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Global trends and untapped potential of critical minerals for a sustainable future in the Arabian Peninsula 阿拉伯半岛可持续未来的全球趋势和关键矿产的未开发潜力

IF 4.3 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2025-12-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101840

Muhammad Zaka Emad , Arshad Raza , Mohamed Mahmoud , Muhammad Shahzad Kamal , Daniyal Abbasi

The advancement in technology such as renewable energy systems, satellite missions, and others, has led to the exploration of new raw materials termed as critical minerals. The energy transition in particularly the development and production of electric vehicles, wind turbines, and semiconductors needs critical minerals like lithium, cobalt and nickel, but their supply chain is currently present in the most vulnerable locations, posing a threat to the world markets. For instance, over 70 % of cobalt originates in the Democratic Republic of Congo, while China dominates processing 80 % of critical minerals. This article takes into account global distribution, supply risk, and eco-friendly extraction of critical minerals, with special emphasis on the unutilized potential of the Arabian Peninsula. Arabian Shield (a Precambrian geological formation extending across Saudi Arabia and Oman) is host to significant deposits of phosphates, copper, gold, and critical minerals. Supported by strategic visions like Saudi Vision 2030, the area is poised to diversify the hydrocarbon-driven economy through sustainable mineral development. This article reviews the role of critical minerals in energy transition with a focus on cleaner methods, and concerns related to their global supply chains. Critical mineral potential of the Arabian Peninsula is also reviewed about the next-generation. Mineral potential of the Arabian Peninsula based on next-generation exploration technologies like AI and remote sensing. Examples of successful sustainable mining operations (e.g., Ma'aden phosphate projects) and policy measures for reducing environmental and social impacts. Through integrating geology, economics, and logistics, this review highlights the Arabian Peninsula's capacity to secure global mineral supply chains in a manner that is in line with ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) principles.

技术的进步，如可再生能源系统、卫星任务等，导致了被称为关键矿物的新原材料的探索。能源转型，尤其是电动汽车、风力涡轮机和半导体的开发和生产，需要锂、钴和镍等关键矿物，但它们的供应链目前位于最脆弱的地区，对全球市场构成了威胁。例如，超过70%的钴来自刚果民主共和国，而中国主导着80%的关键矿物的加工。本文考虑了关键矿物的全球分布、供应风险和环保开采，特别强调了阿拉伯半岛未利用的潜力。阿拉伯盾（横跨沙特阿拉伯和阿曼的前寒武纪地质构造）是磷酸盐、铜、金和重要矿物的重要矿床。在沙特2030愿景等战略愿景的支持下，该地区将通过可持续的矿产开发实现碳氢化合物驱动型经济的多元化。本文回顾了关键矿物在能源转型中的作用，重点是清洁方法，以及与全球供应链相关的问题。对阿拉伯半岛的关键矿产潜力进行了展望。基于人工智能和遥感等下一代勘探技术的阿拉伯半岛矿产潜力。成功的可持续采矿作业（例如马登磷酸盐项目）的例子和减少环境和社会影响的政策措施。通过整合地质、经济和物流，本评估强调了阿拉伯半岛以符合ESG（环境、社会和治理）原则的方式确保全球矿产供应链安全的能力。

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Gender-role norms and livelihoods of female small-scale gold miners in Kenya: A qualitative study 性别角色规范与肯尼亚女性小规模金矿工人的生计：一项定性研究

IF 4.3 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2025-12-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101828

Tara Rava Zolnikov , Charles Midega , Frances Furio , Tanya Clark , Aidan Jackson , Nathalia Rodrigues , Rhett-Lawson Mohajer

Artisanal and small-scale gold mining continues to grow worldwide and is linked to gendered labor divisions, limited economic opportunities, and exposure to unsafe working conditions. Women and men often hold different roles in mining, and these gendered roles shape women’s safety, health, and economic opportunities. In 2025, a descriptive phenomenological qualitative study was conducted in mining zones in western Kenya. Convenience sampling was used to recruit 64 miners, including 39 women and 25 men. Both women and men contribute to household earnings, yet the findings show clear gendered dynamics around women’s income, their position in the household, and the implications of the roles they hold for power, safety, and income. Women primarily performed processing tasks such as drying, crushing, and washing ore, which exposed them to greater mercury risks and provided lower economic returns. These patterns also influenced household relationships and reinforced cultural expectations about gender. Persistent gender norms continue to shape mining work, limit women’s opportunities, and concentrate them in roles that offer fewer economic gains and greater vulnerability. These gendered roles limit women’s earning potential, constrain decision-making power, and place them in positions with greater physical strain and exposure to hazardous tasks.

