A new productivity index to measure economic sustainability of the mining industry

This document aims to introduce a total productivity index to measure the economic sustainability of the mining industry. This index will take into account any technical developments, means of use of productive factors (i.e. inefficiencies and scale effects) and the effects on the growth of the geol...

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Autores:
Rodríguez González, Xosé Antón
Tipo de recurso:
Article of journal
Fecha de publicación:
2010
Institución:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Repositorio:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/28142
Acceso en línea:
https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/28142
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/18190/
Palabra clave:
economic sustainability
productivity index
technological change
reserves depletion.
Rights
openAccess
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Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional
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Summary:This document aims to introduce a total productivity index to measure the economic sustainability of the mining industry. This index will take into account any technical developments, means of use of productive factors (i.e. inefficiencies and scale effects) and the effects on the growth of the geological properties in the resources to be exploited (particularly the effects of resource reduction or reserves depletion). This new index will then be applied to the example of the Spanish mining industry, with some interesting findings regarding the configuration of sustainable mining policies.