What are mineral deposits?

How do they form?

---https://www.britannica.com/science/mineral-deposit/Formation-of-mineral-deposits

Charracteristics of Mineral Deposits

Types of Mineral deposits

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Impacts

Mineral Deposits

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We define mineral deposits as natural accumulations of minerals in the earth crust, in form of one or several mineral
bodies which can be extracted at the present time or in an immediate future. Mineral deposits (metallic, non-metallic and
combustible materials) constitute major raw materials for industrial development today, and the demand for these raw
materials is ever increasing. Mineral deposits include several different types related to magmatic, hydrothermal,
sedimentary and metamorphic processes.

Classification of deposits
Generally we can classify mineral deposits  into two major groups: Industrial and non industrial. Several classification
concepts exist today. All these concepts have advantages and disadvantages. In general the classifications have to be
applicable with scientific and useful bases.

a) Classification according to environment of formation: Sedimentary, magmatic and metamorphic ore deposits.

b) Classification according to form or symmetry of the mineral deposit: The symmetry or the form of a deposit gives very
defined groups of different locations.

c) Classification according to the content in chemical elements: It is possibly the most scientific way.

We consider Gondwana as a complex amalgamation of different parts of different ages. During earth history many ore
building processes took place within different geotectonic situations. Therefore mineral deposits located in the continent
once belonging to Gondwana are treated in a general sense. In this section we do not delve into details of mineral deposits
of Gondwana, rather we just mention a few of these deposits.

These deposits include for example gold, copper, diamonds, iron, oil, salt, coal and many more. Even the distribution of
mineral deposits in Gondwana provides hints for the original configuration of the continents as for example the
distribution of the Middle Cambrian orogenic gold provinces in the world. (Haeberlin Y.; Moritz R.; Fontbote L. 2003)

Gold:

Bajo de la Alumbrera (Argentina), Witwatersrand (South Africa), New Wells of the South (Australia)

Copper:

Bajo de la Alumbrera (Argentina)

Diamonds:

Africa: Catoca, Camatue, Camajico, Camafuca, Camafuca-Camazambo (Angola), Orapa (Botswana), Mwadui (Tanzania).

South America: Mazurani (Guyana), Diamantino (Brazil), Guaniamo (Venezuela)