Mineralogy. By Dexter Perkins. ISBN 0-02-394501-X. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. 1998. Hardcover. 486 pages. $60.

Before beginning research to treat a mineral deposit, mineral processing engineers and extractive metallurgists must first thoroughly study the mineralogy of the deposit. For that reason, readers of JOM in these sectors should be aware of new books on mineralogy.

Mineralogy is divided into three parts. Part One, "Mineral Properties and Occurrences," discusses in 174 pages basic chemistry, classification of minerals and their properties, silicates, sedimentary ...

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