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[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01547-4 by Victor Maus 22/7/22 Scientific data] | [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01547-4 by Victor Maus 22/7/22 Scientific data] | ||
The growing demand for minerals has pushed mining activities into new areas increasingly affecting biodiversity-rich natural biomes. Mapping the land use of the global mining sector is, therefore, a prerequisite for quantifying, understanding and mitigating adverse impacts caused by mineral extraction. | The growing demand for minerals has pushed mining activities into new areas increasingly affecting biodiversity-rich natural biomes. Mapping the land use of the global mining sector is, therefore, a prerequisite for quantifying, understanding and mitigating adverse impacts caused by mineral extraction. | ||
=====The Mining Statistics of the World===== | |||
[https://www.nature.com/articles/063551a0 by BENNETT H. BROUGH 4/4/01 nature] | |||
IT is impossible to imagine a more concise, more intelligible, or more inexpensive collection of comparative mineral statistics than is contained in the General Report on Mines and Quarries prepared by Dr. C. Le Neve Foster for the Home Office, and it would be difficult to find an editor possessing in a more marked degree the requisite technical knowledge, literary skill and critical acumen for the difficult task of abstracting and collating the heterogeneous official mineral statistics of foreign countries and of rendering them intelligible to the general reader. | |||
