One of the rare consensus among the different resources-base economic analytical approaches concerns to the strategic role of the mineral rent, as a decisive tool to assure that the temporary wealth generated in the present can turn into permanent income in the future. For this reason, the evaluation, distribution and use of the mining rent plays a central part in the mining city’s development ...

Our civilization is based on metals, among other life supports. The existing ore deposits are becoming rapidly depleted by almost exponentially increasing demand and production and major new ore discoveries are needed. Mineral exploration is supported by modern tools and scientific ideas, but geological characteristics of orebodies and their rock associations have still to be visualized.The tim...

Mineral resources provide an important material foundation for industrial construction and are the economy, thus being closely integrated into our daily lives near future [...]