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MPE 201 Mineralogy and Petrology

ND2 levelEngineering & Technology15 topics

MPE 201 covers 15 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Mineral occurrence and abundance in the earth's crust
  2. Definition and scope of mineralogy and minerals
  3. Silicate rock-forming minerals and occurrence
  4. Classification of minerals
  5. Physical properties and identification of minerals
  6. Non-silicate mineral groups
  7. Crystallography and crystallographic axes
  8. Crystal systems and mineral examples
  9. X-ray crystallographic analysis
  10. Optical mineralogy
  11. Properties of light, reflection and refraction
  12. Polarization, isotropic and anisotropic minerals
  13. Petrological microscope and mineral analysis
  14. Igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks
  15. Rock structures, textures and classification

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Mineral occurrence and abundance in the earth's crust

Mineral occurrence and abundance in the Earth’s crust is fundamental to understanding ore genesis, resource distribution, and geological processes. Students must grasp the relative proportions of major, minor, and trace elements, the factors controlling their distribution, and how these patterns are recorded in rocks and sediments.

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