Simon Jasansky, Mirko Lieber, Stefan Giljum & Victor Maus
In this brief, we present an open source database on global coal and metal mine production. The database comprises extraction data for 80 materials for the years 2000 to 2021 for 1171 individual mines.
Stefan Giljum, Victor Maus, Nikolas Kuschnig, Sebastian Luckeneder, Michael Tost, Laura J. Sonter & Anthony J. Bebbington
In this brief, we present the first biome-wide assessment of deforestation impacts of industrial mining on tropical forests.
Victor Maus, Stefan Giljum, Jakob Gutschlhofer, Sebastian Luckeneder & Mirko Lieber
As an update of our previous work mapping mining sites worldwide, we quantified the extents of almost 35,000 mining sites across the globe through visual interpretation of satellite images. We find that mining activities around the world occupy 101,583 km² of land.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Victor Maus & Stefan Giljum
In this Brief, we discuss the potentials of remote sensing data to analyse spatiotemporal patterns of resource extraction and impacts and present examples from the agricultural and mining sectors.
Stephan Lutter & Stefan Giljum
Metal mining has an important impact on the local water availability and scarcity. In this Brief, we analyse the water use by the Chilean copper industry in 2018.
