The special issue entitled “Developments in Quantitative Assessment and Modeling of Mineral Resource Potential” is composed 17 papers that cover a diverse range approaches to mineral resource assessment, including mainly multivariate statistical analysis, fractal multifractal modeling, geostatistical machine learning, mathematical morphology 3D exploration. This introductory article first provi...

In 2008-09, the mining sales value in Western Australia (WA) was AUD71.3 billion [1]. The resource industry continues to generate significant infrastructure investment and supply expansion developments in remote and arid regions of the state. The sector is also a major driver of liquid fuel demand growth, and currently represents approximately 40% of total transport fuel use, and around 60% (mo...

To the article “Utilization of Mineral Waste: A Method for Expanding Resource Base a Mining and Smelting Company,” by J. Rybak, S. M. Gorbatyuk, K. Ch. Bujanovna-Syuryun, A. Khairutdinov, Yu. Tyulyaeva, P. Makarov, Vol. 64, Nos. 9-10, pp. 851–861, January, 2021

Despite rapidly-expanding academic and policy interest in the links between natural resource wealth development failures – commonly referred to as ‘resource curse’ little attention has been devoted psychology behind phenomenon. Rent-seeking excessive reliance on mineral revenues can be attributed largely social psychology. Mineral booms (whether due discovery of reserves or drastic rise commodi...

J-FOR Journal of Science & Technology for Forest Products and Processes: VOL.1, NO.2, 2011 38 To a great extent, the design of large forest products facilities has been based on the assumptions of stable future wood costs and species mix. Mill design and wood supply are dealt with as separate, although connected, calculations. This is essentially an agricultural model in which supply is availab...