Mineral Resource Development

Name: Mineral Resource Development
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

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 Offshe