Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Delineation of Mine-Sites and Potential in Different Sea Areas, PDF eBook

Delineation of Mine-Sites and Potential in Different Sea Areas PDF

Part of the Seabed Minerals series

PDF

Download - Immediately Available
Please note: eBooks can only be purchased with a UK issued credit card and all our eBooks (ePub and PDF) are DRM protected.

Description

Prospecting and exploration for manganese nodules has, as its ultimate objective, the discovery and delineation of an area of the ocean floor with reserves of sufficient quantity and quality to support a mining operation under existing economic, technical and political conditions.

While prospecting concentrates primari- lyon the collection of geological information, an exploration programme includes other activities that relate to the develop- ment of technology, financial analysis of the prospect and environmental protection.

Such work on a deposit in turn leads to the development of a mine-site.

The mine-site concept brings together information in a way that recognizes the interplay among a number of dynamic factors which must satisfy a set of technical and economic conditions.

Defining a mine-site, therefore, is a process of accounting for those factors.

Throughout the years of meetings of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, many questions arose about ocean mine-sites.

Two related topics in particular received attention: the total number of available mine-sites, and the amount of area necessary for a mining operation.

Both of these topics have been subject to a great deal of speculation, and even with the best available information, there remains a degree of uncertainty that arises from both incomplete knowledge and natural variability in the seabed and the resource, and different technology and production objectives.

For example, estimates of the size of the area necessary for an ocean mine-site vary even when made by the same company.

Information

Other Formats

Save 14%

£89.50

£76.08

Download - Immediately Available
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Delivered to your inbox

to transfer to your device

eBook Help

Is this the right eBook for
my device? How do I download
this eBook? See help and FAQs pages

Information