全球探矿格局巨变的90年代

THE NINETIES AS AGE OF CHANGE IN GLOBAL EXPLORATION PATTERNS

全球探矿格局进入９０年代发生了极大的变化。由于发达国家“勘探过度”和日益重视采矿对环境的破坏，探矿资金急剧减少，而日益重视选择最佳回收技术。同时，世界对矿产资源的需求却日益增长，要求发现更多的矿产，而第三世界各国拥有丰富的矿产资源并且是勘探程度很低的国家，这使国际探矿资金从发达国家流向拉丁美洲和非州。为提高探矿效果，要求应用矿床学能更好地为探矿服务，而探矿事业的发展将会获得许多新的资料，从而更好地认识矿床的形成，促进矿床学的进展。

The last several years have seen dramatic changes in mineral exploration in the world The shift of exploration efforts and funds away from “highly developed countries ” can be mainly attributed to “over-exploration” and unfavourable public opinion resulting at least partly from an increased environmental awareness However, the world's increasing population with its justified demands alone requires the discovery and development of new mineral deposits to replace exhaused ones and thus poses as serious challenge to future minerals supply Meanwhile, the third world counties,especialy, African and Latin American regions, are not only rich in mineral resources but also weakly explored, attracting a grent amount of exploration expenditure There is a high and growing demand for further practical ore deposit research which can be applied to day to day exploration The acquisition of new data and industrial funding of practical research will lead to a better understanding of the formation of ore deposits and bring about a great advance in study of mineral deposits