Matching global cobalt demand under different scenarios for co-production and mining attractiveness

Journal of Economic Structures

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Tisserant, Alexandre ^a   Pauliuk, Stefan ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

By product; Cobalt; Companion metals; Copper; Critical metals; Dynamic input output analysis; Hybrid multiregional input output model; Nickel; Scenario analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 85023599216     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21932409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40008-016-0035-x     Document Type: Article

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