This work investigates the permissibility and viability of property rights on the celestial bodies, particularly the extraterrestrial aspects of land and mineral resources ownership. In lay terms, it aims to find an answer to the question “Who owns the Moon?”

In 1992, 13 companies operated 23 primary aluminum reduction plants. Based on published market prices, the output of primary metal in 1992 was valued at $5.2 billion. Packaging accounted for an estimated 35% of domestic consumption; transportation, 20%; building, 17%; electrical, 9%; consumer durables, 8%; and other uses, 11 %. Aluminum recovered in 1992 from purchased scrap was about 2.6 Mt, of which about 40% came from new (manufacturing) scrap and 60% from old scrap (discarded aluminum products). Aluminum recovered from old scrap was equivalent to about 30% of apparent consumption.

This memoir reports on the geology and mineral resources of about 220 000 km2 of ground, roughly the size of the island of Great Britain, constituting almost the sum total of what is loosely called here the ‘Bolivian shield’: that part of the Precambrian Brazilian Shield lying in Bolivia (Figure 1). The area lies in the Bolivian departments of Santa Cruz and Beni and is bounded to the north and east by Brazil.

It is often assumed that when China becomes aroused to the need of equipping herself with the tools and technique of America and Europe, there will be a great and rapid industrial and commercial advance comparable with that of England, Germany, and the United States during the last century. Her supposed untold wealth, in uvast resources” of raw materials and man power, when organized, is to produce, we are told, both the fiercest industrial competition the world has ever seen and the greatest potential market. The Industrial Revolution of the West, it is forebodingly asserted, is only the curtain-raiser for the vaster drama of the twentieth century to be played in Asia, where “the stage seems set for catastrophe.”

Горшков А.И., Дриц В.А., Дубинина Г.А., Богданова О.Ю., Сивцов А.В. Кристаллохимическая природа, минералогия и генезис Fe- и Fe — Mn-образований гидротермального поля горы Франклин    
Конюхов А.И., Чочия Г.Л. Гомогениты из глубоководных депрессий Ионического моря, их состав и условия образования        
Вотинцев К.К. Кремний в Байкале (содержание, распределение, баланс и биохемолимнические миграции)
Варсимашивили Э.В. Седимситологические особенности и генетические типы флишевых отложений раннемелового бассейна Южного склона Большого Кавказа

Polymeric materials are heavily loaded with mineral fillers such as talc, calcium carbonate (CaCO3) and silica from non-renewable resources such as limestone, sand, metamorphic rocks and rock deposits. These mineral fillers are found to increase the mechanical properties, thermal stability, process ability and fire retardancy of polymer composites. However, mining of these fillers can cause adverse effects on the environment such as depletion of natural flora and fauna, erosion of soil, instability of soil and rock masses and changes in the environmental landscape. <...>

The Antarctic Research Series: Statement of Objectives

The Mineral Resources of Gondwanaland

Toward a Quantitative Mineral Resource Assessment of Antarctica From a Gondwana Perspective

The Dufek Intrusion of Antarctica

The Economic Potential of the Dufek Complex

An Engineering Economic Evaluation of Mining in Antarctica: A Case Study of Platinum

Investigation of Mineralization in the South Shetland Islands, Gerlache Strait, and Anvers Island, Northern Antarctic Peninsula

Uranium Resource Evaluation in Antarctica

Geothermal Resources of Antarctica

Banded Iron Formations in East Antarctica

During the past century, scientists, world statesmen, and international entrepreneurs have become increasingly aware of the potential of the oceans as a source for minerals. This book provides an authoritative picture of the currentstate of marine mineral extraction. A major work of reference, it will be essential reading both for those engaged in maritime studies and for professional organizations involved in the extraction of underwater minerals.

The U.S. Congress directed the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to develop a program plan for its mineral-resource activities. In 1995, the USGS completed the Mineral Resource Surveys Program (MRSP) plan requested by Congress (Appendix A). To obtain an independent review of the five-year MRSP plan, the U.S. Geological Survey, in a letter from Dr. Willis H. White, the Chief of the USGS Office of Mineral Resources, requested in July, 1995, that the National Research Council (NRC) evaluate the MRSP plan and recommend improvements.