Sustainable Minerals Institute – The Mineral Governance Podcast

13th Oct 2020 Created to accompany the United Nations Environment Assembly resolution on Mineral Resource Governance, Professor Daniel Franks from The University of Queensland's Sustainable Minerals Institute discusses the big issues facing minerals and sustainability with special guests.

Mineral Supply Risk

US Geological Survey Releases 2022 List of Critical Minerals

Which mineral supply chains will be most under threat in the near future?

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Demand Drivers

Cobalt and Nickel for a Battery-Powered Future

Why won't current mining practices be enough to meet our green energy needs?

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Mineral Supply Risk

The Sheila Khama Extractives Podcast

16th Jul 2021

A fascinating series on artisanal small scale mining, featuring guests from a broad range of relevant fields

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Circular Economy

Comparing the costs and benefits of virgin and urban mining

Urban mining through a circular economy has emerged as a promising option for securing copper and aluminum resources.

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Mineral Supply Risk

SCMP: China-backed projects in Africa targeted by environmental groups

A recent article in the South China Morning Post highlights how environmental groups have started targeting some Chinese-backed projects in Africa in a [...]

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Mineral Supply Risk

The New Yorker: The Dark Side of Congo’s Cobalt Rush

In an extensive and troubling read, The New Yorker has explored in detail the ‘dark side’ of the Congo’s cobalt rush, which has [...]

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Mineral Supply Risk

IGF Guidance for Governments: Environmental Management and Mining Governance

The key issues, benchmarks, and standards in four main areas of environmental management in mining

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Mining Our Green Future

The green energy revolution is heavily reliant on raw materials, such as cobalt and lithium, which are currently mainly sourced by mining. We [...]

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Mineral Supply Risk

Digital mining in the age of social awareness

Exploring the mining industry's new normal

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Mineral Supply Risk

The U.S. is worried about its critical minerals supply chains – essential for electric vehicles, wind power and the nation’s defense

By Jordy Lee, Payne Institute Program Manager, Colorado School of Mines and Morgan Bazilian, Professor of Public Policy and Director, Payne Institute, Colorado [...]

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Demand Drivers

As cobalt demand booms, companies must do more to protect Congolese miners

By Dorothee Baumann-Pauly, Adjunct Professor and Director of the Geneva Center for Business and Human Rights, Université de Genève and Serra Cremer Iyi, [...]

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Climate Change

Millions of electric cars will need charging in the future – but how?

By Miguel Valdez, Lecturer in Technology and Innovation Management, The Open University; Matthew Cook, Professor of Innovation, The Open University, and Stephen Potter, [...]

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Climate Change

Biden plans to fight climate change in a way no U.S President has done before

By Bill Ritter Jr., Director, Center for the New Energy Economy, Colorado State University

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Mineral Supply Risk

Manganese Mining in Gabon

By Dr Apoli Bertrand Kameni

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Mineral Supply Risk

Repurposing mine tailings using microbial induced calcium carbonate precipitation

19th Feb 2021

A talk on Wednesday 24 February 2021 with Dr Dyllon Randall on manufacturing bio-bricks and bio-tiles from copper mine tailings.

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Mineral Supply Risk

The Economics Of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review

Sir Partha Dasgupta, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge, has published a landmark new report, first commissioned by the UK [...]

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Demand Drivers

State of Batteries Report 2020

The State of Batteries Report 2020 summarises the most significant developments in the battery industry over the last year.

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Climate Change

Implications of the global energy transition on Russia

An analysis of the geopolitical implications of the global energy transition on one of the world’s leading energy-producing countries.

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Mineral Supply Risk

The University Of Queensland – Sustainable Minerals Institute

The Sustainable Minerals Institute is the world's leading research institute dedicated to finding knowledge-based solutions to the sustainability challenges of the minerals industry. [...]

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Mineral Supply Risk

Conversations about mining and society – the mine life cycle

Dr Anthony Hodge unpacks some of the key challenges facing the mining industry. Here he talks about sustainability, the metals supply conundrum, and [...]

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Women in the jewellery supply chain in Madagascar

For the past 3 years, Lynda Lawson, a research associate in this gemstone knowledge hub, has been documenting and analyzing the lives of [...]

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Meeting of mines

To conclude the year, the Mineralogical Association of South Africa is hosting a virtual presentation at 13.00 on 3 December 2020, titled “Meeting [...]

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Mineral Supply Risk

United Nations conference on trade and development: commodities at a glance

Rather than merely serving economic means, an enhanced and broader understanding of commodities will be essential to combat climate change.

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Demand Drivers

Renewable energy production will exacerbate mining threats to biodiversity

Renewable energy production is necessary to halt climate change and reverse associated biodiversity losses. However, generating the required technologies and infrastructure will drive [...]

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Circular Economy

The geopolitics of metal supply security – mining, the circular economy and beyond

In this presentation Professor Saleem Ali considers the latest data on supply security based on recent research conducted on resource efficiency, recycling, remanufacturing [...]

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Mineral Supply Risk

The divers of Sewa

A short film on the unique world of artisanal divers searching for diamonds in Sierra Leone. Out of 1.5 million artisanal diamond diggers [...]

