Download or read book The Impacts on the American Economy of Mining Industrial Minerals for Use in Manufacturing and Agriculture written by George F. Leaming and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Minerals Critical Minerals and the U S Economy written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2008-03-11 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minerals are part of virtually every product we use. Common examples include copper used in electrical wiring and titanium used to make airplane frames and paint pigments. The Information Age has ushered in a number of new mineral uses in a number of products including cell phones (e.g., tantalum) and liquid crystal displays (e.g., indium). For some minerals, such as the platinum group metals used to make cataytic converters in cars, there is no substitute. If the supply of any given mineral were to become restricted, consumers and sectors of the U.S. economy could be significantly affected. Risks to minerals supplies can include a sudden increase in demand or the possibility that natural ores can be exhausted or become too difficult to extract. Minerals are more vulnerable to supply restrictions if they come from a limited number of mines, mining companies, or nations. Baseline information on minerals is currently collected at the federal level, but no established methodology has existed to identify potentially critical minerals. This book develops such a methodology and suggests an enhanced federal initiative to collect and analyze the additional data needed to support this type of tool.

Download or read book Hardrock Mining on Federal Lands written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-11-03 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the result of a congressionally mandated study, examines the adequacy of the regulatory framework for mining of hardrock mineralsâ€"such as gold, silver, copper, and uraniumâ€"on over 350 million acres of federal lands in the western United States. These lands are managed by two agenciesâ€"the Bureau of Land Management in the Department of the Interior, and the Forest Service in the Department of Agriculture. The committee concludes that the complex network of state and federal laws that regulate hardrock mining on federal lands is generally effective in providing environmental protection, but improvements are needed in the way the laws are implemented and some regulatory gaps need to be addressed. The book makes specific recommendations for improvement, including: The development of an enhanced information management system and a more efficient process to review new mining proposals and issue permits. Changes to regulations that would require all mining operations, other than "casual use" activities that negligibly disturb the environment, to provide financial assurances for eventual site cleanup. Changes to regulations that would require all mining and milling operations (other than casual use) to submit operating plans in advance.

Download or read book The U S Mining and Mineral processing Industry written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Competitiveness of the U S Minerals and Metals Industry written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1990-02-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes an assessment of the global minerals and metals industry; a review of technologies in use for exploration, mining, minerals processing, and metals extraction; and a look at research priorities. The core of the volume is a series of specific recommendations for government, industry, and the academic community, to promote partnerships that will produce a strong flow of new technologies. Special focus is given to the role of the federal government, particularly the Bureau of Mines.

Download or read book Advances in the Characterization of Industrial Minerals written by G.E. Christidis and published by The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The advancement of human civilization has been intimately associated with the exploitation of raw materials. In fact the distinction of the main historical eras is based on the type of raw materials used. Hence, passage from the Paleolithic and Neolithic Age to the Bronze Age is characterized by the introduction of basic metals mainly copper, zinc and tin in human activities; the Iron Age is marked by the use of iron as the predominant metal. The use of metals has increased and culminated with the industrial revolution in the mid-eighteenth century, which marked the onset of the industrial age in the western world. Since then the importance of metals has gradually been surpassed by industrial minerals in the industrialized countries. Industrial minerals are raw materials used by industry for their physical and/or chemical properties. Characterization of industrial minerals is important for their assessment and can be demanding and often complicated. This new volume, co-published by the European Mineralogical Union and the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain & Ireland, is based on papers presented at an EMU-Erasmus IP School which was held in the Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece. The aim of the School was to describe advances in some of the analytical methods used to characterize industrial minerals and to propose additional methods which are currently not used for this purpose.

Download or read book The Mineral Industries in California written by Bruce McWilliams and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Future Problems of the Nation s Critical and Strategic Minerals and Metals Industry written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Study Problems of American Small Business. Subcommittee on Mining and Minerals Industry and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Minerals People and Dollars written by Lambert N. Wenner and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Environmental Effects of Surface Mining of Minerals Other Than Coal written by Bland Z. Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delfstoffen, die geen steenkool zijn, te verzachten.

Download or read book Mining and the American Economy written by George F. Leaming and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mining industries -- Direct economic impacts -- Indirect evonomic impacts -- Combined direct and indirect impacts -- Summary: impacts of metal, coal, construction and industrial mining industries -- Methodology -- Selected references.

Download or read book Economics of the Mineral Industries written by William A. Vogely and published by Society for Mining Metallurgy & Exploration. This book was released on 1985 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Status of the Mineral Industries written by United States. Bureau of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mining and the Environment written by International Development Research Centre (Canada) and published by International Development Research Centre Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mining and the Environment: Case studies from the Americas

Download or read book Minerals Critical Minerals and the U S Economy written by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Critical Mineral Impacts on the U.S. Economy and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Responsible domestic resources development and economic stability written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The U S Mining and Mineral Processing Industry written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an analysis of trends in the U.S. mineral industry, GAO studied the U.S. and foreign government actions that involve economic access to minerals, development and financing costs, labor costs, and energy availability and price. The closing of several zinc-processing facilities has reduced domestic capacity by almost 50 percent, and imports of zinc metal have increased 89 percent. Imports of chromium and manganese ores for use in making ferroalloys have declined, while imports of ferroalloys have increased substantially. Despite forecasts of annual growth in copper demand, no major new smelter or refinery capacity is likely before 1985; meanwhile, imports of refined copper over the last 10 years have risen from 6 percent to over 19 percent of U.S. consumption. Although demand for aluminum is forecast to grow at about 7 percent annually through 1985, U.S. aluminum production capacity is growing at only 1.4 percent annually, and imports of aluminum are expected to double by the year 2000. GAO compared U.S. and foreign government actions that influence these trends, and found that the U.S. Government: (1) limits the use of Federal lands for mineral exploration; (2) imposes strict environmental requirements which add significant costs to the development of domestic mineral projects (while some countries are either more lenient in their enforcement or provide assistance to defray costs); (3) restricts the use of joint ventures to pool resources and share risks; and (4) adds to the cost of labor by imposing worker health and safety requirements. There is much uncertainty regarding the future price and availability of energy supplies needed for the mineral industry due to the absence of a clear U.S. Government energy policy.