Decarbonisation to drive dramatic increase in mining waste–Options for reduction

RK Valenta, É Lèbre, C Antonio, DM Franks… - Resources …, 2023 - Elsevier
Global demand for energy transition metals is expected to lead to an intensification of mining
activities and an increase in associated land disturbance and mine waste volumes. This …

[HTML][HTML] The social and environmental complexities of extracting energy transition metals

É Lèbre, M Stringer, K Svobodova, JR Owen… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Environmental, social and governance pressures should feature in future scenario planning
about the transition to a low carbon future. As low-carbon energy technologies advance …

Renewable energy production will exacerbate mining threats to biodiversity

LJ Sonter, MC Dade, JEM Watson… - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Renewable energy production is necessary to halt climate change and reverse associated
biodiversity losses. However, generating the required technologies and infrastructure will …

[HTML][HTML] Re-thinking complex orebodies: Consequences for the future world supply of copper

RK Valenta, D Kemp, JR Owen, GD Corder… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
The supply of copper underpins global economic growth and human development.
Forecasts predict a market deficit of 600 kilotones of copper metal by 2021. Accessing new …

Global scan of disruptions to the mine life cycle: price, ownership, and local impact

É Lèbre, JR Owen, M Stringer, D Kemp… - … Science & Technology, 2021 - ACS Publications
Criticality and supply risk models seek to address concerns of potential disruption to global
metal supply. These models need to incorporate disruption events that arise from within the …

Uranium in iron oxide-copper-gold (IOCG) systems

MW Hitzman, RK Valenta - Economic Geology, 2005 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Olympic Dam iron oxide-copper-gold (IOCG) deposit is currently the world's
largest producer of uranium. Other IOCG deposits generally have anomalous, though …

Evolution of the Mount Woods Inlier, northern Gawler Craton, Southern Australia: an integrated structural and aeromagnetic analysis

PG Betts, RK Valenta, J Finlay - Tectonophysics, 2003 - Elsevier
Structural mapping integrated with interpretation and forward modelling of aeromagnetic
data form complimentary and powerful tools for regional structural analysis because both …

Source risks as constraints to future metal supply

É Lèbre, JR Owen, GD Corder, D Kemp… - … science & technology, 2019 - ACS Publications
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 …

Structural geophysics: Integrated structural and geophysical modelling

MW Jessell, RK Valenta - Computer methods in the geosciences, 1996 - Elsevier
We present a technique for the integrated forward modelling of the three-dimensional
structure and geophysical response of multiply deformed terrains. This technique allows …

Complex orebodies and future global metal supply: An introduction

É Lèbre, JR Owen, D Kemp, RK Valenta - Resources Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
This special issue aims to create a space for rethinking current approaches to “complex
orebodies”. Our introductory paper surveys recent developments in the field and identifies a …