21世紀に立ち向うわが国鉱業のビヘイビアー

抄録

The modern industrial society, has progressed from the agricultual society in this Century, is going to change to the more systematic society by means of many technical inovation in the 21st Century.
Under these circumstances, the writer would like to discuss the future of the Japanese Mining Industry in this paper. The main items are as follows.
1) The past results and future forecasts of mining industry.
2) The future of the fossil fuels.
a) The relations between fossil fuels and other energies.
b) The expectation for the new utilizations of fuel cell and MHD generation.
c) The utilization of fossil fuel as the resource of hydrocarbon.
d) The development of carbonic industry in future.
3) The use of metals and non-metals as materials in future.
4) Searching for natural rosources.
a) Effective use of domestic resources and the developments of overseas resources.
b) The Ocean exploitation.
5) The means of promoting future enterprises.
a) The rationalizations of enterprises.
b) The integrated industry and value augmentations.
c) The development of large-scale projects and the merging of enterprises.
6) Some plans for technical innovations.
a) The new methods of prospecting and boring.
b) The underground gasification of coal.
c) The underground liquefaction of coal.
d) The leaching techniques.
e) The approachs for the development of offshore oil fields.