Wake Up Amerika – Our industrialized existence
The Globe and Mail – Disappearance of cheap oil
elsevier.com – This raises the spectre of ‘peak minerals’ – the time at which production from terrestrial ores can no longer rise to meet demand and where a maximum (peak) production occurs.
Green Leaf Publishing – Why resources are back on the agenda
Gavin Mudd – Overall, the key trends are declining ore grades versus increasing metal production and ore milled, and increased open cut mining and associated waste rock
Springer – Human societies face a threatening future of resource scarcity and environmental damages. This book addresses the challenge of turning these risks into opportunities and policies. It is a collection of high level contributions from experts of sustainable growth and sustainable resource management.
Gavin Mudd – What are the costs in terms of energy, pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, water, land use impacts, social impacts, economic aspects associated with this globally important industry?
WAU – Non-renewable natural resources – more but not enough
UGUS Open File Report – Energy Required for Resource Exploitation
Mining Journal – Copper – Changing copper yields and grades
Gavin Mudd – We compile and analyze a range of data on uranium mining and milling, including uranium resources as well as sustainability metrics such as energy and water consumption and carbon emissions with respect to uranium production
Gavin Mudd – Metallic ore grades are falling globally as the higher grade reserves are exploited first and are progressively depleted.
Gavin Mudd – A major strategic issue for all sectors of the global mining industry is the use and management of water resources
Encyclopedia of Earth – Gold Mining and Sustainability: A Critical Review
Gavin Mudd – It is important to recognise the links between gold production trends and resource intensity, as this is critical for understanding future sustainability challenges.
Lead Action News – The Arrival of Peak Lead: Peak Environmental Impacts
Gavin Mudd – Our increasing population size and per capita impacts are severely testing the ability of Earth to provide for peoples’ most basic needs.
Gavin Mudd – There is an increasing amount of Ni being mined from laterite ores—leading to increasing energy and greenhouse gas emission costs for Ni production
Minnesota – The peak of world oil production, followed by an irreversible decline, will be a watershed in human history. The goal of this paper is to predict the world peak
elsevier.com – Metallic ore grades are falling globally as the higher grade reserves are exploited first and are progressively depleted
Yale – Phosphate has been essential to feeding the world since the Green Revolution, but its excessive use as a fertilizer has led to widespread pollution and eutrophication. Now, many of the world’s remaining reserves are starting to be depleted.
Wake Up Amerika – Increasing Global Nonrenewable Natural Resource Scarcity
UN – Soaring Demand for Metals Calls for Rethink of Recycling Practices, Says International Resource Panel
Business Insider – Grantham concludes that the world has undergone a permanent “paradigm shift” in which the number of people on planet Earth has finally and permanently outstripped the planet’s ability to support us