Management of Mineral Resources : Creating Value in the Mining Business

✍ Scribed by Juan P Camus

Publisher: SME
Year: 2002
Tongue: English
Leaves: 120
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The mining industry's strategy for coping with low profitability has focused primarily on controlling production costs. Despite mechanization, automation, and other technical improvements, the aggregate profitability of mining still falls far short of that realized by most other industries. Author Juan Camus contends that what is required is not additional technical knowledge, but rather sound management practices Read more...

Content: Preliminaries; Contents; CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 2 THE CONCEPT OF MANAGEMENT; CHAPTER 3 THE ECONOMICS OF MINING; CHAPTER 4 THE MINING STRATEGY; CHAPTER 5 ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN; CHAPTER 6 CHALLENGES TO THE MINING INDUSTRY; REFERENCES; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR.
Abstract: The mining industry's strategy for coping with low profitability has focused primarily on controlling production costs. Despite mechanization, automation, and other technical improvements, the aggregate profitability of mining still falls far short of that realized by most other industries. Author Juan Camus contends that what is required is not additional technical knowledge, but rather sound management practices that utilize the existing knowledge base more productively. Management of Mineral Resources explores mining managementthe process of generating plans and supervising their implement

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