Socio-economic and Environmental Implications of the Hydroelectric Projects in Uttarakhand Himalaya, India

This paper deals with detailed analysis of the fiasco created by the Tehri High Dam in Uttarakhand, India, particularly in terms of resettlement and rehabilitation of the local inhabitants. Aspects pertaining to the environmental issues are also discussed. Currently, the river valleys in Uttarakhand state of India are the targets of increasing hydroelectric projects. Virtually all rivers are being exploited for generating environmental friendly power. Having being learned the hard lesson from Tehri Dam, it has been decided to opt for such schemes in which comparatively little submergence and tempering with the fragile eco-systems is involved.However, our observations suggest that even in such schemes if due care is not taken they may turn out to be a failure.     

Mantle processes during ocean formation：Petrologic records in peridotites from the Alpine－Apennine ophiolites

Mantle peridotites were early exposed at the sea-floor of the Jurassic Tethys derived from the subcontinental mantle of the Europe-Adria system. During continental rifting and oceanic spreading, these lithospheric peri-dotites were percolated via diffuse reactive porous flowby melt fractions produced by near-fractional melting of the upwelling asthenosphere. Ascending melts inter-acted with the lower lithosphere, dissolving pyroxenes and precipitating olivine, and crystallized at shallower levels in the mantle column causing melt impregnation.Subsequent focused porous flow formed replacive dunitechannels, cutting the impregnated oeridotites, which were conduits for upward migration of MORB-type liq-uids. Melt migration produced depletionlrefertilization and significant heating of the percolatedlimpregnated mantle, i.e the thermochemical erosion of the litho-sphere. Impregnated and thermally modified lithos-pheric mantle was cooled by conductive heat loss dur-ing progressive lithosphere thinning and was intrudeaby MORB magmas, which formed Mg-rich and Fe-richgabbroic dykes and bodies. Alpine-Apennine ophiolitic peridotites record the deep-seated migration of melts which changed their compositions and dynamics during the rift evolution. The thermochemical erosion of the lithospheric mantle by the ascending asthenospheric melts, which induces significant compositional and rhe-ological changes in the lower lithosphere, is a major process in the evolution of the continent-ocean transi-tion towards a slow spreading oceanic system.     

河南省金矿资源形势及对策

我省金矿资源较丰富,金矿地质工作的突破给黄金生产带来巨大发展。但黄金生产过热状况,给地勘单位造成压力,迫使地勘单位采取“竭泽而渔”的办法,进行金矿勘探工作,其结果削弱了基础地质和前期普查工作,影响金矿地质工作的发展后劲。金矿地质是黄金生产发展的基础,为使我省黄金生产发展有足够的资源保证,笔者建议要进一步贯彻“矿产资源法”,依法勘察。完善金矿储量承包制,提高承包价格。引进新理论,新方法,在突破金矿新类型上下功夫。要充分利用金矿资源,合理采、选、冶。改善金矿地质工作的外界环境,在有条件的情况下,走“探建结合”道路,以推动我省金矿地质工作的发展,使我省金矿资源,得以更有效地应用。     

黄金的成色

黄金的成色并不是一成不变的，它成色的高低是与成矿温度、成矿阶段、深度、时代、变质程度、水溶液及风化作用等有一定关系，我们从这些关系中可以寻找到我们找矿的捷径和依据。     

陕西双王,蒲峪金矿床中碲金矿矿物特征研究

对陕西太白双王碱性碳酸盐岩浆热液金矿床，华阴蒲峪大白团金石英脉型金矿床中碲金矿的产出特征，物理光学性质，化学组成进行了较详细的研究。对矿物的显微硬度，反射率色散值，化学成分进行了测定，提供了可靠的测试数据。     

山东界河金矿微斜长石热发光强度圈定矿体的意义

对界河金矿微斜长石热发光研究表明，其强度与金品位有较好的正相关性，可利用此特点圈定矿体，区分富矿与贫矿，并发现矿体具有分枝复合的特点，向深部变大，由此圈出了新矿体。