Deep-Sea Mining Resource Potential, Technical and Environmental Considerations /

This comprehensive book contains contributions from specialists who provide a complete status update along with outstanding issues encompassing different topics related to deep-sea mining. Interest in exploration and exploitation of deep-sea minerals is seeing a revival due to diminishing grades and...

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Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Sharma, Rahul (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Part 1 Deep-sea minerals – distribution characteristics and their resource potential
  • Deep-sea mining: current status and future considerations
  • Composition, formation, and occurrence of polymetallic nodules
  • Marine Co-rich Ferromanganese Crust Deposits: Description and Formation, Occurrences and Distribution, Estimated World-wide Resources
  • Seafloor Massive Sulfide deposits: distribution and prospecting
  • Submarine phosphorites: the deposits of the Chatham Rise, New Zealand, off Namibia and Baja California, Mexico : origin, exploration, mining and environmental issues
  • Predictive mapping of the nodule abundance and mineral resource estimation in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone using artificial neural networks and classical geostatistical methods
  • Statistical Properties of Distribution of Manganese Nodules in Indian and Pacific Oceans and Their Applications in Assessing Commonality Levels and in Exploration Planning
  • Assessment of distribution characteristics of polymetallic nodules and their implications on deep-sea mining
  • Part 2 Deep-sea mining technology – concepts and applications
  • Fundamental geotechnical considerations for design of deep-sea mining systems
  • Concepts of deep-sea mining technologies
  • An Application of Ocean Mining Technology - Deep Ocean Water Utilization
  • Part 3 Metallurgical processing and their sustainable development
  • Metallurgical Processing of Polymetallic Ocean Nodules
  • Sustainable processing of deep-sea polymetallic nodules
  • Sustainable Development and its Application to Mine Tailings of Deep Sea Minerals
  • Part 4 Environmental concerns of impact of deep-sea mining
  • Recent Developments in Environmental Impact Assessment with regard to Mining of Deep-Sea Mineral Resources
  • Taxonomic Problems in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) linked to Ocean Mining and Possibility of New Technology Developments
  • Part 5 Management strategy
  • Development of environmental management plan for deep-sea mining
  • The crafting of seabed mining ecosystem-based management.