1984年8月,第二十七届国际地质学代表大会在莫斯科举行。和往常一样,世界各国地质学家四年一度所讨论的中心议题是矿物原料的资源问题。大约在半个世纪以前(1937年),曾经在莫斯科举行了第十七届国际地质学代表大会。本世纪下半叶以来,随着矿物资源的大规模开采和需求量的增加,能源、金属矿产和其他各种矿物资源的供需矛盾日益加剧。从旧石器时代到当代在人类文明的整个历史长河中,硅石、铜、金、锡、铁和其他金属矿产使用了成千上万年,后来,煤、石油、可燃气体、铀和其他天然矿物资源也具有举足 August 1984, the twenty-seventh International Geological Congress held in Moscow. As always, the central issue discussed by the world’s geologists for four years is the resource of mineral raw materials. About a half century ago (1937), the seventeenth International Congress of Geology was held in Moscow. Since the second half of this century, with the large-scale mining of mineral resources and increasing demand, the contradiction between supply and demand of energy, metal minerals and other various mineral resources has been aggravated. From Paleolithic to contemporary throughout the long history of human civilization, silica, copper, gold, tin, iron and other metal minerals have been used for thousands of years and later coal, petroleum, combustible gases, uranium and other natural minerals Resources are also sufficient