Global trends and environmental issues in nickel mining: Sulfides versus laterites

GM Mudd - Ore Geology Reviews, 2010 - Elsevier
Nickel (Ni) is an important metal in modern infrastructure and technology, with major uses in
stainless steel, alloys, electroplating and rechargeable batteries. Economic Ni resources are …

[HTML][HTML] Reviewing the availability of copper and nickel for future generations. The balance between production growth, sustainability and recycling rates

M Henckens, E Worrell - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2020 - Elsevier
Copper and nickel are important metals for our society. Develo** countries depend on
copper and nickel for the construction of their infrastructure. Copper and nickel are also key …

The role of nickel (Ni) as a critical metal in clean energy transition: applications, global distribution and occurrences, production-demand and phytomining

P Dilshara, B Abeysinghe, R Premasiri… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract In 2022, nickel (Ni) was nominated as a critical metal due to its wide applications in
the metal industry, especially in clean energy applications to achieve climate mitigation …

Global distribution of sediment-hosted metals controlled by craton edge stability

MJ Hoggard, K Czarnota, FD Richards, DL Huston… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Sustainable development and the transition to a clean-energy economy drives ever-
increasing demand for base metals, substantially outstrip** the discovery rate of new …

A review of pXRF (field portable X-ray fluorescence) applications for applied geochemistry

B Lemiere - Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 2018 - Elsevier
In the last thirty years, portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) has grown from prototypes to
being a key technique for field geochemical analyses, especially for mining and …

The new century for nickel resources, reserves, and mining: Reassessing the sustainability of the devil's metal

GM Mudd, SM Jowitt - Economic geology, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Nickel (Ni) is fundamentally important to the modern world for stainless steel, specialty
alloys, electroplating, batteries, and other uses. Global Ni demand is expected to soar as the …

A detailed assessment of global nickel resource trends and endowments

GM Mudd, SM Jowitt - Economic Geology, 2014 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Nickel is a metal that reflects the technological advances of the twentieth and twenty-first
centuries, emerging as critically important for stainless steel and a variety of specialty metal …

Growing global copper resources, reserves and production: Discovery is not the only control on supply

GM Mudd, SM Jowitt - Economic Geology, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Copper is vital to modern life and has an often-irreplaceable role in everyday infrastructure
and technology. However, while the planet's Cu endowment is finite, global Cu production …

Assembling Australia: Proterozoic building of a continent

PA Cawood, RJ Korsch - Precambrian Research, 2008 - Elsevier
The western two-thirds of Australia is underlain by Precambrian rocks that are divisible into
three Archean to Paleoproterozoic cratons, the West Australian, North Australian and South …

Regional structural control on the distribution of world‐class gold deposits: An overview from the Giant Jiaodong Gold Province, China

J Deng, LQ Yang, RH Li, DI Groves… - Geological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The Jiaodong gold province in northeastern China is the country's premier gold resource
and globally one of the most important gold provinces. The late Early Cretaceous gold …