
Metals and the Mineral Industry is the first in a series of courses on extractive metallurgy by Fathi Habashi, written for university students as well as practicing engineers and metallurgists. Extractive metallurgy deals with ores as raw material and metals as finished products. Metallurgy has been transformed into a modern science as a result of developments in chemistry and chemical engineering.
This first course - Metals, Ore Deposits and Minerals - covers an introduction to metallurgy, properties of metals and their structures in the context of the Periodic Table, commercial classification of metals and their uses, metal production and recycling, mineral occurrences and prospecting/mining of ores, properties of mineral and ores, and sources of minerals.
For more information on the series and the author, see the Course Introduction page.