History of Mineral Exploration and Exploitation of the Egyptian Nubian Shield

2020 ◽  
pp. 383-393
Author(s):  
Mohamed El-Sharkawi
Keyword(s):  
Mineral Exploration ◽  
Exploration And Exploitation ◽  
Nubian Shield ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals Dialektik der Erschließung: The German–Austrian Alps between Exploration and Exploitation

Humanities ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Sean Ireton
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
Travel Narratives ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Exploration And Exploitation ◽  
Nördliche Kalkalpen ◽  
Austrian Alps ◽  
Limestone Alps ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Alps

Focusing on the so-called Nördliche Kalkalpen or Northern Limestone Alps of Germany and Austria, I will discuss how human interaction with these mountains during the age of the Anthropocene shifts from scientific and athletic exploration to commercial and industrial exploitation. More specifically, I will examine travel narratives by the nineteenth-century mountaineers Friedrich Simony and Hermann von Barth, juxtaposing their respective experiences in diverse Alpine subranges with the environmental history of those regions. This juxtaposition harbors a deeper paradox, one that can be formulated as follows: Whereas Simony and Barth both rank as historically important Erschließer of the German and Austrian Alps, having explored their crags and glaciers in search of somatic adventure and geoscientific knowledge, these very sites of rock and ice were about to become so erschlossen by modernized tourism that one wonders where the precise boundaries between individual-based discovery and technology-driven development lie. In other words, during the nineteenth century a kind of Dialektik der Erschließung (a variation on Horkheimer and Adorno’s Dialektik der Aufklärung) manifests itself in the increasing anthropogenic alteration of the Alps.

5. Exploration and exploitation

2021 ◽  
pp. 81-107
Author(s):  
Klaus Dodds ◽  
Jamie Woodward
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
New World ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Industrial Scale ◽  
Exploration And Exploitation ◽  
Northwest Passage ◽  
Canadian North ◽  
History Of ◽  
Arctic Exploration ◽  
Last 300 Years

‘Exploration and exploitation’ reviews the history of Arctic exploration and exploitation, which owes a great deal to early European encounters with the 'New World'. This topic includes the earliest Viking settlement of Greenland to a succession of European explorers and expeditions that were designed to search for the Northwest Passage. The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), which specialized in fur trading, was integral to the early exploitation of the Canadian north since it was chartered in May 1670. The history and presence of industrial-scale mining in the Arctic over the last 300 years also played an important part. The term 'Arctic paradox', used by Arctic observers, describes a series of contradictory pressures facing the region—managing resources, promoting sustainable development, and ensuring that indigenous and northern communities are beneficiaries from any form of resource-led development.

Regolith Science

2009 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mineral Exploration ◽  
Soil Science ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Cooperative Research ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Elemental Abundances ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sulfate Soils ◽  
Unpublished Information ◽  
Comprehensive Reference

This comprehensive reference on the fundamentals of regolith geoscience describes how regolith is developed from parental rocks and emphasises the importance of chemical, physical, water and biological processes in regolith formation. It provides details for mapping regolith landforms, as well as objective information on applications in mineral exploration and natural resource management. Regolith Science also provides a concise history of weathering through time in Australia. It includes previously unpublished information on elemental abundances in regolith materials along with detailed information on soil degradation processes such as acid sulfate soils. Written by experts in the field, Regolith Science summarises research carried out over a 13-year period within the Cooperative Research Centre for Landscape Environments and Mineral Exploration. This book will be a valuable resource for scientists and graduate/postgraduate students in geology, geography and soil science, professionals in the exploration industry and natural resources management. This paperback edition is a reprint of the original hardback published in October 2008.

scholarly journals The history of mining and mineral exploration in Panama: From Pre-Columbian gold mining to modern copper mining

2020 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. A180720
Author(s):  
Stewart D. Redwood
Keyword(s):  
Gold Mining ◽  
Mineral Exploration ◽  
Porphyry Copper ◽  
Copper Deposit ◽  
Gold Deposits ◽  
Stream Sediment ◽  
Gold Mine ◽  
Foreign Companies ◽  
Current Period ◽  
History Of

