Mineral Resource Development

Geopolitics, Economics, And Policy

Harley E Johansen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

392 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-01213-7 (ISBN)

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This book developed out of a course in the College of Mines and Earth Resources at the University of Idaho in the fall of 1983. The course, entitled "Geographic Issues in Mineral Resource Development," was organized around a series of visiting lecturers representing a wide variety of research, industry, and government perspectives.

One of the most significant resource-development and industrial-policy issues facing the United States today is the continued decline of domestic production and processing of metallic minerals and the associated dependence on foreign supplies for our needs. Domestic mining and processing industries have suffered from various economic problems and

Preface -- Introduction -- International Development of Mineral Resources -- The Economic, Geopolitical, and Business Roots of a Global Minerals Industry: An Analysis of a National Economic and Industrial Debate -- Conflicting Goals of Mining Companies and Host Governments -- Geopolitics of Offshore Petroleum -- Shifting Patterns of Supply and Demand in the World Copper Industry -- Perspectives on National Mineral Development -- The Steel Import Problem in the United States: Causes and Cure -- Soviet Ferro-Ore Policies and Trends -- Regional Trends in Coal Use for Electricity Generation: Implications for the United States and United Kingdom -- Recent Trends in Marketing and Shipment of Mineral Concentrates in the Western United States -- Silver Prices and Market Speculation -- Mineral Development and the Local Area -- Land Status—A Spatial Variable in Mineral Acquisition and Development -- Time Exposures: The Evolving Landscape of an Arizona Copper-Mining District -- A Case Study of Risks in Developing Domestic Mineral Properties -- Geomorphic Response to Mining Disturbance -- Environmental and Socioeconomic Constraints: The Case of Oil Shale Development in the Green River Formation -- The Future of the Mineral Industry -- The Mineral Industry's Future

Erscheinungsdatum	13.05.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	146 x 225 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-367-01213-8 / 0367012138
ISBN-13	978-0-367-01213-7 / 9780367012137
Zustand	Neuware