GENERAL GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -mineralogy, scientific discipline that is concerned with all aspects of minerals, including their physical properties, chemical composition, internal crystal structure, and occurrence and distribution in nature and their origins in terms of the physicochemical conditions of formation.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mineralogy, and the instrumentation that is necessary to determine the structure, composition, and properties of minerals, plays a central role in the various branches of earth sciences such as petrology, structural geology, geochemistry, sedimentology, geophysics, and economic geology.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mineralogy is the study of the chemistry, crystal structure and physical properties of the mineral constituents of rocks.

Detailed explanation-4: -A “mineral occurrence” is a concentration of a mineral (usually, but not necessarily, considered in terms of some commodity, such as copper, barite or gold) that is considered valuable by someone somewhere, or that is of scientific or technical interest.

Detailed explanation-5: -: a science dealing with minerals, their crystallography, properties, classification, and the ways of distinguishing them. : the mineralogical characteristics of an area, a rock, or a rock formation.