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Acquiring Iron-Reducing Enrichment Cultures: Environments, Methods and Quality Assessments
Microorganisms, 2023 Lateritic duricrusts cover iron ore deposits and form spatially restricted, unique canga ecosystems endangered by mining. Iron cycling, i.e., the dissolution and subsequent precipitation of iron, is able to restitute canga duricrusts, generating new ...
Aline Figueiredo Cardoso +4 more
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Green Manure as an Alternative for Soil Recovery in a Bauxite Mining Environment in Southeast Brazil
Floresta e Ambiente, 2023 The objective of this study was to evaluate plant cover and dry mass produced by green manures and their influence on the chemical attributes of soil for the ecological restoration of an area around bauxite mine environment in Southeast Brazil.
Wesley da Silva Fonseca +2 more
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The Potential of Iron Ore Tailings as Secondary Deposits of Rare Earths
Applied Sciences, 2019 Rare earths have appeared in the market with new energy and Information Technology and Communications (ITC) applications. While their demand grows exponentially, their production is experiencing a bottleneck given that their deposits are concentrated in ...
Henar Moran-Palacios +3 more
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Social stability risk assessment and economic competitiveness in China
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2022 Social stability risk assessment (SSRA) has become the mainstream policy instrument for assessing potential risks of large-scale development projects across all sectors in China.
Ruilian Zhang +4 more
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Global Projection of Lead-Zinc Supply from Known Resources
Resources, 2018 Lead and zinc are used extensively in the construction and automotive industries, and require sustainable supply. In order to understand the future availability of lead and zinc, we have projected global supplies on a country-by-country basis from a ...
Steve Mohr +4 more
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European Raw Materials Resilience—Turning a Blind Eye
Earth Science, Systems and Society, 2022 Europe’s almost total dependence on foreign suppliers of metals impacts negatively on the continent’s balance of trade, opens the region to potentially damaging supply problems, allows foreign actors to place political demands on European leaders and ...
Valentin R. Troll, Nicholas T. Arndt
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Preconditions for successful implementation of the Finnish standard for sustainable mining
The Extractive Industries and Society, 2020 Mining companies are facing various environmental and social challenges, ranging from ecological concerns to community relations issues. In Finland, mining companies have responded to these challenges by developing a sustainability initiative to increase
E. Ruokonen
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Towards sustainable mining: exploiting raw materials from extractive waste facilities
Sustainability, 2020 The incremental amount of needed Raw Materials (RM) and Critical Raw Materials (CRM) cannot be totally supplied by recycling activities, and mining activities are growing more and more at global level, requiring more modern and efficient technologies ...
G. Dino +4 more
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Electricity Cost Forecasting in the South African Mining Industry: A Gap Analysis
MiningDespite the rapid improvement in the availability and resolution of real-time electricity data, budget development processes in mining have remained relatively unchanged. Currently, there is no standard for the evaluation of mine electricity cost budgets.
Andrea Cronje +3 more
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Mining, 2022 The mining industry faces diverse challenges to maintain sustainable production, particularly regarding critical water and energy supplies. As a significant player in the copper mining industry, Chile has become a global reference.
Jorge Leiva González, Italo Onederra
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