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Terminated in academic year 2022/2023

Mineral Economics

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 541-0262/06
Abbreviation ENS
Course title Mineral Economics
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Geological Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Antonín Kunz, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Introduction to the mineral economics and the basics of terminology
2. Structure of the mineral economics and their interdependence with other activities of the mining industry
3. Exploitation of the mineral deposits and mineral economics, participants of the mineral deposits exploitation
4. Fundamentals of the legislation of the minetral deposits exploitation
5. Goals and strategy of the exploitation of the mineral deposits, forms of the economic assessment mineral deposits
6. Derivation of a economicallly mineable reserves of the mineral deposits
7. Analysis and investment assessment
8. Investment analysis and phases of the mineral deposits exploitation
9. Basic characteristic and goals of the pricing mining company property
10. Mineral markets and their participants and their organization
11. Mineral markets and mineral pricing, influences on supply of the raw materials
12. Fundamental principles of the mineral and energy policy
13. Characteristic of the raw materials policy and energy security of the Czech Republic
14. nternational organizations and the raw materials policy

Literature

Gocht, W.R.-Zantop, H.-Eggert, R.G.: International Mineral Economics. New
York, Berlin, Heidelberg, Spring - Verlag, 1988, 271 p.

Advised literature

Runge I.C.: Mining Economics and Strategy. Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and
Exploration Inc., 1998.