Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, Sustainable Minerals Institute , The University of Queensland , Queensland 4072 , Australia.
Professor, Deputy Director, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, Sustainable Minerals Institute , The University of Queensland , Queensland 4072 , Australia.
Environ Sci Technol. 2019 Sep 17;53(18):10571-10579. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.9b02808. Epub 2019 Sep 4.
Rising consumer demand is driving concerns around the "availability" and "criticality" of metals. Methodologies have emerged to assess the risks related to global metal supply. None have specifically examined the initial supply source: the mine site where primary ore is extracted. Environmental, social, and governance ("ESG") risks are critical to the development of new mining projects and the conversion of resources to mine production. In this paper, we offer a methodology that assesses the inherent complexities surrounding extractives projects. It includes eight ESG risk categories that overlay the locations of undeveloped iron, copper, and aluminum orebodies that will be critical to future supply. The percentage of global reserves and resources that are located in complex ESG contexts (i.e., with four or more concurrent medium-to-high risks) is 47% for iron, 63% for copper, and 88% for aluminum. This work contributes to research by providing a more complete understanding of source level constraints and risks to supply.
不断增长的消费者需求引发了人们对金属“可用性”和“关键性”的担忧。已经出现了评估与全球金属供应相关风险的方法。但这些方法都没有专门研究最初的供应来源：即开采主要矿石的矿山。环境、社会和治理（“ESG”）风险对于新的采矿项目的发展和资源转化为矿山生产至关重要。在本文中，我们提供了一种评估采矿业项目内在复杂性的方法。它包括八个 ESG 风险类别，这些类别覆盖了未来供应至关重要的未开发铁矿、铜矿和铝矿的位置。位于复杂 ESG 背景下（即存在四个或更多同时存在的中高风险）的全球储量和资源的比例为：铁矿 47%，铜矿 63%，铝矿 88%。这项工作通过更全面地了解供应的源头限制和风险，为研究做出了贡献。
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