Table of Contents

Preface Lectures: International Trends in Standards and Regulations for Valuation of Mining Industry Properties and Projects ; About a Need for Polish Code for Mineral Asset Valuation; Development of the International Valuation Standards Committee's Best Practice Guidelines for Valuations in the Extractive Industries; Standardized Measure of Discounted Future Net Cash Flows Related to Proved Oil and Gas Reserves and Capitalised Costs of Exploration and Development As Two Ways to Include Oil and Gas Assets' Valuation in Financial Statements; Application of WTP and WT A Categories in Valuation of Natural Resources; Strategy of Development and Value Creation in Mining Industry on Example of Lundin Mining Corporation; Assessing Market Attractiveness of Power Generation Industry Companies for Hard Coal Producers; Conditional and Monte Carlo Simulation -the Tools for Risk Identification in Mining Projects; Inherent Conflict of Individual and Group Rationality in Relations of a Lignite Mine and a Power Plant; Method of Identification of Mineable Lignite Reserves in the Bilateral Monopoly of an Open Pit and a Power Plant; Fuzzy Modelling of an Ultimate Pit; Energy Policy of Poland in the Beginning of 20th Century in the Opinion Polish Society - Results of the Survey; Capacity of an Abandoned Coal Mine; Converted into High Pressure C~ Reservoir; Determination of the Size of the Fracture Zone Around a Road Working Based on the Results of Underground Convergence Measurements and Numerical Modelling; The Knothe Theory in the World Mining; A Mining Software System at Bogdanka S.A. Underground Coal Mine -an Important Implementation of an Integrated Mineral Deposit Management System in the Polish Mining Industry; Maintenance of a Mine Working Behind the Longwall Front; Using Roof Bolting; Power Generation Experience from Abandoned Coal Mines Methane