• Proceedings of the KSEEG Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.209-212
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• 2003

한국의 금속광산은 일제시대에 금광산을 중심으로 본격적으로 개발되어 1943년 산금령시에 1,522개 광산이 가행되었다. 최근까지 1990개 광산이 개발된 것으로 알려지고 있으며 2002년 말 현재 7개 광산만이 가행되었다. 1960년대까지 국내 광산은 금, 은 동, 연아연, 철, 중석 등을 중심으로 활발히 가행되어 주요 외화 획득원으로 중요한 위치를 차지하였다. 그 이후 산업발전에 따라 수요는 증가세를 보인 반면 가행광산과 생산량은 매년 감소하여 최근 금속광물자원 자급도는 0.21%로 미미한 수준이며 수요의 대부분을 해외에 의존하고 있다. (중략)

• Economic and Environmental Geology
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.345-357
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• 2008

Korea has been one of the top ranked countries in the per capita and total consumption of Cu, Zn, Pb, and Ni since economic development based on manufacturing industries. The current instability of mineral demand and supply in Korea is likely to continue or exacerbate in accordance with economic growth in developing countries such as BRICs. Korea needs to increase the self-development portion of strategic mineral resources including Cu, Zn, Pb, and Ni. Our analysis of mineral demand and supply data predicts a long-run instability of supply and demand for main minerals used in the Korean manufacturing industries, and suggests a long range government policy for stable supply of core mineral resources.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.3-12
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• 2010

Countries which have a lot of metal resources are weaponizing metal resources such as supply limitation, high price sale. It's necessary for us to establish the countermeasure for recycling of used metal resources on a government basis. Ministry of Environment has established and announced the project for finding and reuse the hidden metal resources as pan-government department pass the Cabinet meeting at September 22, 2009. This countermeasure, 10 years project, is classified into 2 steps. Aim of this project is advance of the recycling technology and industry, achievement of recycling rate, 75%, improvement in adverse balance of trade, 1.25 billion US$.