This course focuses on the earth natural resources that can be exploited and applied in the industry for metallic and non-metallic minerals. The topics include introduction to economic geology, industrial minerals and beneficiation, ore minerals, ore genesis theory on internal and surface processes, iron ore, gold mineralization, copper deposits, volcanogenic ore deposits, placer deposits, diamond and the practice of economic geology in the mining cycle. Familiarization for both industrial and ore minerals were done through observation in laboratory.