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.

With the shift of global power center from Europe to Asia, Indo-Pacific, regarded as “maritime underbelly” has become geo-economics and geostrategic contestation. This significance Indo-Pacific maritime realm drawn attention several regional extra-regional powers since past decade. In this changing geopolitical scenario, security acquired primacy in Indian foreign policy discourse. To counter g...

identifying the change trends in forms of land surface is one of the main topics in geomorphic system. in this view, we try to assess the stability level of geo systems, boundary changes, instability and prediction of surface forms and processes response. this paper tries to conduct a comparative analysis on the geomorphic equilibrium paradigms, critical thresholds, environmental and natural ha...

Abstract Towards the end of Cold War, vocabulary global power, space and economy received a qualitative update. Amongst terms rapidly gaining prominence since early 1990s has been notion geoeconomics, coining which frequently attributed to strategist Edward N. Luttwak. In his interpretation, it signified transition away from War ideological military geopolitical competition towards commerce mar...