Geology and Exploration of New Zealand Mineral Deposits.: A. B. CHRISTIE AND R. L. BRATHWAITE, Editors. Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Monograph 25. Pp 350. 2006. ISBN 978 1 920806 52 1. Price A$80.

Abstract

This book is one of a series, published since 1962 by the AusIMM, that focuses on aspects of mining and economic geology of the Oceania region. Monograph 25 is the third of a series devoted to New Zealand, following Monographs 4 and 13. Another monograph, published by the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, dealt with the tectonics and metallogeny of New Zealand and provides a comprehensive list of all deposits and occurrences known as of 1993 (Brathwaite and Pirajno, 1993). Monograph 25 is edited by two well-known geoscientists who have devoted most of their professional life to the economic geology of New Zealand, a country not especially renowned for its mining industry but with the considerable advantage of having a range of tectonic settings conducive to several kinds of ore systems within a comparatively small geographic area. This rare advantage provides the international geoscientific community with insights into the relationship between ore-making systems and tectonic environments. Monograph 25 comprises a total of 47 papers, with 21 papers that describe epithermal systems, nine on orogenic gold-tungsten-antimony lodes, eight on alluvial gold and placer iron sands deposits, and three that deal with offshore minerals such as ferromanganese nodules and fascinating accounts of submarine ore systems in the Kermadec arc. One paper …