Theory teaching
General terms about mineral deposits. Classifications of metallic mineral deposits. Spatial and temporal evolution of metallic mineral deposits. Metallic mineral deposits and plate tectonics. Metallogenic division, metallogenic provinces and epochs. Environments of genesis, regional metallogenic position and epochs of creation of metallic mineral deposits. Geochemical features, cycle and distribution, minerals and ores, genetic and economic types of ore deposits of the following elements: Fe, Mn, Cr, Ti, V, Ni, Co, Bi, W, Sn, Cu, Mo, Pb-Zn, Sb, Hg, As, Al, Au, Ag, U, Th and PGE elements.

Practical teaching
Macroscopic and microscopic determination of ore samples. Analysis of economic types of ore and morphologic types of ore bodies on examples. Field work: Visiting significant metallic mineral deposits of Serbia. Introduction with the properties and graphical presentaion of the studied ore deposits.

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3. Evans A., 1993: Ore Geology and Industrail Minerals. University of Leicester, third ed. Blackwell Sci. 389 pp.