矿床地质学的发展前景和思维方法

矿床地质学正面临着为社会提供充足的能源和资源的严重挑战。新时期的矿床学将朝着整体化和综合化的方向发展，将研究和发现多种新型的矿产资源和新的矿床类型，以满足日益增长的人类物质文明和精神文明的需要。本文提出广义的矿产资源的概念；主张根据矿床地质学的特点，改善矿床学研究的思维方法，主要是：①坚持实践第一，尤其是野外实践；②建立系统观念；③加强成矿历史分析；④提高经济意识，研究矿业经济趋势；⑤发展创造思维，以期取得成矿理论的突破进展，建立新的矿产资源地质学知识体系。

PROSPECTS AND METHODOLOGY OF THE GEOLOGY OF MINERAL DEPOSITS

Economic geologists are facing a major challenge of providing sufficient mineralresources to satisfy the ever increasing social demand.The major task of economic geolo-gists in the future will be discovery and study of new types of natural resources and miner-al deposits. Ore-forming process is an intergrated,dynamic system in the evolutionarylithosphere.In order to develope the economic geology,it is necessary to improve themethodology of research in this discipline. The key point8are:①practice,particularly fieldpractice comes first:②build up a sense of systematics:③enhance studies of the ore-form-ing history ;④pay more attention to mining economics;⑤promote creative thinking toachieve a breakthrough in metallogenic theory.