The future of the red metal: Discards, energy, water, residues, and depletion

Progress in Industrial Ecology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 209-236

  Kapur, Amit ^a,b  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Copper futures; Copper mining; Energy use; Material substitution; Production residues; Red metal; Resource depletion; Scenario analysis; Substance flow analysis; Water use

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; COPPER; ENERGY USE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FUTURE PROSPECT; METAL; MINE; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; TAILINGS; WATER USE;

EID: 33646749533     PISSN: 14768971     EISSN: 14788764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/PIE.2006.011130     Document Type: Review

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