INTEGRATIVE ASSESSMENT OF MINERAL RESOURCES

Mineral resources assessment is closely related to geologic exploration.Since 1960s,the governments of countries and regions of the world have been concerned for the assessment of mineral resources.In recent years,the focus of the assessment in China has been shifted from an economically static evaluation during exploration to the synthesized dynamic evaluation for exploration,development and markets as a whole.Geographic information system (GIS) is broadly applied in the mineral resources assessment.The integrative assessment of mineral resources is a dynamic and synthetic one in a global scale,with the functions of prediction and diagnosis.