Sustainability Beyond Mining: Transformations in Systems for Secondary Beneficiation
Doctoral work on sustainability thinking in the mining sector, drawing on air quality and waste residue projects inside a multinational miner, for readers concerned with beneficiation of mine waste.
by Maria Fátima Freitas Ferraz | February 2012
Sustainability in mining is still framed in neoclassical economic terms, measured by profit, shareholder value and growth, with social and environmental dimensions added in response to regulation. Six air quality and waste minimisation projects run over seven years were assessed against seven dimensions of the biosphere and fell well short. A collaborative model is proposed for a sector built on mining waste residues.
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