Inventory of Mineral Deposits

The first descriptions of Antarctic mineral resources by Chalmers (1957), Mueller (1964), Stewart (1964), McLeod (1965), Potter (1969), and Smith (1972) was followed by the publication of a comprehensive list of Antarctic mineral deposits by Wright and Williams (1974). At about the same time, Goodell et al. (1971) 

The radar-echo surveys of the Antarctic ice sheet by Drewry (1975) provided information about the sub-ice topography but did not detect mineral deposits. More recently, Behrendt et al. (1980) combined the radar-echo sounding technique of Drewry (1975) with an airborne magnetometer survey which revealed that a laige part of the Dufek intrusion in the Pensacola Mountains is covered by the East Antarctic ice sheet. The enlargement of the area of this intrusion increased the amount of potential ore of iron, titanium, and vanadium in this differentiated body of gabbro, pyroxenite, and anorthosite. 

Prior to the adoption in 1991 of the Environmental Protocol, which prohibits the search for mineral deposits and their exploitation, a large number of papers were published about metallic mineral deposits in aU parts of Antarctica and about the occurrence of oil and gas off-shore. These publications are listed in Appendix 11.7.1 under the following headings  

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