уральских минералов из класса оксидов и гидроксидов. Приведены история открытия и изучения, условия нахождения, морфология, свойства, химический состав, разновидности, чертежи кристаллов, рисунки и фотографии образцов, а также детальная библиография. Книга предназначена для широкого круга минералогов, петрографов, геохимиков, специалистов по минеральным месторождениям, краеведов, коллекционеров. студентов геологических факультетов вузов и всех интересующихся минералогией Урала.

Коллективная монография включает описание 122 минеральных видов и важнейших разновидностей оксидов циркония, тория и урана, хрома, ванадия и молибдена, вольфрама, марганца, железа, кобальта, свинца и олова, сурьмы и мышьяка, висмута, кремния, смешаннослойных минералов с гидроксилом, а также ферритов, сложных оксидов и алюминатов. Приведены краткая история открытия и изучения минералов, условия нахождения, морфология кристаллов, физические свойства и химический состав, рентгеноструктурные характеристики, чертежи и фотографии образцов и библиография.
Книга предназначена для минералогов, петрографов, геохимиков, специалистов по месторождениям полезных ископаемых, студентов геологических факультетов высших и средних учебных заведений, а также краеведов, коллекционеров и всех интересующихся минеральными богатствами Урала.

Use of some petrologic diagrams applied to analyses of volcanic rocks is unnecessarily difficult due to lack of data for construction of discriminant lines between rock series. Coordinates are provided for sufficient points to enable accurate plotting of the boundary lines within seven diagrams, viz.: ( 1 ) TAS - total alkalies (Na20+K20) vs. SIO2; (2) K20 vs. SiO2; (3) AFM; (4) Jensen; (5) KTP - K20-TiO~-P205; (6)FMS- (FeO*/MgO) vs. SIO2; and (7) TAKTIP- K20/(Na20+K20) vs. TiOz/P2Os. Different versions of these boundaries are collated to indicate their variable position, and it is demonstrated that inter-laboratory analytical precision suffices to account for almost all of their spread on the TAS and K20 vs. SiO2 diagrams.

On the occasion of the 65th birthday of K Alex Muller (KAM), the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory in Ruschlikon, with the help of J. Georg Bednorz, offered a compilation of almost all the publications he had authored or co-authored. Those two volumes encompass thewritings until 1992. They are very useful to access KAM's earlier work, with the more than 300 papers arranged in chronological order. When KAM turned seventy, Prof. KK Phua, chairman of World Scientific, suggested to collect relevant original work in a volume to be published by this well-established house. After some reflection, Muller thought this might be a reasonable undertaking, and selected, from the then more than 400 original publications, those he considered the relevant ones. The result is this book with its eleven chapters, arranged in topological rather than chronological order. In each chapter the pertinent publications in one specific area of investigations are grouped together. Therefore it should be easy for the reader to find a paper of interest to him or her. To bring this work up to date, it also includes KAM's articles on the topics in this book published after 1992 and publications by Tom Kool, the second author, who worked in the field of oxide perovskites as well and kept helping to realize and edit the present volume <...>