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Authors: Azadi, M., Northey, S. A., Ali, S. H., & Edraki, M.
Affiliations: The University of Queensland (AU)
University of Technology Sydney (AU)
ORCID: Azadi, Mehdi
Northey, Stephen A.
Ali, Saleem H.
Edraki, Mansour
Venue: Nature Geoscience
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 2020-02
Volume: 13
Issue: 2
Pages: 100-104
ISSN: 1752-0894 (ISSN-L)
1752-0908
DOI: 10.1038/s41561-020-0531-3
OpenAlex: W3004050336
Semantic Scholar: ba401f1382fe75bc5ebcec07871de9d782a4214a
Cited by: 261
References: 42
Citations by year: 2026: 32 · 2025: 56 · 2024: 68 · 2023: 46 · 2022: 32 · 2021: 20 · 2020: 6
FWCI: 13.78
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
www.springer.com/tdm (vor)
Locations: Nature Geoscience (publishedVersion)
OPUS - Open Publications of UTS Scholars (University of Technology Sydney) (submittedVersion)
Funders: National Research Foundation of Korea (2017M3D8A2084752)
Topics: Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Mining and Resource Management
Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › Environmental Impact and Sustainability
Physical Sciences › Energy › Fuel Technology › Engineering and Environmental Studies
Keywords: greenhouse gas emissions, mining, copper mining, climate change mitigation, energy consumption, ore grade decline, metal production, environmental technology, Chilean copper mining

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