矿产资源是人类社会发展的重要物质基础, 绝大部分矿产属于不可再生资源, 因此, 迫切需要新的思路和方法实现矿产资源增储和高效绿色开发。本文提出创建一门新兴交叉学科——“诱导成矿学”的基本设想, 该学科主要研究如何利用人工干预手段, 加速并控制成矿元素的活化、迁移与富集, 使得当前技术经济条件下不具开采价值的矿物岩石、低品位矿石以及尾矿、工业废弃物等转化为具有一定经济价值的矿产资源。“诱导成矿学”以岩石学、矿物学、矿床学、地球化学和构造地质学等地质学主要分支学科为基础, 融合化学、生物学和环境科学等学科的新进展, 旨在表生成矿人工调控和人类世矿产再造两个研究领域对矿产资源的增储和开发提出变革性思路和方案。
Mineral resources are fundamental to the development of human society, and most of the mineral resources are non-renewable. It is urgent to find new ideas and methods to increase the reserves and to achieve efficient and green utilization of mineral resources. We propose to start a new interdiscipline, i.e., induced metallogeny, which will be mainly focused on how to enhance the activation, migration, and enrichment of ore-forming elements through diverse artificial methods, so as to transform minerals and rocks with no economic value under current technical and economic conditions, low-grade ores, tailings, and industrial wastes into economic mineral resources. Induced metallogeny is based on major branches of geosciences including petrology, mineralogy, metallogeny, and geochemistry, and integrates chemistry, biology, and environmental science. It is aimed to innovate techniques in the utilization of supergene and Anthropocene mineral resources and increase the reserves of strategic metals.