scholarly journals On the geological and economic assessment of the Lower Amur region (Russia)

2020 ◽  
Vol 192 ◽  
pp. 03013
Author(s):  
Viktor Kryukov ◽  
Irina Kradenykh
Keyword(s):  
Gold Mining ◽  
Construction Materials ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Economic Assessment ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
The Past ◽  
Steady Growth ◽  
Mineral Wealth

The development of regional economy is based on medium and long-term strategies (programs) for economic industrialization. These documents are of a sectoral or integrated nature. Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and Kamchatka Territory have a scientifically substantiated strategy for the development of the mining industry. Despite its absence in Khabarovsk Territory, subsoil use in recent years has shown a steady growth in mining. The main volume of income comes from gold mining mainly in the northern and central parts of the region. Over the past 10 years, the most economically advantageous and geographically accessible minerals have been identified in the region. These include: coal, gold, platinum, tin, construction materials, groundwater. In the future, it is necessary to plan the development of copper-porphyry, alunite and polymetallic fields. The issues of increasing the resource base of liquid and strategic metals, formation of infrastructure, complexity of the use of mineral wealth and rational use of mineral resources remain problematic. A positive solution to problems is possible when developing and implementing an industry strategy. The basis for its formation is the geological and economic assessment of particular territories of the region.

scholarly journals A Post-Implementation Analysis Of The South African Mineral Royalty Regime

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 641
Author(s):  
Pieter Van der Zwan
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Fair Share ◽  
Font Size ◽  
The South ◽  
The Past ◽  
Tax Legislation ◽  
Mineral Wealth

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><p style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; mso-pagination: none;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10pt;">The landscape of the South African mining industry has changed significantly over the past twenty years and has in recent times attracted attention by calls for nationalization of the industry. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the proposed areas to address the concerns resulting in these calls for nationalization has been to consider whether the South African mineral royalty regime can be improved. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The objective of this article is to evaluate whether the South African royalty regime effectively balances the objectives of the stakeholders in the industry and to recommend improvements where this balance may not be achieved. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The analysis performed indicated that the introduction of the royalty regime increased the overall government take from the mining industry significantly and that the competitiveness of the South African mining industry as an investment destination need to be assessed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was further found that the linkage between the royalty formula and the income tax legislation distorts the royalty levied in relation to the mineral resources that are depleted. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is submitted that the regime can be improved by defining a profitability indicator specifically for the purposes of determining mineral royalties. Lastly, it is recommended that measures to improve accountability in respect of the utilization of the royalties collected need to be considered as the lack of such measures may contribute to the perception that the nation does not receive its fair share of the mineral wealth.</span></p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span>

A Study on Ivory Coast with the Impacts of Artisanal Gold Mining on Local Livelihoods and the Mining Industry

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 68-77
Author(s):  
Kouame Joseph Arthur Kouame ◽  
Fu Xing Jiang ◽  
Yu Feng ◽  
Si Tao Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Ivory Coast ◽  
Gold Mining ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Barriers To Entry ◽  
Chemical Contaminants ◽  
Artisanal Mining ◽  
Local Livelihoods ◽  
Artisanal Gold Mining ◽  
Main Activity

In rural regions, mining is an activity that employs many people due to the fact that the barriers to entry are sometime trivial, with very low technology, capital fund and no specialized skills required. Many people including children into artisanal mining in Ivory Coast because they can earn higher incomes in mining than through other traditional activities such as agriculture, which is the main activity in the country. Artisanal mining contribute to reduce the abject poverty and it offers many others opportunities. However, this activity has many negative social impacts. Local people including miners are risking their life everyday due to the unsanitary conditions, prostitution, chemical contaminants, and alcoholism, and also the large degradation of lands. The main objective of this Paper is to understand how artisanal gold mining in the Ivory Coast affects local livelihoods and the environment. Some key recommendations for addressing artisanal mining activities in order to have a good option for sustainable management of mineral resources in the country are proposed.

scholarly journals Innovative methods of extracting the loose gold from technogenic deposits in the Irkutsk region

2018 ◽  
Vol 212 ◽  
pp. 01016
Author(s):  
Elena Golovina ◽  
Anastasia Dykusova ◽  
Maxim Zhizhelev
Keyword(s):  
Mineral Resource ◽  
Gold Mining ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Precious Metals ◽  
Gold Deposits ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Processing Technologies ◽  
Irkutsk Region ◽  
Equipment Modernization ◽  
Production Capacities

In Russia and abroad, the scope of the use of gold has significantly expanded, which undoubtedly affected the level of production. However, despite the fairly high rates of gold mining, the economic situation that has developed in recent years makes the companies look for new innovative placer processing technologies that will allow preserving and increasing the extraction of the precious metals. The search for and exploration of new placer gold deposits requires very considerable financial resources and time, and therefore the proposed project for the extraction of alluvial gold from technogenic deposits is of great importance for the functioning of the mining industry of the Irkutsk region, since it helps to overcome at least two negative trends: firstly, the deterioration of the mineral resource base, and secondly, large losses of gold with dump products (up to 50%) associated with the use of obsolete washing equipment. Modernization of production capacities and processing technologies is not only one of the main factors for increasing competitiveness in the gold mining industry and attracting investors, but will also help increasing the mineral resource base of the Irkutsk region by reassessing technogenic deposits, setting gold technogenic deposits on the balance, development of technologies for technogenic deposits and processing, and involvement of technogenic deposits in the mass processing.

