2016-2017年の資源探査

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Prices of minerals and energy resources have increased from the winter in 2016, and continued in the past year. However, exploration is not sufficiently active, because the prices are not so high for people working in the field. In spite of low resource prices, some remarkable results have been reported in the explolation and production fields of minerals and energy resources as follows: 1) mineralization of copper (4.59 %) and silver (8 g/t) was gotten in the Cobar superbasin, Australia, 2) an accumulation of oil and gas was found by the exploration well 36/7-4 in the the Cara structure located in the Norwegian North Sea, 3) a deposit of quality oil was discovered by exploration drilling at the onshore Block 10 in Iraq, 4) on May 28, 2017, commercial gas production was commenced from the Layang Field in Block SK10, Malaysia. The geothermal explaration has been carried out actively in reaction to the METI's promotion which started in 2013.