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Contents below:

     · Information

      · News & periodicals

        · Institutions:

               ~ International

               ~ NGOs & initiatives

               ~ Industry associations

               ~ Companies

Also see Fossil Fuels

Information

Extractive Industries

Social Impacts of Resource Extraction

Assessment of Global Resource Use

Strategies for Sustainable Resource Use

     · Key facts about consumption of land resources

Resource Efficiency

     · International Resource Panel: report on opportunities for greater resource efficiency  

Sustainable Resource Extraction

Environmentally Sustainable Mining

Example: Resource Extraction on Australia's Coasts

News & periodicals

AZoMining

Journal of Mining and Environment

Mining.com

Institutions

~ International ~

Energy Resource Governance Initiative (ERGI)

~ NGOs & initiatives ~

EarthWorks [US]

     · “Since 1988, Earthworks has helped communities secure protections of their health, land, water, and

       air from extractive industries. We are the only national organization in the U.S. to focus exclusively on

       preventing the destructive impacts of the extraction of oil, gas, and minerals.”

Initative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA)

     · Certification

Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development (IGF)

Sustainable Minerals Institute @ University of Queensland

~ Industry associations ~

Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)

Minerals Make Life

~ Companies ~

Société des Mines de Fer de Guinée (SMFG)

Green minerals

"Green minerals" @ Wilson Center