手工和小规模金矿开采在世界范围内继续增长，这与性别分工、有限的经济机会和暴露于不安全的工作条件有关。妇女和男子在采矿中往往扮演不同的角色，这些性别角色决定了妇女的安全、健康和经济机会。2025年，在肯尼亚西部矿区进行了描述性现象学定性研究。采用方便抽样方法，共招募64名矿工，其中女性39人，男性25人。女性和男性都对家庭收入做出了贡献，但研究结果显示，围绕女性收入、她们在家庭中的地位以及她们在权力、安全和收入方面所扮演的角色，存在明显的性别差异。妇女主要从事干燥、粉碎和洗涤矿石等加工工作，这使她们面临更大的汞风险，经济回报也较低。这些模式也影响了家庭关系，强化了对性别的文化期望。持久的性别规范继续影响着采矿工作，限制了妇女的机会，使她们集中在经济收益更少、脆弱性更大的岗位上。这些性别角色限制了女性的收入潜力，限制了她们的决策权，并将她们置于更大的身体压力和危险任务的岗位上。

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Beyond the twin transition: military drivers of critical minerals’ expansion 在双重转型之外：关键矿产扩张的军事驱动力

IF 4.3 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2025-12-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101836

Phil Johnstone , Anabel Marín

An accelerating clean energy and digital “twin transition” is widely identified as the primary driver of rising critical minerals extraction. Policy institutions and academic analyses highlight a range of complex challenges for sustainable development that follow from this. Far less attention is paid to another core driver: accelerating military mobilisation and war-related technological change. This perspective paper shifts attention to the dynamics of military demand for minerals and critically examines the implications for sustainable development. We trace the long-standing role of military demand in shaping critical minerals extraction and the emergence of persistent sustainability challenges. We outline how military demand continues to shape critical minerals classifications, priorities, extraction volumes and policy approaches – an influence that has strengthened recently yet is rarely considered in prominent forecasts and concerns around demand and supply. We then consider military demand in the context of prominent social, economic and environmental sustainability concerns in extractive industries today. While increased military influence may spur some innovation, it is likely to exacerbate persistent developmental and environmental problems in mining, and potentially undermine current frameworks and initiatives for sustainable development.

清洁能源和数字化“孪生转型”的加速被广泛认为是关键矿物开采量上升的主要驱动因素。政策机构和学术分析强调了由此带来的可持续发展的一系列复杂挑战。人们对另一个核心驱动因素的关注要少得多：加速军事动员和与战争相关的技术变革。这份远景文件将注意力转移到军事对矿物需求的动态，并严格审查其对可持续发展的影响。我们追溯了军事需求在塑造关键矿产开采和持续可持续性挑战方面的长期作用。我们概述了军事需求如何继续影响关键矿物的分类、优先事项、开采量和政策方法——这种影响最近有所加强，但在主要的预测和对供需的担忧中很少被考虑到。然后，我们在当今采掘业突出的社会、经济和环境可持续性问题的背景下考虑军事需求。虽然军事影响的增加可能会刺激一些创新，但它可能会加剧采矿方面持续存在的发展和环境问题，并可能破坏现有的可持续发展框架和倡议。

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Sexual violence and extraction: Interrogating mining executive discourses of corporate social responsibility, violence, and impunity 性暴力和抽取：质问采矿业高管关于企业社会责任、暴力和有罪不罚的话语

IF 4.3 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2025-12-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101824

Simon Granovsky-Larsen , Rebecca Jane Hall

Gender-based and sexual violence permeates resource extraction. This violence operates in many forms and spheres, both public and private. Focusing on a case of overt, public violence, we ask, what is productive about gender-based and sexual violence for mining corporations? In the context of commitments to social responsibility and the gender impacts of mining, what can explain corporate engagement with acts of extreme violence that publicly undermine these commitments? We respond by exploring the case of the 2007 attack on Maya Q’eqchi’ women near the Fénix nickel mine in Guatemala. Following an attack allegedly involving gang rape by public-private armed forces, eleven survivors mobilized to demand justice in the landmark Caal v. Hudbay legal case in Canada. Our analysis offers a reading of the internal communications of mining executives and their affiliates, which were released through the case. Bringing these data in conversation with critical theories of race, gender and extraction, we argue that the mining company benefitted not only from the gendered suppression and discipline of resistance, but also from the reinforcement of a racialized view of Guatemala as violent—a stereotype that allows Canadian corporate executives to continue to project their goodness, regardless of the substance of their actions.

