Mineral development in the eighties: prospects and problems

Book · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1976

OSTI ID:5424459

The need to orderly develop natural resources throughout the world, of economic benefit to both producers and consumers, is considered. The physical adequacy of mineral supplies and the likelihood of significant artificial restrictions of supplies are examined. After a review of how the former systems of organizing capital for mineral development outside the industrialized countries used to operate, the study describes the main causes for the present unsatisfactory pause in mineral investment. The implications for the patterns of world mineral development during the 80s if no improvement of the current situation proves politically feasible and suggestions for easing present difficulties are pointed out.

• OSTI ID: 5424459
• Report Number(s): BN-19
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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GLOBAL ASPECTS
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INVESTMENT
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