Cameroon has a strong geological potential for a number of mineral resources that, if well managed, could support economic growth. The country contains potentially large deposits of iron ore, gold, bauxite, diamond, limestone, nickel, and gemstones, and indices of other numerous minerals and precious metals. Despite its geological wealth, mining has never played a major role in Cameroon’s econo...

The management of mineral and coal resources is affected by the shift in paradigm regional government administration, which now emphasizes aspects autonomy. Law Number 23, 2014 concerning Regional Government, genuinely adheres to maxim maximal autonomy, appears be incompatible with 3, 2020 revision 4, 2009 on Mineral Coal Mining. In practice, this results a variety interpretations nature signif...

SUMMARY: The aim of this study is to apply the United Nations Framework Classification for Fossil Energy and Mineral Reserves and Resources 2009 (UNFC-2009) to a landfill-mining project to identify the landfilled materials as potential anthropogenic 'reserves' or 'resources', and to reveal critical factors for the classification of the project. Based on data from a landfill-mining project in Be...

The Mineral Potential Project currently being undertaken in British Columbia requires estimation d unknown mineral resources. The method of resource assessment known as the BC Mineral Resource Assessment Process [19931. is described by Kilby (1995, this volume) and in Grunsky et al. (1.994). The method is based on the three-part ssessment methodology developed by the United States Geologica...

For many people the term sustainable mining is an oxymoron. After all, mining entails the exploitation of non-renewable resources. Eventually these resources will be gone and mining will have to cease. As a result, many concerned individuals urge society to conserve non-renewable resources and where possible to use renewable resources instead. Drawing on what we have learned from the debate ove...

ABSTRCT: The importance of innovative talents cultivation for mineral processing engineering is discussed. From the new training program of mineral processing specialty formulating and implementing, the thought of innovation talents cultivation for mineral processing engineering was discussed. It is suggested to construct the research subject curriculum system, play the role of teaching masters...

Prospecting for in situ mineral resources is essential for establishing settlements on the Moon and Mars. To reduce human effort and risk, it is desirable to build robotic systems to perform this prospecting. An important issue in designing such systems is the sampling strategy: how do the robots choose where to prospect next? This paper argues that a strategy called Adaptive Cluster Sampling (...