Geology, Geochemistry and Formation of Supergene Mineral Deposits in Deeply Weathered Terrain (深風化地形中的超基因礦床地質學、地球化學與形成過程)

本書提供了所有主要超基因礦床的綜合概述。它討論了當代和經典的礦床，並依據一個廣泛的數據庫，提供超基因礦床的地質、礦物學和地球化學特徵。超基因過程或富集是指那些相對接近地表發生的過程，與深層的隱基因過程相對。超基因過程包括降水循環的主導作用，伴隨著氧化和化學風化。下降的降水會氧化原始（隱基因）礦物並重新分配化學元素。當從氧化岩石或礦石中浸出來的元素在地下水中向下遷移，並對水的pH值、氧化潛力和化學成分的變化作出反應，或與基岩相互作用時，就會發生超基因富集。在這些環境中，商業上重要的化學元素可以被富集，形成完全由超基因過程生成的礦體。這包括鋁（鋁土礦）、鐵（鑄鐵）、鋰（鹽水或蒸發岩）、鈾（石灰岩）、稀土元素（粘土礦床）、基礦（次級硫化物或氧化礦）、銀和金。

Rob Bowell is Corporate Consultant with SRK Consulting and an adjunct professor in the Department of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada and a research fellow of the Queen's Facility for Isotope Research. He has 35 years of experience in the global mining industry. His background is in exploration and mining in tropical and deeply weathered terrain's including extensive work in Equatorial and Southern Africa, South America and Southeast Asia. He holds degrees in chemistry, geology, chemical engineering and a PhD in geochemistry on the occurrence of oxide gold deposits in Ashanti, Ghana. He has worked for TCL, Ashanti and Minorco prior to joining SRK. For the last 29 years he has worked in mining consulting in the fields of due diligence, financial and technical audits, process chemistry, environmental geochemistry, environmental engineering and mineralogy. Specializes in the application of chemistry and mineralogy to solve engineering problems. Has been involved in the discovery of copper projects that have been developed into mines in DRC, Namibia and Zambia and discovered Gold and Diamond deposits in the Dodoma region of Tanzania and in northern Mozambique. He is currently involved in the development of the Kuene Copper districty in Northern Namibia. He has authored/coauthored over 250 papers, edited monographs and reports including one on Arsenic as Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry, volume 79 and edited as well contributed to volumes on applied chemistry/geochemistry for Nova Publishing series on chemical elements. He is deputy chief editor for Geochemistry, Exploration, Environment and Analysis and past president of the Association of Applied Geochemists.

Rob Bowell 是 SRK Consulting 的企業顧問，並擔任加拿大安大略省金士頓女王大學地質科學與地質工程系的兼任教授，以及女王大學同位素研究中心的研究員。他在全球礦業界擁有 35 年的經驗，專長於熱帶及深度風化地形的勘探與採礦，並在赤道非洲、南部非洲、南美洲及東南亞有廣泛的工作經歷。他擁有化學、地質學、化學工程的學位，並在加納阿散蒂的氧化金礦床的地球化學方面獲得博士學位。在加入 SRK 之前，他曾在 TCL、Ashanti 和 Minorco 工作。過去 29 年來，他在礦業顧問領域從事盡職調查、財務及技術審核、過程化學、環境地球化學、環境工程及礦物學等工作。他專注於應用化學和礦物學來解決工程問題。曾參與發現已開發為礦場的銅項目，位於剛果民主共和國、納米比亞和贊比亞，並在坦尚尼亞的多多馬地區及莫三比克北部發現金和鑽石礦床。目前，他正參與納米比亞北部的 Kuene 銅區的開發。他已發表/合著超過 250 篇論文，編輯專著和報告，包括在《礦物學與地球化學評論》第 79 卷中關於砷的專題，並編輯及貢獻於 Nova Publishing 系列的應用化學/地球化學卷。他是《地球化學、勘探、環境與分析》的副主編，並曾擔任應用地球化學家協會的會長。