Complex orebodies and future global metal supply: An introduction

Éléonore Lèbre, John R. Owen, Deanna Kemp and Rick K. Valenta

Resources Policy, 2022, vol. 77, issue C

Abstract: This special issue aims to create a space for rethinking current approaches to “complex orebodies”. Our introductory paper surveys recent developments in the field and identifies a range of challenges that are affecting our collective ability to engage the complex systems associated with future global metal supply. Interdisciplinary mining research remains in its infancy, with single-discipline, technical studies continuing to dominate. Social and environmental factors that lie “beyond the fence” are too often over-simplified and overlooked in resource characterisation and extractive industries. In this special issue, we profile developments in the field and engage the challenges of working in inter-disciplinary, boundary-spanning research in mining. Our paper introduces the special issue, and invites contributing authors to critically engage the conditions and prospects that lie ahead.

Keywords: Mining; Mineral resources; Industrial ecology; Supply risk; ESG; Sustainable development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2022.102696

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