性别暴力和性暴力渗透在资源开采中。这种暴力以多种形式和领域发生，包括公共和私人暴力。聚焦于一个公开的、公开的暴力案件，我们问，对矿业公司来说，基于性别的暴力和性暴力有什么成效？在对社会责任的承诺和采矿的性别影响的背景下，如何解释企业参与公开破坏这些承诺的极端暴力行为？我们的回应是探讨2007年在危地马拉fsamunix镍矿附近袭击玛雅Q ‘ eqchi ’妇女的案件。在一起据称涉及公私武装部队轮奸的袭击事件发生后，11名幸存者动员起来，要求在加拿大具有里程碑意义的卡尔诉赫德贝法律案件中伸张正义。我们的分析提供了对矿业高管及其附属公司的内部通信的解读，这些通信是通过此案发布的。将这些数据与种族、性别和开采的批判性理论进行对话，我们认为矿业公司不仅受益于性别压制和抵抗纪律，还受益于危地马拉暴力的种族化观点的强化——这种刻板印象允许加拿大公司高管继续表现出他们的善良，而不管他们行为的实质。

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Untangling indigenous land rights: Compensating cultural and spiritual losses caused by mining activities in South Africa 理清土著土地权利：补偿南非采矿活动造成的文化和精神损失

IF 4.3 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2025-12-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101823

Lindani Mhlanga

Mining operations in rural South Africa have long caused conflicts between powerful corporations and land-insecure Indigenous communities. Despite legislative protections under the Interim Protection of Informal Land Rights Act (IPILRA), Indigenous communities remain vulnerable due to foreign investment strategies that prioritise economic interests. This article explores the broader implications of mining activities, particularly after mine closures, on Indigenous land rights. By analysing the South African Constitution, IPILRA, and mining laws, this article argues that compensation for Indigenous communities must encompass not only economic and environmental losses but also cultural, spiritual, and social impacts. The disaggregation of Indigenous land rights is essential for recognising these non-tangible losses as constitutional property, ensuring that Indigenous communities are fully compensated for the totality of their deprivations.

长期以来，南非农村地区的采矿活动引发了强大公司与土地不安全的土著社区之间的冲突。尽管《非正式土地权利临时保护法案》（IPILRA）提供了立法保护，但由于优先考虑经济利益的外国投资战略，土著社区仍然很脆弱。本文探讨了采矿活动，特别是在矿山关闭后，对土著土地权利的更广泛影响。通过分析南非宪法、IPILRA和采矿法，本文认为对土著社区的补偿不仅必须包括经济和环境损失，还必须包括文化、精神和社会影响。要承认这些无形的损失是宪法规定的财产，确保土著社区得到对其全部剥夺的充分补偿，对土著土地权利进行分类是必不可少的。

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Metals as a service (MaaS) for copper: A systems-scale framework for circular stewardship, digital traceability, and sustainable resource governance 铜的金属即服务（MaaS）：循环管理、数字可追溯性和可持续资源治理的系统级框架

IF 4.3 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2025-12-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101826

Michael Hitch , Jiajie Li , Duoxueer Jia

Copper sits at the centre of the global transition toward electrification, digitalization, and low-carbon infrastructure. Yet traditional linear models of extraction, fabrication, consumption, and disposal are increasingly misaligned with intensifying demand trajectories and escalating environmental constraints. Declining ore grades, rising energy intensity, and the geopolitical concentration of supply exacerbate systemic vulnerabilities, while the long residence times of copper in infrastructure delay the return of secondary material to productive circulation. In response, this paper advances an integrated, systems-scale framework—Metals as a Service (MaaS)—that reconceptualizes copper as a long-lived, stewarded industrial asset rather than a consumable input. Drawing on updated material-flow research, circular-economy policy developments, and emerging digital infrastructures for traceability, this paper demonstrates how MaaS restructures incentives, enhances recovery efficiency, reduces primary extraction, and stabilizes supply amid accelerating demand.

铜处于全球向电气化、数字化和低碳基础设施转型的中心。然而，传统的提取、制造、消费和处置的线性模型越来越不适应日益加剧的需求轨迹和不断升级的环境约束。矿石品位下降、能源强度上升以及供应的地缘政治集中度加剧了系统脆弱性，而铜在基础设施中的停留时间过长，推迟了二次材料重返生产循环。作为回应，本文提出了一个集成的系统规模框架-金属即服务(MaaS) -将铜重新定义为一种长期使用的管理工业资产，而不是一种可消费的投入。利用最新的物流研究、循环经济政策发展和新兴的可追溯性数字基础设施，本文展示了MaaS如何在需求加速的情况下重组激励机制、提高回收效率、减少初级开采并稳定供应。

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The contribution of South African mining companies to the sustainable development goals: A knowledge synthesis from text mining 南非矿业公司对可持续发展目标的贡献：来自文本挖掘的知识综合

