Mineral resources, vital for any society, have historically driven exploration in Iceland through three key phases. Early Icelandic settlers to America and Australia got hooked on gold exploration at the onset of the nineteenth century, and brought this knowledge back when they returned home. In the 1970s, Yugoslav geologist Slobodan Jankovi led a comprehensive exploration for economic resources, especially metals around large intrusions. The 1990s marked the third phase, linking geothermal systems to gold and metal deposition, exemplified by metal-rich scales in the Reykjanes peninsula.This book covers historical accounts, newspaper stories, and scientific results. The first chapters explore ore deposits in old volcanic centres, silicic bodies and young volcanic systems. The second section covers story-cases about gold, silver and other metals, and also includes a chapter focused on the Faeroe Islands, the nearby archipelago with a similar geology to Iceland.
Richard Pokorný, PhD, is a Czech palaeontologist, speleologist, traveller, and promoter of popular science. He has long been involved in scientific activities in northern Europe with a focus on Iceland and the Faroe Islands. For this purpose, he founded the Institute Julius von Payer for Subarctic and Arctic Research at the University of Jan Evangelista in Ústí nad Labem (UJEP), Czechia, bringing together specialists on biotopes in the Earth's cold regions. He has authored eight books and over 90 journal articles.Helgi Torfason, PhD, is an Icelandic geologist and ex-director of the Icelandic Museum of Natural History. The main scope of his research has been in the fields of geothermal exploration, geologcal mapping and geological conservation. He has worked in Iceland and in Kenya, exploring geothermal areas prior to utilization. As well as numerous specialist reports, he has published several papers, chapters in books and geological maps.
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