Marine Mineral Resources

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.

Global Mineral Resources , Occurrence and Distribution

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). ...

Estimating the value of marine resources: a marine recreation case

This paper discusses the concept o f economic value in relation to the appraisal of marine environmental resources. The difficulties of placing monetary values on environmental goods and services for which there is no market are briefly reviewed. A case study is presented which uses contingent valuation to estimate the user value associated with a recreational beach. The paper concludes that ec...