Conclusion

فصل «Conclusion» از کتاب «Copper Empire» بر «معدن‌کاری مس» در حوزه «زمین‌شناسی، اکتشاف و معدن‌کاری مس» تمرکز دارد. مباحث اصلی آن شامل هدف‌گذاری اکتشاف و مدل کانسار است. این فصل برای تفسیر کانسار، هدف‌گذاری اکتشاف، ارزیابی ذخیره و تصمیم‌گیری زمین‌شناسی کاربرد دارد و ارتباط میان نظریه، انتخاب روش، شاخص‌های عملکرد و محدودیت‌های صنعتی را روشن می‌کند.

The importance of the Copperbelt to the British economy, and, indeed to the wider Sterling Area, between the early 1930s and at least the early 1950s seems clear. By the time decolonisation in Britain's Central African territories became a serious proposition, the immediate significance of Northern Rhodesian copper to Britain had, arguably, declined, as was true of many colonial commodities, so prized during and immediately after the Second World War. Although policy-makers in London voiced their concerns about the security of British and associated interests in Northern Rhodesia after independence, their concern was possibly framed as much in terms of denying potentially hostile powers access to the region's mineral wealth as in terms of safeguarding Britain's own considerable stake.