IF 4.3 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2025-12-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101827

Lorren K Haywood , Suzanna HH Oelofse , Sumaya Khan , Jodi Pelders , Busi Maphalala

This study examines how the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are prioritised and integrated within South Africa’s mining sector through an analysis of sustainability and integrated reports from the top 13 Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed mining companies between 2020 and 2023. Using the SDG Mapper, a text-mining tool that quantifies direct and indirect references to all 17 SDGs, the research identifies focus areas and reporting gaps. Findings show a steady rise in SDG references over time, with SDG 13 (climate action), SDG 12 (responsible consumption and production), and SDG 8 (decent work and economic growth) dominating corporate disclosures. SDG 7 (affordable and clean energy) also features strongly, reflecting responses to climate risks and regulatory pressure through emissions reduction and renewable energy adoption. In contrast, SDG 6 (clean water and sanitation) and SDG 15 (life on land) have only recently gained traction, exposing uneven sustainability practices. SDG 3 (good health and well-being) receives moderate attention despite its prominence in global mining frameworks. The study highlights the need for a more balanced, integrated approach that addresses environmental, social, and governance dimensions, and advocates systems thinking to strengthen sustainable mining in South Africa and other emerging economies.

本研究通过对2020年至2023年期间约翰内斯堡证券交易所前13家上市矿业公司的可持续性和综合报告的分析，探讨了联合国可持续发展目标（sdg）如何在南非矿业部门得到优先考虑和整合。该研究使用可持续发展目标映射器（一种文本挖掘工具，可对所有17个可持续发展目标的直接和间接参考进行量化），确定重点领域和报告差距。调查结果显示，随着时间的推移，可持续发展目标的提及率稳步上升，可持续发展目标13（气候行动）、可持续发展目标12（负责任的消费和生产）和可持续发展目标8（体面工作和经济增长）在企业披露中占主导地位。可持续发展目标7（负担得起的清洁能源）也很突出，反映了通过减排和采用可再生能源来应对气候风险和监管压力。相比之下，可持续发展目标6（清洁水和卫生设施）和可持续发展目标15（陆地上的生命）直到最近才获得关注，暴露出可持续性实践的不均衡。可持续发展目标3（良好健康和福祉）尽管在全球采矿框架中占有突出地位，但受到的关注并不多。该研究强调需要采取一种更加平衡、综合的方法，解决环境、社会和治理方面的问题，并倡导系统思考，以加强南非和其他新兴经济体的可持续采矿。

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Corrigendum to 'State incapacitation for partisan political interest: Assessing government’s responses to the neogalamsey crisis in Ghana' “国家对党派政治利益的无能为力：评估加纳政府对新加拉姆西危机的反应”的勘误表

IF 4.3 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2025-12-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101822

George M. Bob-Milliar , Humphrey Asamoah Agyekum

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IF 4.3 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2025-12-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101825

William N. Holden

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Development in the context of electrification and the lithium industry: The view of the citizens of San Pedro de Atacama 电气化和锂工业背景下的发展：圣佩德罗·德阿塔卡马市民的观点

IF 4.3 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2025-11-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101820

Eduardo Ordonez-Ponce , Mauricio Lorca

In the face of the climate emergency, lithium is seen as essential for the green transition. Yet, the voices of those living in lithium-rich regions have been excluded from discussions about the industry's role in their development. Drawing on socio-environmental justice literature, this study interviewed Indigenous and non-Indigenous citizens from San Pedro de Atacama in the "Lithium Triangle" region to explore their perspectives on lithium mining. While most do not oppose the industry outright, their support is conditional fundamentally on economic benefits. Despite generally negative views on mining’s impacts, many adopt a pragmatic stance, engaging with companies to secure tangible benefits amid deteriorating environmental conditions and social tensions leading to symbiotic relationships. Their responses reflect broader dynamics shaped by state neglect and corporate influence that shape the region’s path towards or away from socio-environmental justice.

面对气候紧急情况，锂被视为绿色转型的关键。然而，生活在锂资源丰富地区的人们的声音却被排除在有关该行业在其发展中的作用的讨论之外。根据社会环境正义文献，本研究采访了来自“锂三角”地区圣佩德罗德阿塔卡马的土著和非土著公民，以探讨他们对锂开采的看法。虽然大多数人并不完全反对该行业，但他们的支持基本上是以经济效益为条件的。尽管对采矿的影响普遍持负面看法，但许多人采取了务实的立场，在环境状况恶化和社会紧张局势导致共生关系的情况下，与企业合作以确保切实的利益。他们的反应反映了国家的忽视和企业的影响所形成的更广泛的动态，这些影响决定了该地区走向或远离社会环境正义的道路。

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