Placer Mineral Mining: Methodology and Economic Analysis

G. Victor Rajamanickam is Professor of Disaster Management, SASTRA, Deemed University, Thanjavur. He was employed first at the National Institute of Oceanography and then in Tamil University as Professor and Head, Department of Earth Science and Industries. He is one of the pioneering geologists in India in the field of coastal studies and marine mineral exploration. He has published more than 150 research articles. He led the country’s first historical eruise for manganese nodule exploration in the Central Indian Ocean Basic. He had been the visiting Professor in St. Andrews University, Scotland and R.W. Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany. He has completed 14 major research projectssupported by DST, DOD, CSIR, INSA and Doen. He has authored/edited more than 10 books, particularly Handbook of Placer Mineral Deports and co-edited with Prof. Dr. Michael J. Tooley, Quaternary Sea-level Variation, Shoreline Displacement and Coastal Environment.