Mine waste reuse and reprocessing: an important step for the implementation of the circular economy in Europe

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Françoise Bodénan ◽  
Yannick Ménard ◽  
Patrick d'Hugues
Keyword(s):  
Circular Economy ◽  
Mine Waste ◽  
Construction Materials ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Mining Waste ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Secondary Resources ◽  
Mineral Fraction ◽  
Long Term Treatment

&lt;p&gt;Whereas there are growing needs for mineral resources (metals for the energy and digital transitions&lt;br&gt;and construction materials), the mining industry must produce them from poorer, more&lt;br&gt;heterogeneous and more complex deposits. Therefore, volumes of mine waste produced (including&lt;br&gt;tailings) are also increasing and add up to waste from mining legacy. For example in Europe (x27): 732&lt;br&gt;Mtons of extractive waste are generated per year and more than 1.2 Btons of legacy waste are stored&lt;br&gt;all over the European territory. The localisation (and potential hazards) are well known and covered&lt;br&gt;by the inventories carried out in EU countries under the Mining Waste Directive.&lt;br&gt;At the same time, Europe is implementing the circular economy approach and put a lot of emphasis&lt;br&gt;on the resource efficiency concept. In this context, reprocessing operation to recover both metals and&lt;br&gt;mineral fraction is studied with the objective of combing waste management (reducing final waste&lt;br&gt;storage and long-term impact) and material production from secondary resources.&lt;br&gt;Numerous industrial experiences of reprocessing of mine waste and tailings exist all over the world to&lt;br&gt;recover metals such as copper, gold or critical raw materials - CRM They concern mainly active mine&lt;br&gt;where both primary and secondary resources are considered in profitable operations; for example in&lt;br&gt;Chile, South Africa, Australia. Mineral fraction recovery is often not considered which still leaves the&lt;br&gt;industry with a high volume of residual minerals to store and manage.&lt;br&gt;In addition, legacy mining waste are potentially available for reprocessing. In this case, numerous&lt;br&gt;mining liabilities issues need to be managed. Some of the European legacy mining waste have residual&lt;br&gt;valuable metals that could be recovered but some of them have very low metal contents. In Europe,&lt;br&gt;classical rehabilitation operations &amp;#8211; usually at the charge of member states and local authorities &amp;#8211; is&lt;br&gt;the priority and concern the reduction of instabilities and impacts to the environment including heap&lt;br&gt;remodelling, covering and water management with long-term treatment. Completing this risk&lt;br&gt;management approach by a circular economy one is a very active R&amp;D subject in EU27.&lt;br&gt;This presentation will give an overview of EU research projects which tackled the legacy mining waste&lt;br&gt;challenge from inventory to process development. Several process flowsheets to recover metals were&lt;br&gt;designed and tested on several case studies with CRM &amp;#8211; REE, Co, W, Sb, etc. Initiatives to reuse mineral&lt;br&gt;fraction are also underway and should be ready for commercialisation in the coming years.&lt;br&gt;Resources efficiency concept and the circular economy implementation starts on mining sites. In order&lt;br&gt;to facilitate the implementation of this approach, the technical solutions will need to be included in&lt;br&gt;innovative global initiatives covering also legal (liability management), environmental (Life Cycle&lt;br&gt;Analysis approaches) and social (acceptance) questions.&lt;/p&gt;

scholarly journals Consolidation of small and medium mining business in the gold mining industry of the Russian Far East

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 04012
Author(s):  
Irina Kradenykh
Keyword(s):  
Gold Mining ◽  
Russian Far East ◽  
Far East ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Mining Companies ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
Placer Deposits ◽  
The Russian Far East

The gold mining industry of the Russian Far East has a great development potential, whose economic growth largely depends on the efficiency of developing a unique mineral resource base. To do this, it is necessary to solve a number of tasks, including the management and organization of economic activities of enterprises engaged in the extraction of placer gold in medium and small volumes. Gold mining companies themselves positively assess the prospects for the development of the industry, despite the preservation of external restrictions imposed by Western countries. At the same time, the current position of the modern gold mining industry is determined not only by the state of the Russian economy, but also by a number of branch features related to the management of gold mining at the enterprise level. At the present time, there are increasing questions about the feasibility of consolidation of small and medium mining enterprises, which will allow them to overcome current trends in the economic development of the industry, by combining their own resources. At the same time, in practice, reverse phenomena are observed, indicating that the industry is segmented and the number of mining companies developing placer deposits is gradually increasing. However, consolidation processes, in the form of integration associations, represent one of the directions of development and effective functioning of Russian gold mining enterprises, therefore they require comprehensive research and remain relevant.

