A NEW SUGGESTION TO BUILD A BRIDGE BETWEEN EXPLORATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF MINERAL RESOURCES

To build an environmental friendly mining industry,it is essential to assess the impacts of mineral exploration.From geological view points,traditional economic or exploration geologists should take it into consideration of the environmental problems from different phases of mineral exploration(exploration planning,regional exploration,prospect evaluation and prospect characterization) and use the data for the purpose of exploring mineral resources to solve environmental problems for the mining planning and mining.The authors suggest that: to meet the demand of geological survey in the 21th century,a linkage should be established between mineral resources and environment,environmental issues should be considered from mineral exploration and assessment;although economic or exploration geologists can understand the environmental processes of mineral exploitation well and have some advantages to deal with the problems of geo-environment as compared with other scientists,they should totally renew their view points and knowledge timely,especially on environmental science,biology and epidemic disease.