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The Environmental sustainability of mining in Australia: key mega-trends and looming constraints

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  1. Gholami, Alireza & Tokac, Batur & Zhang, Qian, 2024. "Knowledge synthesis on the mine life cycle and the mining value chain to address climate change," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 95(C).
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  5. Endl, Andreas & Tost, Michael & Hitch, Michael & Moser, Peter & Feiel, Susanne, 2021. "Europe's mining innovation trends and their contribution to the sustainable development goals: Blind spots and strong points," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 74(C).
  6. Ma, Siqi & Wang, Canghong & Liu, Jiaze & Zhu, Liang & Jhonson, Andrew, 2024. "Towards green extraction: Assessing the social and economic progress and challenges of green mining in China for policy formulation," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 96(C).
  7. Larona S. Teseletso & Tsuyoshi Adachi, 2023. "Future availability of mineral resources: ultimate reserves and total material requirement," Mineral Economics, Springer;Raw Materials Group (RMG);Luleå University of Technology, vol. 36(2), pages 189-206, June.
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  28. Tuusjärvi, Mari, 2013. "Tracking changes in the global impacts of metal concentrate acquisition for the metals industry in Finland," Resources, Conservation & Recycling, Elsevier, vol. 76(C), pages 12-20.
  29. H. C. S. Subasinghe & Amila Sandaruwan Ratnayake & K. A. G. Sameera, 2021. "State-of-the-art and perspectives in the heavy mineral industry of Sri Lanka," Mineral Economics, Springer;Raw Materials Group (RMG);Luleå University of Technology, vol. 34(3), pages 427-439, October.
  30. Mardi Dungey & Renee Fry-McKibbin & Verity Linehan, 2014. "Chinese resource demand and the natural resource supplier," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 46(2), pages 167-178, January.
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  33. Michael Priester & Magnus Ericsson & Peter Dolega & Olof Löf, 2019. "Mineral grades: an important indicator for environmental impact of mineral exploitation," Mineral Economics, Springer;Raw Materials Group (RMG);Luleå University of Technology, vol. 32(1), pages 49-73, April.
  34. Attari, Mahdi Yousefi Nejad & Torkayesh, Ali Ebadi, 2018. "Developing benders decomposition algorithm for a green supply chain network of mine industry: Case of Iranian mine industry," Operations Research Perspectives, Elsevier, vol. 5(C), pages 371-382.
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  36. Carmelo Pinedo-Álvarez & Karla Ozuki Chacón-Chumacero & Alfredo Pinedo-Álvarez & Martín Martínez-Salvador & Marusia Rentería-Villalobos & Eduardo Santellano-Estrada & Sandra Rodríguez-Piñeros, 2017. "Using Social, Economic and Land-Use Indices to Build a Local Sustainability Index in a Mining Region of the Sierra Tarahumara, Mexico," Resources, MDPI, vol. 6(3), pages 1-15, August.
  37. Antonio Valero & Alicia Valero, 2015. "Thermodynamic Rarity and the Loss of Mineral Wealth," Energies, MDPI, vol. 8(2), pages 1-16, January.
  38. Harald Ulrik Sverdrup & Anna Hulda Olafsdottir, 2020. "Conceptualization and parameterization of the market price mechanism in the WORLD6 model for metals, materials, and fossil fuels," Mineral Economics, Springer;Raw Materials Group (RMG);Luleå University of Technology, vol. 33(3), pages 285-310, October.
  39. Fizaine, Florian & Court, Victor, 2015. "Renewable electricity producing technologies and metal depletion: A sensitivity analysis using the EROI," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 110(C), pages 106-118.
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  41. Cameron Perks & Gavin Mudd, 2021. "A detailed assessment of global Zr and Ti production," Mineral Economics, Springer;Raw Materials Group (RMG);Luleå University of Technology, vol. 34(3), pages 345-370, October.
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  43. Fuisz-Kehrbach, Sonja-Katrin, 2015. "A three-dimensional framework to explore corporate sustainability activities in the mining industry: Current status and challenges ahead," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 46(P1), pages 101-115.
  44. Fizaine, Florian, 2020. "The economics of recycling rate: New insights from waste electrical and electronic equipment," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 67(C).
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