Book excerpt: Chapter 24. The distribution of Pt-group elements and the Pt-group minerals in the basic and ultrabasic rocks -- Chapter 25. The mineralogical and geochemical distribution of sulphides in basic and ultrabasic bodies -- Chapter 26. The significance of magnetite and magnetite with titaniferous "ex-solution" in basic and ultrabasic rocks -- Chapter 27. On the alteration and weathering of basic and ultrabasic rocks -- Chapter 28. Textures of olivine serpentinisation -- Chapter 29. The reaction chromite-serpentine -- Chapter 30. Differential leaching of elements from ultrabasic rocks and birbiritisation of dunites -- Chapter 31. Low-temperature mobilisation of the Pt-group elements in lateritic covers (Synoptical discussion) -- Chapter 32. Alteration of dunite, magnesite formation -- Chapter 33. Lateritisation processes of serpentine and altered dunitic rocks -- Chapter 34. Metasomatic alterations of ultrabasics (e.g. Rodingites) -- Illustrations -- Fig. 1-Fig. 258 -- Fig. 259-Fig. 515 -- Fig. 516-Fig. 733b -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index to the Text Part -- Subject Index to the Illustrations