Mineral Exploration and mining activities have been undertaken in Sulawesi since the turn 19th century, but by world standartslage parts of the region remain underexplored. Todate only two commodities have been mined on a significan scale, viz. Gold with a total production of about 90 t (excluding artisanal mining), and nickel totaling about 4.8 Mt…
. The synoptic view afforded by orbiting earth sensors can be' extremely valuable for resource evaluation, environmental monitoring and development planning. For many regions of the world, however, cloud cover has prevented the acquisition of remotely sensed data during the most environmentally stressed periods of t…
The nineteenth Proopecting for Mineral Pesource sesslon of 1 the Committee for 8Iordination of Joint in sian offahote Areas (CCOP) nd en el 2 NOvember to 10 December 100 iahth sesion of the Jaint COP-1OC working Croup on Post-IDOE Studies in East Asian Tectonics and sour ces, and the Eighth Project met nd 4 December, tespectively. of the Northuest Q…
Radioactive detrital heavy minerals are found in the beaches and coastal thelves of te Capoas-Erawan area, San Vicente, Palawan. Allanite, sphene, zircon and monuzite ae the min suspected to contain uranium, thorium and rare earths (e-g Ce, Y) Other heavy minerals, tope rutile, anatase, castiterite, muscovite, hornblende, orthoclase and plagioclase …
WORLD URANIUM RESOURCES, PRODUCTION AND DEMAND.
Reasonably assured resources of uranium in WOCA (World Outside the Centrally
Plannned Economies Area) countries recoverable at less than US $80/kg U increased by about 9%
between 1983 and 1985 and currently stand at 1.5 million tonnes. Uranium also exists in
si…
With the emergence of the ASEAN countries as one of the most rapidly-growing economies in the world (7% average annual growth over the last 5 years), a lot of attention has been drawn on the success factors that propelled this remarkable phenomenon. Energy has been talked about as a contributing factor to this• sustained pattern of economic …