Mungall edited the Short Course Series Volume 35 on behalf of the Mineralogical Association of Canada. The 537-page text were released in 2006 to the Internet. The principal aim of this book and the short course is to bridge a gap between exploration geologists and academics. In keeping with the educational mandate of UNESCO, which has generously sponsored the activities of IGCP Project 479, our goal is to disseminate current knowledge of platinum group element ore genesis and exploration techniques to as wide an audience as possible worldwide.
To further promote global dissemination of knowledge, the text will be available for free download from the MAC on the Internet after a one-year moratorium. This text is designed to give a progression from the general to the specific, while focusing on factual information and avoiding unnecessary attention to some of the more contentious issues surrounding petrogenesis of PGE deposits.
Introductory chapters by J.E. Mungall and J.J. Hanley provide an overview of the geochemical controls on the distribution of PGE in the Earth's crust. An attentive reader should be able to apply the contents of these first two chapters to make critical appraisals of the enormous range of petrogenetic models they will encounter in the published literature on PGE deposits.
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