%0 Journal Article %T MANAGEMENT OF MINERAL RESOURCES, 2009 - 2019 %A FRANCO SEP¨˛LVEDA %A GIOVANNI %J Bolet¨Ēn de Ciencias de la Tierra %D 2009 %I Universidad Nacional de Colombia %X in this work a proposal for the mineral resources having into consideration the economic value of the thermal coal deposits of colombia is being presented. also, a methodological proposal is been carried out to determine an approximate economic value of these types of deposits in the country. this methodological proposal arises from the simulation of three possible scenes (optimistic, normal, and pessimist) for the extraction of national coal deposits, given under different types of environmental conditions, technical and financial, proper of this type of research. %K economic valuation %K colombia %K management %K mineral resources. %U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0120-36302009000100008&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en