Exploitation of minerals either from continental shelves or land areas free of ice has yet to take place in the Antarctic. The paper considers pressures, commercial, strategic, and possible depletion of resources elsewhere that might encourage moves towards exploitation. A brief review is given of ...
Based on data published in literature, this review is a first attempt to put together the natural resources and the sites where the ore minerals have been treated in Albania in order to address issues related to the sustainable development. However, the intervention of the government to minimize...
energy consumption quickly increased. Today, a large part of the world’s energy consumption is maintained by the extraction of fossil fuels (oil, coal and gas). Another non-renewable resource that is exploited by humans are Subsoil minerals such as ...
In this perspective, crude glycerol is a very promising raw material, because it is the costless residual of biodiesel production, consisting of a mixture of glycerol (65–85%, w/w), methanol, soaps, and minerals [12], that may be valorized in lipid production. Thus, cultivation of ...
The increasing demand for minerals and metals by society, together with the depletion of land resources, has generated a peaked interest in marine mineral exploitation. For a global commons such as the oceans, the International Seabed Authority is mandated under the United Nations Convention on the...
On the one hand, there are metagranites, quartz schists and/or ultramylonites (Formation 1). These metamorphic rocks have a schistose appearance and are mainly composed of minerals such as quartz, feldspar and a pelitic matrix. On the other hand, in the same area, there are also ortho...
Western Australia School of Mines: Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering, Curtin University, 26 Dick Perry Avenue, Kensington, Perth 6151, Australia 2 School of Engineering, Edith Cowan University, 270 Joondalup Drive, Joondalup 6027, Australia 3 Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi...