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The Recent Progress China Has Made in Green Mine Construction, Part I: Mining Groundwater Pollution and Sustainable Mining. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 With the development of technology, the concepts of “green” and “sustainable” have gradually been popularized in all walks of life. With the continuous development of the world mining industry, the efficiency of resource development in various countries ...
Li S, Yu L, Jiang W, Yu H, Wang X.
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Toward a more sustainable mining future with electrokinetic in situ leaching. [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2021 The application of electric fields facilitates in situ extraction of metals from intact ore bodies of low hydraulic conductivity. Metals are currently almost exclusively extracted from their ore via physical excavation.
Martens E +9 more
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Mining Law: In Search of Sustainable Mining [PDF]
Sustainability, 2021 Mining is an activity that generates inputs to different production chains, making it essential for any country’s development. However, it causes environmental, economic, and social impacts that must be considered. The Mining Law provides guidelines, through laws and regulations, so the activity can be carried out in an environmentally, economically ...
Nathalie Barbosa Reis Monteiro +3 more
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Dialectical Anthropology, 2009 The mining industry moves more earth than any other human endeavor. Yet mining companies regularly claim to practice sustainable mining. Progressive redefinition of the term sustainability has emptied out the concept of its original reference to the environment.
S. Kirsch
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RENEWABLE ENERGY FOR SUSTAINABLE MINING
International Journal for Quality Research, 2020 Mining industry is known for requiring energy-intensive processes with significant impacts on the greenhouse gas emissions, which represents a major concern to both economic competitiveness of the sector and climate change. Low carbon sustainable technologies as renewable energy sources (RES) are emerging as key opportunities to sustainable mining in ...
Alves, Wellington +3 more
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Nature-Inspired Solutions for Sustainable Mining: Applications of NIAs, Swarm Robotics, and Other Biomimicry-Based Technologies [PDF]
BiomimeticsEnvironmental challenges, high safety risks and operational inefficiencies are some of the issues facing the mining sector. The paper offers an integrated viewpoint to address these issues by combining swarm robotics, nature-inspired algorithms (NIAs ...
Joven Tan +3 more
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Sustainability, 2023 In the era of digitalization, many technologies are evolving, namely, the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence (IA), and digital twin (DT) which has gained significant traction in a variety of sectors, including ...
Nabil El Bazi +6 more
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Seawater desalination concentrate—a new frontier for sustainable mining of valuable minerals
npj Clean Water, 2022 The ocean has often been announced as a sustainable source of important materials for civilization. Application of the same extraction processes to desalination concentrate, rather than to unconcentrated seawater, will necessarily be more energetically ...
B. A. Sharkh +7 more
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Energies, 2022 The goal of carbon neutrality is an extensive and profound economic and social change, which will have far-reaching impacts on industrial structure, energy structure, and social consumption structure.
Bing Wang +4 more
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