scholarly journals STRATEGIC ASPECTS OF DIVERSIFICATION AND MODERNIZATION IN THE ECONOMY OF SINGLE-INDUSTRY SETTLEMENTS

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-145
Author(s):  
А. Севастьянова ◽  
A. Sevastyanova
Keyword(s):  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Strategic Partnership ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
Single Industry ◽  
Industry Affiliation ◽  
Effective Development

<p>The current research features approaches to solving the problems associated with a decline in the development of old industrial sectors in single-industry towns (monocities, or monocommunities). The target of the study is to show the necessity of strategic approach and interaction of all management levels. Particular attention is paid to resource-dependent communities. Enterprises of mineral resources sector have limits of effective development, associated with gradual depletion of their resource base. Diversification and modernization of the economy of resource-dependent communities are logically linked to a timely achieving of strategic objectives to ensure their long-term sustainable development. Strategic aspects are also important for development planning in the sphere of new raw material deposits. A comprehensive analysis should help avoid the risks of creating new monocommunities with a poor prospect of long-term development. The article includes an analysis of international experience of Germany, Canada, and China. It is shown that a progress in solving the problems of company towns heavily depends on a strategic partnership between the federal, the regional, and the municipal governments, as well as on their collaboration with business. A conclusion is made that a uniform strategy for the development of various single-industry towns does not exist. The choice of the way of the development for each particular monotown is determined<br />by its socio-economic characteristics. Among those, remoteness or proximity to large urban agglomerations, industry affiliation and prospects for the development of the cityforming<br />enterprise, opportunities for economic diversification, investment potential and opportunities for attracting investors are of paramount importance. The process of positive changes, as a rule, is slow and complicated. Thence, it is important to justify the purpose and ways to achieve it. As a rule, extrapolation methods do not work in this case</p>

Strategy of effective development of gold mining enterprises based on business consolidation

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (6) ◽  
pp. 222-238
Author(s):  
Irina Kradenyh
Keyword(s):  
Gold Mining ◽  
Synergistic Effects ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Horizontal Integration ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Graphical Modeling ◽  
Alluvial Gold ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Strategic Solution ◽  
Effective Development

The subject of the article is the search for an effective strategic solution in the framework of sustainable development of gold mining enterprises belonging to small and medium-sized mining businesses. The goal of the study is to analyze the problem and the theoretical rationale for the use of horizontal integration for the category of gold mining enterprises, as well as the development of methodological provisions to assess the effectiveness of this strategy in modern conditions. In the process of writing the article the methods of analysis and synthesis within the system approach, mathematical and graphical modeling of economic processes were used. As a result of the study, the processes of development of the gold mining industry, taking into account the state of the mineral resource base of alluvial gold, are revealed. The role of horizontal integration and the expediency of its application within the enterprises belonging to the small and medium mining business are indicated. A methodology has been developed for evaluating the effectiveness of a horizontally integrated gold mining enterprise, taking into account potential synergistic effects, the possibility of diversifying production. The described approaches, at the project stage, will allow to assess the feasibility and effectiveness of the planned consolidation.

scholarly journals Die ekonomiese impak van belasting op mynwater in Suid-Afrika

2014 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacolien Steyn ◽  
Ewert P.J. Kleynhans
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Supply Side ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
The Past ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
General Equilibrium Modelling

Water pollution by mines is a major problem in South Africa. This study examined the contribution that an additional tax on the consumption of water by the mining industry can provide. In the past, the rising demand for water resources was addressed through supply-side mechanisms. Mines are the biggest polluter of drinking water in South Africa and the question is whether this is still the most appropriate way to address the problem. This study proposes that the authorities should consider an additional tax on mines and investigates the effect it will have on the demand for water, as well as its pollution, and the effect on the country’s economy, various industrial sectors and consumers, and in particular the poorest citizens. The research applied advanced economic general equilibrium modelling in its empirical investigation. The results of the modelling are significant both in the short- and long-term scenarios studied. It was found that an additional tax on the consumption of water by mines will produce the desired results, with little negative consequences for the industry and the country as a whole.

scholarly journals Greenland MINEX News: a new service for the mining industry

1993 ◽  
Vol 159 ◽  
pp. 16-18
Author(s):  
P.R Dawes ◽  
H.H Thomsen
Keyword(s):  
Working Group ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Home Rule ◽  
Political Awareness ◽  
New Strategy ◽  
Working Out

In the last few years there has been increased political awareness of the urgency to ensure the continuing and long-term involvement of the mining industry in Greenland's economy. Formalisation of this came in 1990 when an ad hoc working group was convened by the Danish Ministry of Energy and the Chairman of the Greenland Home Rule Authority with the purpose of working out a draft for a new strategy for exploration and utilisation of mineral resources in Greenland. The report containing specific recommendations was released the same year, the text being made available in Danish, English and Greenlandic (MRA, 1990).

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