This book highlights the indispensability of minerals the vulnerability of humans and issues
faced by governments around the world regarding the management of natural resources. It
addresses the growing land-ecology-mining conflicts energy security and water policies of
different countries bringing these issues into focus and critically analyzing them. The book
discusses the role of governments regarding the security-centric issues pertaining to
sustainability of mineral supply and the welfare-centric aspects of sustainable development of
mineral resources. The latter includes the current trends for corporate social responsibility
political viability of mining projects industrial ethics human health and human resource
development.The Annexure I is unique: It is a list of 925 familiar consumer products and
processes with the names of the minerals metals and rocks as well as the intermediate
chemicals and alloys that go into the making of that product or process alongside each.
Annexure II is an up-to-date exhaustive list of about 835 minerals metals rocks and
intermediate chemicals and alloys and against each of them is a list of the names of the end
products and processes for which they are used. These two annexures will serve as a day-to-day
reference source for teachers students and professionals concerned with minerals as well as
other interested readers. The book will be useful to any university institution with
undergraduate and post-graduate teaching research facilities and libraries in the field of
geology mining mineral economics planning and natural-resource management.About the
AuthorKaulir Kisor Chatterjee studied Applied Geology at the Indian School of Mines Dhanbad
for his post-graduate and PhD degrees. He served in the Indian Bureau of Mines for over three
decades and retired in early 2004 as Chief Mineral Economist. Post-retirement he has occupied
himself mostly with writing teaching and lecturing in various institutions of repute in India
on the subject of mineral economics. Besides 50 technical papers he has authored eight books.
He has worked in various Government committees and expert groups and was involved in
organization of national mineral inventory UN Framework Classification system of mineral
resources rationalisation of the mineral taxation royalty and mineral legislation framework
in India. He has been examiner and member of selection boards of UPSC India and is also a
recognised guide of the Nagpur University for doctoral research. His resume has been included
in the Marquis Who Is Who of the World and in the 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21 st
Century Cambridge.
