Journal of the Korean Society of Mineral and Energy Resources Engineers (한국자원공학회지)

The Korean Society of Mineral and Energy Resources Engineers (한국자원공학회)
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Review of Development of Deep-ses Mineral Resources in Korea

국내 심해저 광물자원 개발 현황

Yoon, Chi-Ho;Park, Yong-Chan;Lee, Dong-Kil;Kwon, Seok-Ki;Sung, Won-Mo
윤치호;박용찬;이동길;권석기;성원모

  • Published : 2005.10.31
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Abstract

Since 1960's, the advanced ocean countries have been already aware of the importance of the mineral resource development in the ocean, which pushed their continuous research development. Recently, they also took great interest in the development of environment-friendly mining system together with the ocean environment researches. Korea now is interested in the ocean development studies for making its way into one of the advanced ocean countries. To do so, Korea is making every effort in its policy and technology research for the deep-sea mineral resources. In the early 1990's, it began deep-sea manganese nodule exploration and registered a mining zone in the C-C area in the East Pacific Ocean in 1994. Furthermore, the exclusive deep-sea mining area of Korea with $7.5 km^{2}$ was acknowledged in August, 2002, which pushed forward the continuous development of mining technology for the commercial production of manganese nodules 3 million tons per year. In 2007, an offshore overall test is scheduled to be performed with the collecting and lifting system merged together, which will verify the pre-developed technologies and will be a cornerstone for the development of dee-sea mining system.

960년대부터 해양 선진국들은 해양광물자원 개발에 대한 중요성을 인식하고 연구개발을 지속적으로 추진해 오고 있으며, 최근에는 해양환경연구에 의한 친환경적 채광시스템 개발에 많은 관심을 가지고 있다. 우리나라도 최근 이에 대한 관심이 높아져 해양 선진국 진입을 목표로 심해저 광물자원 개발을 위한 정책적 및 기술적 노력에 박차를 기울이고 있다. 1990년대 초반부터 심해저 망간단괴의 본격적인 탐사를 시작으로 1994년에 동태평양 C-C 해역에 단독광구를 등록하고 2002년 8월에 $7.5km^{2}$를 배타적 개발광구로 승인받은 우리나라는 2010년까지 심해저 망간단괴의 연간 300만톤 상업생산을 목표로 지속적인 채광기술개발을 추진해오고 있다. 이를 위해 2007년에는 근해역에서 집광시스템과 양광시스템을 통합한 근해역 통합시험을 예정하고 있다. 이는 기 개발된 기술을 검증하고 실해역 채광시스템 개발을 위한 발판이 될 것이다.

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