Economic Geology as a scientific study of Earth’s Resources

Economic Geology Unit is responsible for documentation and assessment of Jamaica’s mineral resources as well as making recommendation for their economic exploitation. Identifying and Valuing deposits of industrial minerals and Determining the commercial viability of different types of limestone, marbles, semi-precious stones as well as other industrial minerals. Making recommendations for the profitable exploitation and marketing of these minerals requires identification and evaluation and development of sources of skid resistance aggregate resources may provide assistance with the demarcation of quarry zones, then geological investigative sampling reports.

And in order to assist Government and Private organizations as well as members of the public with general geological mineral information and educational talks and tours are responsible. The Geological Context of economic minerals and their ore-forming processes and the characteristics of ore deposits are the module contents of Economic Geology.

Economic Geology is a sub restraint of the geosciences and we power it as a scientific study of the Earth’s sources of mineral raw materials and the practical application of the acquired knowledge and it was studied and practiced by geologists and also it may be interest to other professions such as engineers, environmental scientists because of far-reaching impact that extractive industries have a society, the economy and the Environment. The module aims is to provide petro logical controls on igneous and metasomatic ore body formation and their mineral exploration and aggregate production and uses.