Author: Meher D N Wadia
Publisher: National Book Trust
Year: 1966
Language: English
Pages: 258
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8123707746
Description
In the expanding economy of the country, the importance of popularizing knowledge of India's mineral resources and their exploitation, indigenous fabrication and export by our industrialists and entrepreneurs cannot be over emphasized. In the present compilation, Mrs. Wadia puts forth, in systematic form and simple language, information on minerals and metals of India.
After graduation and training as a teacher from Bombay University, Mrs. Meher D N Wadia worked as an educator for some years in institutions in Ahmedabad and Surat. One of her interests has been production of popular scientific literature as an aid to general knowledge and adult education. She has published adaptations of elementary scientific treatises on geographical and geological subjects in Gujarati.
Dr. Srivastava who has revised the fifth edition is a fellow of Geological and Mining Society of India, member of the Mining and Geological Institute of India and fellow of the Geo-Chemical Society of India. He has more than 40 years of professional experience in carrying out geological mapping and mineral and ground water investigations in different parts of India
Contents
Preface
CHAPTER I
Rock Systems of India
CHAPTER II
Man, Minerals and Metals
CHAPTER III
Water
CHAPTER IV
Clays
CHAPTER V
Sands, Lime, Cement
CHAPTER VI
Building Stones
CHAPTER VII
Coal, Lignite, Peat
CHAPTER VIII
Petroleum and Natural Gas
CHAPTER IX
Ores and Metals
CHAPTER X
Ores and Metals (Contd.)
CHAPTER XI
Ores and Metals (Contd.)
CHAPTER XII
Precious and Semi-precious Stones
CHAPTER XIII
Economic Minerals and Mineral Products
CHAPTER XIV
Economic Minerals and Mineral Products (Contd.)
CHAPTER XV
Economic Minerals and Mineral Products (Contd.)
CHAPTER XVI
Rare Earth Minerals
CHAPTER XVII
Minerals and National Reconstruction
CHAPTER XVIII
National Mineral Policy and Planning of Mineral Development
Select Bibliography
Index