SRK Consulting (UK) Limited (SRK) is an associate company of the international group holding company, SRK Consulting (Global). SRK provides a comprehensive range of consulting services to the resource industry. Consulting services are for mineral resource projects ranging from exploration, development and exploitation through to closure, and in the fields of geology, mining, infrastructure, bio...

In Brazil there are many regions where the extraction mining and processing of ores containing elements of great economical importance as tin, niobium and tantalum. Some of these ores have uranium and thorium natural decay series associated. This study was carried out in a niobium mine, where is obtained concentrates of niobates-tantalates, cassiterite and zirconite. The aim of this study is th...

Yunnan province is rich of mineral resources and the mining industry is the pillar industry in Yunnan. But with the development of mining economy, the problems of the ecological environmental damage have come out. Under the mechanism of ecological environment compensation, the mining economic development in Yunnan needs to deal well with the problems of environmental protection. According to th...

Mining has become a controversial business everywhere. Issues of mining are in the wake because of the increasing demands for mineral products and diminishing nature of such minerals in the West. This seemingly opportunity for developing countries like Ghana which have mineral deposits comes with its accompanying repercussions. This paper looks at the general mining environment as a whole, narr...

empirical studies have shown that the size distribution of firms can be described as a lognormal or pareto distribution. however, these studies have focused on developed countries and little attention has been devoted to developing countries. using the variable of number of employees as a measure of firm size, this paper investigates the shape of firm size distribution in the food & beverages i...