Life-of-resource sustainability considerations for mining

摘要: AbstractMining in Australia is booming. Notwithstanding, production conditions are progressively transitioning from the mining of “cheaper, easily accessible and higher quality ores” to “lower grade, more remote, complex expensive ores”. Sustainability discussions minerals industry have largely sought improve social environmental performance individual operations, including planning for closure. However, national implications a change circumstances underpinning current prosperity underexplored. This paper uses peak metaphor map “life-of-resource” considerations, pre-and post-peak production, at local scales. An examination how impacts change, over life resource’s extraction, used inform strategies role technological policy innovation long-term benefit Australia.