• Proceedings of the KSEEG Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.349-351
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• 2002

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.231-235
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• 1993

광석으로부터 생산된 금속의 양은 문명이 시작되고 부터 1750년대까지 전세계에서 약 2500만ton정도가 생산되었다고 추정되고 있다. 그러나 Fig. 1에서 보이는 것처럼 1980년대에는 그 생산량이 1년 간에 약 5억8천만ton이 되었고, 실제로 10년 간에 약 58억ton이 소비되기에 이르렀다. 그러나 금속자원은 무한히 있는 것이 아니고, 채굴기술에도 한계가 있기 때문에 머지않아 금속자원은 고갈해 버릴 것이다. 금속자원이 앞으로 어느 정도 기간까지 채굴이 가능할까 하는 것은 납이 22년, 아연이 41년, 구리가 53년, 철, 알루미늄이 230년 정도라고 추정되고 있다. 새로운 거대한 광맥이라도 발견된다면 이런 DATA는 다소 바뀔 수도 있겠으나, 앞으로 발전도상국들의 적극적인 경제활동으로 이러한 금속자원은 더욱 많이 사용될 것이며, 따라서 이와 같은 예상은 더욱 단축될 것이다.(중략)

• Proceedings of the KSEEG Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.201-208
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• 2003

지각내의 한 장소에 농집되어 나타나는 정도가 희소(稀少)한 원소 또는 금속을 총칭하여 희유금속(稀有金屬) 이라고 하며, 산업용으로만 이용되어 온 희유금속은 천연에서의 산출부족으로 뒤늦게 발견되었고, 일반 수요의 결핍, 추출과정의 어려움 등의 이유로 “희유원소” 라는 용어는 시대적으로 채택된 하나의 개념으로, 20세기초에 들어와서야 비로소 산업의 필요성이 나타나기 시작하였다. (중략)

• 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)

• Proceedings of the KSEEG Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.101-101
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• 2000

• Economic and Environmental Geology
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• v.41 no.6
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• pp.773-795
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• 2008

The major import minerals of South Korea are copper ore, lead-zinc ore, iron ore, manganese ore and molybdenum ore. Oversea resources development of South Korea have 92 projects in 14 nations of Asia, 29 projects in 10 nations of America and Europe, and 14 projects in 9 nations of Middle Asia and Africa. But, most projects of them are found in Australia, China, Mongolia and Indonesia. The most projects of the Australia, China and Indonesia are interested in coal and a little projects of them have manganese, iron, lead-zinc, nickel, copper, gold, molybdenum, rare earth elements and uranium. The most projects of the Mongolia are interested in gold and rare earth elements. Representative ore deposits models of metal resources are Orogenic lode deposits, Volcanogenic massive sulphide deposits, Porphyry deposits, Sedimentary exhalative deposits, Mississippi valley type deposits, Iron oxide copper-gold deposits and Magmatic nickel-copper-platinum group element deposits based on global distribution, reverses and grades of their deposits models. If oversea mineral resources will be examined the mineral reserves, mineral mine production and ore deposits models of nations and then survey and investigate of mineral resources, we may be maintained ore body of high grade at survey area and decrease the investment risk.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.35 no.7
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• pp.464-471
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• 2013

In this study, the resource efficiency and future metal resource requirement in photovoltaic (PV) production system were evaluated by using material balance data and life cycle assesment (LCA) method. As a result, in the resource efficiency of ferrous and non-ferrous metal, lead and tin had higher resource efficiency than other materials in all PV systems (SC-Si, MC-Si, CI(G)S, CdTe). In the resource efficiency of rare metals, gallium and rhenium in silicon system and rhenium and rhodium in thin-film system ranked as the first and second high resource efficiency. In case of rare earth metal, gadolinium and samarium took higher resource efficiency. The results of the future metal resource requirement in PV systems showed that 2,545,670 ton of aluminium, 92,069 ton of zinc, 22,044 ton of copper, 1,695 ton of tin and 31 ton of nickel will be needed by 2030 in South Korea, except resource recycling supplement.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.73-80
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• 2013

Marine mineral resources are classified into submarine and seawater mineral resources. In seawater, huge amounts of useful minerals, such as uranium, lithium, magnesium, aluminum, zinc, iron, silver, copper, vanadium, nickel, titanium and cobalt are present. If the rare metals recovery technology from seawater is developed, the commercialization of the precess will be possible. For the 21st century, countries rich in resoures tend to weaponize the resources, according to the depletion of reserves and quality degradation of metal resources in the land. Therefore, Korea that relies on imports for most of the metal resources, should focus on the research and development of the rare metals recovery technology from seawater by using the geographical characteristics of the country that is on three sea-sides.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.68-76
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• 2019

It is very necessary for the metal recycling industries and the researchers to understand the current status of demand and supply of non-ferrous metals and their scraps. Domestic demand and supply of non-ferrous metals and their scraps have been surveyed and reported on the journal of the Korean Institute of Resources Recycling since ten years before. However, it was confined to six major non-ferrous metals such as copper, aluminum, zinc, lead, nickel and magnesium because there are so many kind of non-ferrous metals. In this article also, demand and supply of these non-ferrous metals in addition tin during recent five years (2014 ~ 2018) in Korean markets were reviewed, and their recycling ratio of scraps were briefly estimated. The statistical data were mainly cited from the data issued by Korea Customs Service (KCS) and Korea Non-Ferrous Metal Association, and some fragmental published review articles from magazines and other technical reports.

• 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$.