Proceedings of the KSEEG Conference (대한자원환경지질학회:학술대회논문집)
- 2003.04a
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- Pages.32-36
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- 2003
The Current Situation of Mining and Smelting and the Mineral Policy of Japan
- Shiga, Yoshihide (Department of Economics, Faculty of Law, Economics and Humanities, Kagoshima University)
- Published : 2003.04.01
Abstract
The mining industry of Japan had rapidly grown after the World War II with the economic growth. There existed more than 350 mines all over Japan in the 1960’s. The mines however had been closed one after another under the influence of the world and domestic economic events such as the mining-related pollution in Japan after the middle of the 60’s, the Oil Crisises in 73 and 79 and the Strong Yen in 85 (Fig. 1). (omitted)