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Life-of-Resource Sustainability Considerations for Mining

Life-of-Resource Sustainability Considerations for Mining

Autor(en): Damien Giurco, Tim Prior, Leah Mason, Steve Mohr, Gavin Mudd
Journaltitel: Australian Journal of Civil Engineering
Band: 10
Ausgabe: 1
Seiten: 47-56
Publikationsjahr: 2012

Mining in Australia is booming. Notwithstanding, production conditions are progressively transitioning from the mining of cheaper, easily accessible and higher quality ores to lower grade, more remote, complex and expensive ores. Sustainability discussions in the minerals industry have largely sought to improve the social and environmental performance of individual operations, including planning for closure. However, the national implications of a change in the circumstances underpinning the current prosperity of mining are underexplored. This ...