Open database on global coal and metal mining The FINEPRINT project launches a new major data product, the open database on global coal and metal mining. This open database provides a comprehensive collection of mining data, primarily covering physical production data of coal and metal ores on an individual mine level. [...]
Sebastian Luckeneder, Stefan Giljum, Anke Schaffartzik, Victor Maus & Michael Tost
In this Brief, we intersected global extraction data for nine metal ores with information about the location of protected areas, ecosystem types and water availability to explore the environmental risks related to the expanding mining sector.
FINEPRINT Special Session and Best Poster Award at WRF 2021 This year’s World Resources Forum, entitled "A green deal for sustainable resources", took place in Switzerland, Ghana and Online from October 12-14. The FINEPRINT project organised a special scientific session, consisting of five presentations plus two posters that cover the various research [...]
Philip Fliegel, Marco Göllrich, Maximilien Koepp, Arthur Schweitzer, Martin Bruckner & Stefan Giljum
The push by governments around the world to increasingly electrify the transportation sector has led lithium demand to surge over the past few years. This Brief presents a trade-linked material flow analysis for lithium and an environmental assessment of the water-use impacts related to lithium mining and refinement.
Presentation of framework of sub-national supply chain models The International Industrial Ecology Day 2021 under the topic of “Global Science for Global Sustainability” is organized as a 24-hour international online event on June 21st. Hanspeter Wieland from the FINEPRINT team contributes to a session on ‘Frontiers in Environmental Input-Output Analysis’. He [...]
Luckeneder, S., Giljum, S., Schaffartzik, A., Maus, V., Tost, M., 2021. Surge in global metal mining threatens vulnerable ecosystems. Global Environmental Change 69, 102303. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102303. Journal Link Global expansion of mining activities Mining activities induce profound changes to societies and the environment they inhabit. In the last two decades, [...]
Jan Sievernich, Stefan Giljum & Sebastian Luckeneder
In this Brief, we used 1 km resolution data and expert interviews to identify and explain deforestation patterns around mines in Indonesia.
Victor Maus, Stefan Giljum, Jakob Gutschlhofer, Sebastian Luckeneder & Mirko Lieber
We investigated six thousand active mining sites across the globe through visual interpretation of satellite images and found that that mining activities around the world occupy 57,277 km².
Maus, V., Giljum, S., Gutschlhofer, J., da Silva, D.M., Probst, M., Gass, S.L.B., Luckeneder, S., Lieber, M., MacCullum, I., 2020. A global-scale data set of mining areas. Nature Scientific Data (7), 289. Journal Link Missing information on land area used by global mining activities Our modern lifestyles and consumption patterns [...]
Mara Weiß, Stefan Giljum & Sebastian Luckeneder
In this Brief, we analysed around 300 mining conflicts in Latin America to find out which factors influence different conflict escalation stages.
