Abstract
It has been said that ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’, but a picture accompanied by a descriptive analysis is even more valuable. We hope that the full-colour photomicrographs in this part of the book will assist the accurate identification of heavy minerals by complementing the descriptions of grain morphology, optical and physical properties.
Go my sons, buy stout shoes, climb the mountains, search the valleys, the deserts, the sea shores and the deep recesses of the earth. Mark well the various kinds of minerals, note their properties and their mode of origin.
Petrus Severinus (1571)
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© 1992 Maria A. Mange and Heinz F. W. Maurer
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Mange, M.A., Maurer, H.F.W. (1992). Introduction. In: Heavy Minerals in Colour. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2308-2_6
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