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The book examines three important research questions against the backdrop of increasing private sector participation in the Indian mining industry. The questions are: i) are private sector mining firms more productive than public sector mining firms? ii) do public sector mining firms comply with environmental regulations better than their private counterparts? and iii) do public sector mining firms perform better in social compliance than the private mining firms? Using firm level data from ...

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This book carries out approximate estimates of the costs of implementing ISRU on the Moon and Mars. It is found that no ISRU process on the Moon has much merit. ISRU on Mars can save a great deal of mass, but there is a significant cost in prospecting for resources and validating ISRU concepts. Mars ISRU might have merit, but not enough data are available to be certain. In addition, this book provides a detailed review of various ISRU technologies. This includes three approaches for Mars ISRU based on processing only the atmosphere: solid oxide electrolysis, reverse water gas shift reaction (RWGS), and absorbing water vapor directly from the atmosphere. It is not clear that any of these technologies are viable although the RWGS seems to have the best chance. An approach for combining hydrogen with the atmospheric resource is chemically very viable, but hydrogen is needed on Mars. This can be approached by bringing hydrogen from Earth or obtaining water from near-surface water deposits in the soil. Bringing hydrogen from Earth is problematic, so mining the regolith to obtain water seems to be the only way to go. This will require a sizable campaign to locate and validate useable water resources. Technologies for lunar ISRU are also reviewed, even though none of them provide significant benefits to near-term lunar missions. These include oxygen from lunar regolith, solar wind volatiles from regolith, and extraction of polar ice from permanently shaded craters.

Moon -- International status. --- Natural resources -- Law and legislation. --- Space mining -- Law and legislation. --- Space industrialization --- Astronautics --- Space mining --- Propellants --- Mechanical Engineering --- Business & Economics --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Industries --- Aeronautics Engineering & Astronautics --- Space mining. --- Natural resources. --- Manned space flight. --- Moon --- Mars (Planet) --- Exploration. --- National resources --- Natural resources --- Resources, Natural --- Mining, Space --- Economic aspects --- Engineering. --- Mineral resources. --- Aerospace engineering. --- Astronautics. --- Aerospace Technology and Astronautics. --- Mineral Resources. --- Space sciences --- Aeronautics --- Astrodynamics --- Space flight --- Space vehicles --- Aeronautical engineering --- Engineering --- Deposits, Mineral --- Mineral deposits --- Mineral resources --- Mines and mining --- Mining --- Geology, Economic --- Minerals --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Astronauts --- Resource-based communities --- Resource curse --- Mining engineering --- Moon. --- Red Planet --- Earth (Planet) --- Satellite