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Mineral Supply Risk

Raw talks with Jonas Moberg

For 15 years, the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) has been the flagship governance initiative for the extractive sector. After a decade leading the [...]

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Climate Change

Covid-19 has underscored the need to monitor the security of mineral supply for a clean energy future

Clean energy technologies generally require more minerals than their fossil fuel-based counterparts.

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Mineral Supply Risk

A global-scale data set of mining areas

The area used for mineral extraction is a key indicator for understanding and mitigating the environmental impacts caused by the extractive sector. To [...]

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Climate Change

The green mile

The cost of electrifying the UK's cars

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Mineral Supply Risk

Mapping artisanal and small-scale mining to the Sustainable Development Goals

Pact and the University of Delaware’s Mapping Artisanal and Small-scale Mining to the Sustainable Development Goals (ASM-SDG Policy Assessment) is the first report [...]

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Circular Economy

Estimating global copper demand until 2100 with regression and stock dynamics

This paper explores how copper demand might develop until the year 2100 under different socio-economic and technology scenarios.

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Circular Economy

Decoupling economic growth and resource use

Can we achieve economic growth and global prosperity whilst simultaneously reducing – or even reversing – the environmental degradation caused by extracting the [...]

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Mineral Supply Risk

One town, four elements: Ytterby

Yttrium, terbium, erbium and ytterbium were all named after one small town on the Stockholm archipelago. But it could have been different, and [...]

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Demand Drivers

What role for ocean-based renewable energy and deep-seabed minerals in a sustainable future?

This paper analyses the underlying tension between the need for rapid decarbonisation, including that required for scaling up ocean-based renewable energy, and the [...]

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Demand Drivers

Raw materials demand for wind and solar PV technologies in the transition towards a decarbonised energy system

This study aims at estimating the future demand for raw materials in wind turbines and solar PV following several decarbonisation scenarios.

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Circular Economy

Greater circularity leads to lower criticality, and other links between criticality and the circular economy

The modern world is reliant on metals, so a secure and stable supply is vital.

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Demand Drivers

Perspectives on cobalt supply through 2030 in the face of changing demand

Lithium-ion battery demand, particularly for electric vehicles, is projected to increase by over 300% throughout the next decade. With these expected increases in [...]

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Mineral Supply Risk

Global Material Resources Outlook to 2060

In Global Material Resources Outlook to 2060, the OECD examine what the economic drivers of resource demand globally will be during this period, [...]

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Climate Change

Mineral resource governance in the 21st century: gearing extractive industries towards sustainable development

The UN International Resource Panel (IRP) sets out how we can ensure that international governance of our natural resources becomes intertwined with vital [...]

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Climate Change

Where should metals for the green transition come from?

Comparing Environmental, Social, and Economic Impacts of Supplying Base Metals from Land Ores and Seafloor Polymetallic Nodules.

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Mineral Supply Risk

High sensitivity of metal footprint to national GDP in part explained by capital formation

Metals are a key enabler of economic development and human progress, and a requirement for the expansion of clean energy.

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Mineral Supply Risk

Science sidelined in approval of Australia’s largest coal mine

This analysis provides an overview of key events in the Adani mine’s groundwater approvals.

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Circular Economy

Improving resource efficiency and the circularity of economies for a greener world

This OECD paper outlines several measures required to help improve resource efficiency and stimulate a transition towards a more circular economy.

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Mineral Supply Risk

Identifying supply risks by mapping the cobalt supply chain

This study analyses the vulnerability of primary cobalt production to supply chain disruptions and evaluates supply risks associated with the increased attention for [...]

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Circular Economy

Review of critical metal dynamics to 2050 for 48 elements

Critical metals are technologically vital to the functionality of various emerging technologies, yet they have a potentially unstable supply. This condition calls for [...]

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Mineral Supply Risk

Deep-sea mining could transform the globe

The technology opening up the deep ocean is also opening up opportunity, not just to witness the diversity of life but to glimpse [...]

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US Geological Survey Releases 2022 List of Critical Minerals

Cobalt and Nickel for a Battery-Powered Future

The Sheila Khama Extractives Podcast

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SCMP: China-backed projects in Africa targeted by environmental groups

The New Yorker: The Dark Side of Congo’s Cobalt Rush

IGF Guidance for Governments: Environmental Management and Mining Governance

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The U.S. is worried about its critical minerals supply chains – essential for electric vehicles, wind power and the nation’s defense

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Millions of electric cars will need charging in the future – but how?

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One town, four elements: Ytterby

What role for ocean-based renewable energy and deep-seabed minerals in a sustainable future?

Raw materials demand for wind and solar PV technologies in the transition towards a decarbonised energy system

Greater circularity leads to lower criticality, and other links between criticality and the circular economy

Perspectives on cobalt supply through 2030 in the face of changing demand

Global Material Resources Outlook to 2060

Mineral resource governance in the 21st century: gearing extractive industries towards sustainable development

Where should metals for the green transition come from?

High sensitivity of metal footprint to national GDP in part explained by capital formation

Science sidelined in approval of Australia’s largest coal mine

Improving resource efficiency and the circularity of economies for a greener world

Identifying supply risks by mapping the cobalt supply chain

Review of critical metal dynamics to 2050 for 48 elements

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