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This lecture explores the various types of risk that arise in the exploitation of mineral resources and describes ways in which they can be identified, assessed, quantified and managed. The emphasis is on the quantification of risk and on the use of quantitative methods for the visualization of risk.
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Dowd, P. (2002). The Assessment And Analysis Of Financial, Technical And Environmental Risk In Mineral Resource Exploitation. In: Fabbri, A.G., Gaál, G., McCammon, R.B. (eds) Deposit and Geoenvironmental Models for Resource Exploitation and Environmental Security. Nato Science Partnership Subseries: 2 (closed), vol 80. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0303-2_10
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