Summary of “The Origin of Rocks and Mineral Deposits – Using Current Physical Chemistry of Small Particle Systems”

This important book is a comprehensive interdisciplinary scientific treatise that introduces revolutionary new knowledge achieved by competent use of the scientific method. The research on which it is based has been more thoroughly and critically reviewed than is usual for scientific works and the international edition has recently been published.

Because it offers new understanding of geological processes of interest to scientists generally, the book’s publisher provides a highly informative 44-page PDF summary as a taster for interested readers. It can be downloaded here:

http://riviste.fupress.net/index.php/subs/article/view/26/16

John Elliston is a champion of the traditional scientific method. He is keenly aware of the malaise in modern science and the  intense competition for research grants that has resulted in strong bias towards politically expedient investigations believed favoured by funding authorities. Once thriving geology departments have been downgraded to small divisions in Department of Geography, Department of Environmental Sciences, etc. Success in mineral exploration is harder to achieve.

ABSTRACT
Using the basic scientific method of logical conclusions from direct observation it reinterprets geological phenomena and processes using currently established physical chemistry of small particle systems. The title of this book “The Origin of Rocks and Mineral Deposits – using current physical chemistry of small particle systems”¹ is not a boastful or exaggerated claim. It summarises the results of over 50 years of systematic industrial research that actually achieved an understanding of how modern surface chemistry now explains the otherwise puzzling features and textures we see preserved in the rocks and the release of ore minerals in various geological environments. It is the culmination of the work of many outstanding scientists guiding and mentoring a highly competent and successful mineral exploration team.