The history of mining and exploration in Panama is a case study of the evolution of mining in a tropical, island arc environment in the New World from prehistoric to modern times over a period of ~1900 years. Panama has a strong mineral endowment of gold (~984 t), and copper (~32 Mt) resulting in a rich mining heritage. The mining history can be divided into five periods. The first was the pre-Columbian period of gold mining from near the start of the Current Era at ~100 CE to 1501, following the introduced of gold metalwork fully fledged from Colombia. Mining of gold took place from placer and vein deposits in the Veraguas, Coclé, Northern Darien and Darien goldfields, together with copper for alloying. Panama was the first country on the mainland of the Americas to be mined by Europeans during the Spanish colonial period from 1501-1821. The pattern of gold rushes, conquest and settlement can be mapped from Spanish records, starting in Northern Darien then moving west to Panama in 1519 and Nata in 1522. From here, expeditions set out throughout Veraguas over the next century to the Veraguas (Concepción), Southern Veraguas, Coclé and Central Veraguas goldfields. Attention returned to Darien in ~1665 and led to the discovery of the Espíritu Santo de Cana gold mine, the most important gold mine to that date in the Americas. The third period was the Republican period following independence from Spain in 1821 to become part of the Gran Colombia alliance, and the formation of the Republic of Panama in 1903. This period up to ~1942 was characterized by mining of gold veins and placers, and manganese mining from 1871. Gold mining ceased during World War Two. The fourth period was the era of porphyry copper discoveries and systematic, regional geochemical exploration programs from 1956 to 1982, carried out mainly by the United Nations and the Panamanian government, as well as private enterprise. This resulted in the discovery of the giant porphyry copper deposits at Cerro Colorado (1957) and Petaquilla (Cobre Panama, 1968), as well as several other porphyry deposits, epithermal gold deposits and bauxite deposits. The exploration techniques for the discovery of copper were stream sediment and soil sampling, followed rapidly by drilling. The only mine developed in this period was marine black sands for iron ore (1971-1972). The fifth and current period is the exploration and development of modern gold and copper mines since 1985 by national and foreign companies, which started in response to the gold price rise. The main discovery methods for gold, which was not analyzed in the stream sediment surveys, were lithogeochemistry of alteration zones and reexamination of old mines. Gold mines were developed at Remance (1990-1998), Santa Rosa (1995-1999 with restart planned in 2020) and Molejon (2009-2014), and the Cobre Panama copper deposit started production in 2019. The level of exploration in the country is still immature and there is high potential for the discovery of new deposits.

PETROLEUM POTENTIAL OF THE ERINGA TROUGH IN SA AND THE NT

1996 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 322
Author(s):  
E.M. Alexander ◽  
D. Pegum ◽  
P. Tingate ◽  
C.J. Staples ◽  
B.H. Michaelsen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fission Track ◽  
Mineral Exploration ◽  
Source Rocks ◽  
Apatite Fission Track ◽  
Depositional History ◽  
Petroleum Potential ◽  
Frontier Region ◽  
History Of ◽  
Track Analysis ◽  
Cooper Basin

The Eringa Trough occupies an area of over 8,000 km2 in SA and the NT and contains an estimated 1,500 m of Permo-Carboniferous and over 1,000 m of Mesozoic sediments. Early Permian depositional history of this frontier region is similar to that of the Cooper Basin in northeastern SA. The Eringa Trough has limited seismic coverage and sparse petroleum and mineral exploration drillholes are located on the trough margins. Interpretation of 255 km of new seismic and reprocessed data has delineated a number of undrilled prospects.Excellent quality reservoirs are present. Early mature to mature, Permian and Jurassic source rocks occur, including good to excellent Type-II kerogens within an equivalent of the Jurassic Birkhead Formation. Apatite fission track analysis of Permian and Jurassic sediment shows palaeo-temperatures were approximately 30-40°C higher than at present and that cooling occurred within the last 60 Ma. This suggests that Permian and Jurassic sediments in the deeper parts of the Eringa Trough have experienced temperatures suitable for petroleum generation.An integrated evaluation of the Eringa Trough in SA and the NT has resulted in a greater understanding of this frontier area which has the potential for significant commercial petroleum discoveries.

Case history of the exploration of the Grand Isle 95 Field in the Gulf of Mexico

Geophysics ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 48 (7) ◽  
pp. 900-909
Author(s):  
Poh‐Hsi Pan
Keyword(s):  
High Amplitude ◽  
Seismic Exploration ◽  
Careful Examination ◽  
Gas Oil ◽  
Seismic Modeling ◽  
Exploration And Exploitation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Oil Water ◽  
Seismic Sections ◽  
Seismic Lines

Grand Isle 95 Field is located 40 miles offshore Louisiana in 200 ft of water. First stage seismic exploration work was completed by Mobil in 1972. High‐amplitude events were observed on the seismic sections which were believed to be related to the existence of hydrocarbons. Reprocessed seismic lines showed some amplitude change near two questionable flat spots which were thought to be the gas‐oil and oil‐water sand contacts. Careful examination of the original seismic record proved that one of the flat events was caused by noise or distortions under the fault. Subsequent seismic modeling studies led to the success of exploration and exploitation of the field.

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