Geology 352U Minerals in World Affairs

Winter 2017

M-W-F 10:15-11:20 am

Room: Cramer Hall

Jim Jackson

email: jjackson@pdx.edu

Office Hours: Monday and Friday 9:30-10:00 am, Wednesday 1:00-1:30 pm

Cramer Hall 17

Revised 14 March 2017

News Items: Geology-Engineering-Economics-Environment . . .

2017 Syllabus

Reading Assignments

9 Jan 17 Slides: Introduction to the Course

13 Jan 17 Slides: Model of Planet Formation, Crustal Processes

18 Jan 17 Slides: Elements, Minerals, Rocks, Partial Mantle Melting

Sierra Cobre Exercise

23 Jan 17 Slides: Hydrothermal Ores, Skarn

25 Jan 17 Slides: Comstock Lode, Rio Tinto District, Spain, Black Smokers

30 Jan 17 Slides: VMS, SEDEX

A Letter With A Purpose

1 Feb 17 Slides: Ores Formed Within Plutons, MVT, BIF

6 Feb 17 Slides: Soil Processes, Placer Deposits, Coals

8 Feb 17 Petroleum Systems

10 Feb 17 The Market Project

10 Feb 17 Slides Introduction to Commodities Markets

15 Feb 17 Joel Corcoran's Presentation: How to write a letter to a policy maker

22 Feb 17 Legal Framework of Extraction Industries

25 Feb 17 Hydropolitics

1 March 17 Scandals

3 March 17 Markets and Trade  (This file may be slow to load on Safari)

6 March 17 OPEC

9 March 17 Resource Assessment

13 March 17 Past Resource Use

15 March 17 Future Resource Use

Below you will find slides from the 2016 course.

Supplemental Slides: Facing Stones and Ore Hand Specimens

29 Feb 16 Oregon and US Extractive Industries

2 Mar 16 Population Trends