Future Global Mineral Resources

Global Mineral Resources , Occurrence and Distribution

Mineral resources and geo-engineering

Metals used in everyday life are produced from ores occurring in the Earth’s crust. Geological processes are known to concentrate minerals to form ores of economic value. Mineral processing engineers concentrate these ores by mechanical and physico-chemical methods while the extractive metallurgist extracts the metals by chemical means.

Mining and Exploration for Mineral Resources

Resourceship: An Austrian theory of mineral resources

Economists inside and outside of the Austrian-school tradition have formulated a subjectivist theory of mineral resources. While von Mises (1940) presented a rudimentary theory, institutionalist Zimmermann (1933 and after) provided an indepth mind-centered approach distinct from the objective, neoclassical theory for minerals developed by Jevons (1865, 1866), Gray (1913), and Hotelling (1931). ...

Global Mineral Maps on Mars

Introduction: Determining the mineralogy of Mars constitutes an essential part of understanding of the present and past condition of the surface. After two years of operation, the OMEGA imaging spectrometer on-board Mars Express has achieved near-global coverage with spatial resolution varying between 300 m and 4.8 km depending on the pericentre altitude of the spacecraft's highly elliptical or...