Natural resources sustainability: iron ore mining

In the present article, a new tool to determine environmental sustainability, the energy impact index (EII) was developed to classify different iron mine projects according to two main parameters including energy consumption and CO2 emissions. The EII considers the characteristics of the mineral (su...

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Autores:
De la Torre de Palacios, Luis
Tipo de recurso:
Article of journal
Fecha de publicación:
2011
Institución:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Repositorio:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/40547
Acceso en línea:
https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/40547
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/30644/
Palabra clave:
Sustainability
iron
energy
Rights
openAccess
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Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional
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Summary:In the present article, a new tool to determine environmental sustainability, the energy impact index (EII) was developed to classify different iron mine projects according to two main parameters including energy consumption and CO2 emissions. The EII considers the characteristics of the mineral (such as the quality, size, hardness, iron ore grade, reducibility, mineral/waste rate, and type of deposit), mining processes (type of exploitation, ore processing, available technology), and transportation (distance to cover).