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Essential of Minerals Economics

Summary

The course deals with a summary of activities by which the state influences the search for and use of domestic sources of raw materials, including secondary raw materials, their economical and rational use and acquisition of raw materials abroad in order to ensure the operation of the economy. The course deals with the raw material base of the Czech Republic for mineral deposits. Attention is paid to the process of raw material acquisition and economic evaluation of mineral deposits.

Literature

BULLOCK, Richard L. a Scott MERNITZ, ed. Mineral property evaluation: handbook for feasibility studies and due diligence. Englewood, Colorado: Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration, [2018]. ISBN 978-0-87335-445-5 .
EUROPEAN COMMISSION. EU principles for sustainable raw materials.Luxembourg : Publications Office of the European Union, [2021].ISBN 978-9-27642-145-0 .
EUROPEAN COMMISSION. European innovation partnership on raw materials : annual monitoring report 2020.Luxembourg : Publications Office of the European Union, [2021].ISBN 978-9-27645-212-6 .
RUNGE, Ian Charles. Mining economics and strategy. Littleton: Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, c1998. ISBN 0-87335-165-7.

Advised literature

EUROPEAN COMMISSION. Development of a guidance document on best practices in the extractive waste management plans : circular economy action.Luxembourg : Publications Office of the European Union, [2019].ISBN 978-9-27600-037-2 .
FEČKO, Peter, ed. Mineral raw materials and mining activity of the 21st century: November 25-27, 2003, VŠB-TU Ostrava, Czech Republic. Part I. Ostrava: VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava, Faculty of Mining and Geology, [2003]. ISBN 80-248-0246-5.
FIZAINE, Floriant. Mineral Resources Economy 1 : Context and Issues. 1st ed.Wiley-ISTE, [2021].pp. 272.ISBN 978-1-11985-084-7 .
TILTON, John E. a Juan Ignacio GUZMÁN. Mineral economics and policy. New York: RFF Press Routledge, 2016. ISBN 978-1-317-55877-4 .


Language of instruction čeština, angličtina
Code 545-0183
Abbreviation ZSP
Course title Essential of Minerals Economics
Coordinating department Department of Economics and Control Systems
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Michal Vaněk, Ph.D.