Quantifying the Recoverable Resources of Companion Metals: A Preliminary Study of Australian Mineral Resources
The long-term availability of mineral resources is crucial in underpinning human society, technology, and economic activity, and in managing anthropogenic environmental impacts. This is increasingly true for metals that do not generally form the primary product of mines (“host” metals), such as copp...
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| author | Gavin M. Mudd Mohan Yellishetty Barbara K. Reck T. E. Graedel |
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| description | The long-term availability of mineral resources is crucial in underpinning human society, technology, and economic activity, and in managing anthropogenic environmental impacts. This is increasingly true for metals that do not generally form the primary product of mines (“host” metals), such as copper or iron, but are recovered as by-products (or sometimes co-products during the processing of primary ores). For these “companion” metals, it is therefore useful to develop methodologies to estimate the recoverable resource, i.e., the amount that could, if desired, be extracted and put into use over the next several decades. We describe here a methodological approach to estimating the recoverable resources of companion metals in metal ores, using preliminary data for some particular host/companion pairs in Australia as examples. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1730a6bb83ad41a1a440b81f9b03240c2022-12-22T04:03:51ZengMDPI AGResources2079-92762014-12-013465767110.3390/resources3040657resources3040657Quantifying the Recoverable Resources of Companion Metals: A Preliminary Study of Australian Mineral ResourcesGavin M. Mudd0Mohan Yellishetty1Barbara K. Reck2T. E. Graedel3Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, AustraliaMining Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, AustraliaSchool of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USASchool of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USAThe long-term availability of mineral resources is crucial in underpinning human society, technology, and economic activity, and in managing anthropogenic environmental impacts. This is increasingly true for metals that do not generally form the primary product of mines (“host” metals), such as copper or iron, but are recovered as by-products (or sometimes co-products during the processing of primary ores). For these “companion” metals, it is therefore useful to develop methodologies to estimate the recoverable resource, i.e., the amount that could, if desired, be extracted and put into use over the next several decades. We describe here a methodological approach to estimating the recoverable resources of companion metals in metal ores, using preliminary data for some particular host/companion pairs in Australia as examples.http://www.mdpi.com/2079-9276/3/4/657mineral resourcessustainable miningcompanion metalsAustralia |
| spellingShingle | Gavin M. Mudd Mohan Yellishetty Barbara K. Reck T. E. Graedel Quantifying the Recoverable Resources of Companion Metals: A Preliminary Study of Australian Mineral Resources Resources mineral resources sustainable mining companion metals Australia |
| title | Quantifying the Recoverable Resources of Companion Metals: A Preliminary Study of Australian Mineral Resources |
| title_full | Quantifying the Recoverable Resources of Companion Metals: A Preliminary Study of Australian Mineral Resources |
| title_fullStr | Quantifying the Recoverable Resources of Companion Metals: A Preliminary Study of Australian Mineral Resources |
| title_full_unstemmed | Quantifying the Recoverable Resources of Companion Metals: A Preliminary Study of Australian Mineral Resources |
| title_short | Quantifying the Recoverable Resources of Companion Metals: A Preliminary Study of Australian Mineral Resources |
| title_sort | quantifying the recoverable resources of companion metals a preliminary study of australian mineral resources |
| topic | mineral resources sustainable mining companion metals Australia |
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