Indium: Geology, Mineralogy, and Economics

by Peter M. Herzig and Ulrich Schwarz-Schampera

The extraordinary growth of the computer and semiconductor industries and the increasing consumption of indium in these technologies in recent years have placed major constraints on current and future reserves of this metal. In the past, geoscientists have noticed the occurrence of indium in a large variety of ore de- posits and detailed geochemical and mineralogical work is available for a few ex- amples. However, despite the current technological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642077269
• ISBN13: 9783642077265
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"