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Journal of Petrology | Volume 39 | Number 3 | Pages 551 | 1998
© Oxford University Press 1998

Minerals Handbook 1996–97. Statistics and Analyses of the World's Minerals Industry, by P. Crowson. Macmillan, London, 1996. 454 pp. Hardback. ISBN 0 333 64084 5. £99.

R. Ixer

University of Birmingham

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This is the eighth edition of the handbook (since 1978) and it contains mineral statistics for 52 world commodities given in alphabetical order from aluminium–bauxite–alumina to zirconium. These comprise six nonmetallic elements (boron, sulphur, etc.); three chemical feedstocks (potash, phosphate and soda ash); ten mineral commodities including asbestos, barytes, hard coal, industrial diamonds and vermiculite; and the rest are metallic elements or their ores (iron ore). Some elements are grouped together, notably . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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