Contents: Hon'ble Reviewers. Preface. Acknowledgements. Professor Bhawani Shanker Paliwal an appreciation. I. Crustal Evolution and Economic Mineralization: 1. Granulite Facies Terrains of India and their potential for mineral deposits/Ram S. Sharma. 2. The Malani Super Continent: Middle East connection during late proterozoic/Naresh Kochhar. 3. Precambrian Crustal Evolution and Metallogeny/A.B. Roy. 4. Precambrian Crustal Development and Metallogenic Evolution of Bastar Craton, Central India/K.L. Rai. 5. Mineral exploration of the moon/N. Bhandari. 6. Possible role of sulfur on the early diversification of life on earth : Astrobiological implications/Vinod C. Tewari and Julian Chela Flores. 7. Deep seismic reflection profiling and its implications to the Metallogeny of the Aravalli-Delhi Fold Belt, NW India/B. Rajendra Prasad and V. Vijaya Rao. 8. Tectonic polarity in plate tectonics - controlled interactions of Precambrian terrains of Rajasthan Craton/S. Sinha - Roy. II. Economic Mineralization of Igneous Affiliation: 9. An Ore-genetic model for the Gogi Hydrothermal - type Uranium deposit in the Neoproterozoic Bhima Basin, Southern India/S.A. Pandit and R. Dhana Raju. 10. Volcanogenic PneumatoHydrothermal Intrusive and Collapse Breccia Deposit of Fluorite at Jalera Khurd in Malani Igneous Suite, Northwest India/K.L. Shrivastava and Virendra Gaur. 11. Tungsten Mineralization Associated with Felsic Magmatisms in Purbani Region of Kinnaur District, Himachal Higher Himalaya/Brajesh Singh and Santosh Kumar. 12. Huebnerite/Ferberite (H/F) ratio and depositional conditions for wolframite : An overview/Sukh Chain and P.K. Srivastava. 13. Tungsten Metallogeny of the Sirohi Group, Rajasthan/Kamal Kant Sharma. 14. Ophiolite Suite of Rocks in Manipur-Nagaland as hosts for Chromites and related economic minerals : A review/O.P. Goel and Arun Kumar. 15. Experimental, Petrological and field constraints on the petrogenesis the economic carbonatites with special reference to the Sarnu-Dandali Area, Northwestern India/K.L. Shrivastava, Yasmin Sayyed, Mamta Chauhan and Ernst Hegner. 16. Occurrence of Zinc rich A-type granites in the Trans-Aravalli Anorogenic Ring Complexes, Northwestern India/G. Vallinayagam. 17. Structural setting of the Nepheline Syenite Pluton, West of Khariar, Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt, Orissa, India/T.K. Biswal and Harish Ahuja. 18. Stanniferous Pegmatite's on the Eastern Flank of the Bailadila Iron Range, Dantewara District Chhattisgarh/R.K. Trivedi and L.K. Soni. 19. A note on significance of high Rubidium in Lithium Mica from Govindpal Area of Bastar District, Chhattisgarh/Pooja Shrivastava and V.K. Khanna. 20. Geological characteristics and genesis of the soapstone deposit around Sarada Inlier, Rajasthan/A.K. Shandilya, N. Srivastave, M.K. Singh and S.K. Gahlot. III. Economic Mineralization of Sedimentary Affiliation: 21. Myrmekitic textures from the Polymetallic sulphide deposit of Dariba-Rajpura, Rajasthan, India/T.K. Pandya, S.L. Solanki and M.K. Pandya. 22. Beach sand resources and industry in India/G.S. Roonwal. 23. Polymetallic polynodule from Indian Ocean Nodule Field/K.L. Shrivastava, Virendra Gaur C.P. Dadhich, D.C. Gupta, R.P. Tripathi and Amita Tripathi. 24. Records of NeoPleistocene Glaciation, desertification and formation of economic salt lakes Playas in Western Rajasthan/V.P. Laul. 25. Geological constraints on the Bentonite Facies of the Barmer Basin, Western Rajsthan, India/S.C. Mathur, R.S.Loyal, S.L. Nama and N.S. Negi. 26. The clay deposits of Bikaner District, Rajasthan geological setting, genesis and quality assessment for industries/A.K. Shandilya, S.K. Gahlot and N. Srivastave. 27. Basin terminology and classifications: A review/A.K. Biyani and Divya Dudeja. 28. Depositional environment and industrial importance of Bilara Limestone, West of Nagaur, Western Rajasthan/Meeta Khilnani and Satvindar Singh. 29. Banded iron mineralization in the Gwalior Group of Rocks/P.K. Jain. 30. A note on the occurrence of Clitellate Cocoons from Giral and Barsinghsar Lignite Deposits, Rajasthan/R.P. Tripathi and B.D. Sharma. 31. Sedimentology and geochemistry of the overbank sediments of the Cooum River, Tamil Nadu/Pavitra Aravamudhan, Hema Achyuthan and Navin Shankar. 32. An overview of the mineral resources of Rajasthan, India/Arun Vyas. 33. A profile of the industrial mineral resource potential of Orissa/Madhumita Das and Shreerup Goswami. IV. Prospecting and Exploration: 34. Information theoretic applications in mining/B.K. Sahu. 35. Application of Termitaria in Pb Zn prospecting : A case study from Chauraiya, Damoh District, Madhya Pradesh/P.O. Alexander and D.R. Patel. 36. Present status and future trends of biological methods of prospecting for economic mineral deposits/S.K. Trivedi and K.K. Solanki. 37. An integrated approach for Kimberlite exploration in Raipur District, Chhattisharh/M.S. Khatediya and Pramod K. Verma. 38. Rock mass classification system to rock excavation/cutting/boring applications/Rajiv Badal. 39. 57 Fe Mossbauer spectroscopic study of Petroleum prospecting test well rocks from the three basins of India/R.P. Tripathi, Abhijit Kulshreshtha, Amita Tripathi and K.L. Shrivastava. 40. Petroleum geology and hydrocarbon prospects in the Barmer Sanchor Basin, Northwest India/Mamta Chauhan, Jaimini Swadia, Tina Prajapat and K.L. Shrivastava. 41. The First Fifty Year's Record and a new beginning in mineral discovery in India with special reference to base metals/S.K. Haldar. V. Mining, Economics and Environment: 42. How to make Artisanal Gold Industry Viable and eco-friendly?/U. Aswathanarayana. 43. Characterization of land degraded due to mining and their rehabilitation in Arid Region of Rajasthan/D.C. Joshi and K.D. Sharma. 44. Bioleaching of metals from sulphide minerals: A review/V. Sheoran. 45. Environmental impact of coal mining activity on trace element concentration of natural waters in Pench Valley Coalfield Area, Chhindwara District, Madhya Pradesh/D.C. Gupta. 46. Impact of mining on biodiversity in India/D.K. Khandelwal, Shishir Sharma, Kalpana Khandelwal and Rajni Sharma. 47. Passive treatment of acid mine drainage from sulphide mineral mining and processing industry/A.S. Sheoran and V. Sheoran. 48. Land degradation environmental impact of clay mining in Kolayat, Bikaner/Shishir Sharma, D.K. Khandelwal, A.K. Shandilya and Rajni Sharma. 49. A remote sensing study on environment impact of mining : A case study of Rampura Agucha Mine/N.K. Kalra, T.S. Sharma, Ashok Gehlot and Rajeeve Jain. 50. Demand and supply for geoscientists in India for the twenty-first century/Mike Katz. 

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