Showing papers in "Resources Policy in 1993"

TL;DR: The negative symbiosis between the mining and other tradable sectors which mutes both the rate and efficiency of economic growth can subvert both sustainability goals as mentioned in this paper, and sustainable development requires that consumption by present generations should not be at the expense of future generations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply this technique to a copper project comprising mining, leaching and electrowinning processes, which shows the flexibility to modify the cut off grade strategy each time copper prices change unexpectedly, following an intertemporal cut-off grade optimizing model.

TL;DR: The authors examined both time-series and multiple regression models and compared the power of each of these models from both a statistical and economic viewpoint, and found that the time series model is much superior to the multiple regression model.

TL;DR: This article examined whether some elements of Japan's resource acquisition strategies might have caused price and other distortions of market behavior in the Pacific metallurgical coal trade, which is the primary energy input for blast furnace iron making.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors construct a hypothetical grade and recoverability weighted manganese nodule price from the turn of the century forward and examine its behaviour over time, and employ four techniques to make future predictions about the commercial prospects for deep seabed mining.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that sustainable development in mining can be achieved only through continuous exploration, technological innovation, and environmental rehabilitation, and that increased investment in these activities might cause mineral prices to rise and thus reverse the long-term trend of declining and stagnating mineral prices.

TL;DR: The Chinese steel industry achieved even growth in the 1980s and China is now the world's fourth largest steel producing country as mentioned in this paper, and two factors that have played important roles in this development of the Chinese steel Industry are the reform of the system or the strengthening of enterprise autonomy accompanying market reform, and the introduction of advanced technology from Western countries as a continuing policy since the 1970s.

TL;DR: In this paper, a simple cross-section model of steel intensity of use in less developed countries was developed, based on the assumption that the inverted U-shaped intensity curve is shifting downward over time as a result of steel saving new technology, material substitution, and other time related factors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the identified pattern of state enterprise behaviour accentuates market cycles and volatility in the copper industry and that governments use the firms under their control as a macroeconomic tool to adjust balance of payments.

TL;DR: In this paper, the potential impact of further mineral processing activities on industry linkages and growth prospects for copper in Zambia and for phosphates in Morocco is examined, and a modified static input-output framework is presented, suitable for the analysis of processing activities.

TL;DR: In this article, a model of imperfect competition is presented and is used to estimate the impact of changes in the yen/dollar exchange rate and other factors on US and Japanese steel prices.

TL;DR: This paper provides examples of mining companies which are successfully learning, and provides a structure and illustrations for active learning of organizational learning.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of strategic considerations on the choice of work program in such licensing systems was modeled and it was found that competition between bidders results in a level of capital investment which exceeds the profit maximizing allocation.

TL;DR: In this article, the mineral aggregate market of the Eastern USA is quantitatively modelled and the interaction of its components measured and the model developed is used to simulate different situations with its outputs illustrating its versatility and possibilities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors find that debt service obligation is an important determinant of export supply of metals and minerals for some highly indebted Latin American countries, and that the export supply from these countries increased during the last two decades, to meet rising debt service payments in the face of deteriorating export prices.

TL;DR: This paper reviewed the literature on managing mineral exploration and on two other business activities characterized by long lead times and uncertain rewards: oil and gas exploration and industrial research and development, and identified those characteristics of the successful few.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of European natural gas supply costs and find a fairly high degree of divergence with a ratio of the average high cost estimate to the average low cost estimate averaging almost 2.44.

TL;DR: By the year 2000 most world mining production will be controlled by private enterprises with only a small proportion of output coming from state-owned mining properties as mentioned in this paper, and the rate of increase will be greater in the developing countries than in the industrialized nations.

TL;DR: In this context, Codelco's strategy aims at improving its competitiveness while maintaining and increasing its output level, which will support a more cooperative long-term development of the industry as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The Carajas iron ore project in Brazil is a recent example as mentioned in this paper, which depressed the reference price level for iron ore in the late 1980s and thus brought about both permanent changes to that commodity market structure and revenue losses to other iron ore producers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the financial performance of publicly listed mineral and mining companies over the past 20 years and found that the mining industry underwent a substantial change in the late 1980s by taking on large amounts of debt, which could indicate either an industry poised for expansion and modernization or an industry struggling to keep afloat after poor financial performance.

TL;DR: In this article, primary copper is used to exemplify the problems involved in measuring or even properly identifying the specific issues determining fair or unfair trade advantage, and resources, labour and capital, as well as transport, infrastructure and processing, are discussed in terms of contributions to normal competitive advantage, level trade.

TL;DR: In this paper, a model of government budgetary allocations to energy is developed and the main conclusion reached in the paper is that Pakistani authorities must continue to actively encourage private sector power projects.