The period from middle 2014 to early 2015 will be surely remembered by the rapid drop of metal and oil prices. Many remarkable results have been reported, however, in the explolarion and production fields of minerals and energy resources as follows: 1) Japan has received copper concentrates from the Caserones mine and the Sierra Gorda mine, Chile 2) production of lithium caobonate has been started at the Olaroz Lake in Algentina, 3) oil was found at a structure in the Barents Sea, a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, following to the discovery at two fields from 2013 to 2014, 4) oil and gas production has been started by several oil fields in Norway, Abu Dhabi, Australia and USA, and 5) a coal mine has opened at Caval Ridge, Australia.
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