LCA of metals and minerals supply: a comprehensive analysis of global environmental impacts covering 54 elements

Frederic Lai¹, Stéphanie Muller¹, Audrey Philippe¹, Robert Istrate², Brenda Miranda Xicotencatl², Afsoon Mansouri Aski³, Aina Mas Fons^4,1, Juliana Segura-Salazar⁵, Jair Santillán Saldivar¹, Alex Cimprich⁶, Stephen Northey⁷, Lígia da Silva Lima⁸, Lieselot Boone⁸, Ryosuke Yokoi⁹, Kamrul Islam⁹, Ioanna Paschalidou¹⁰, Felipe Cerdas^11,12, Victor Balboa-Espinoza⁵, Anish Koyamparambath⁴, Diae Hennioui¹, Victoire Collignon¹, Aurélien Reys¹, Gyslain Ngadi Sakatadi¹³, Jo Dewulf⁸, Bernhard Steubing², Christoph Helbig³, Gaétan Lefebvre¹, Gian Andrea Blengini^14,13, Valeria Superti¹⁵, Masaharu Motoshita⁹, Guido Sonnemann⁴, Kwame Awuah-Offei¹⁰, Steven B. Young⁶, Shinsuke Murakami¹⁶, Antoine Beylot¹

¹BRGM, France; ²Leiden University, Netherlands; ³University of Bayreuth, Germany; ⁴University of Bordeaux, France; ⁵University of Queensland, Australia; ⁶University of Waterloo, Canada; ⁷University of Technology Sydney, Australia; ⁸Ghent University, Belgium; ⁹AIST, Japan; ¹⁰Missouri University of Science & Technology, United States; ¹¹THWS, Germany; ¹²Fraunhofer IST, Germany; ¹³Politecnico di Torino, Italy; ¹⁴University of Turin, Italy; ¹⁵ecoinvent association, Switzerland; ¹⁶University of Tokyo, Japan

Methodological framework for enhanced and parametric static and prospective mineral LCIs: A case study on copper and nickel in Canada

Marin Pellan¹, Anne de Bortoli^1,2, Guillaume Majeau-Bettez¹

¹CIRAIG, École Polytechnique de Montréal, P.O. Box 6079, Montréal, Québec H3C 3A7, Canada; ²LVMT, École des Ponts ParisTech, Cité Descartes, 6-8 Avenue Blaise Pascal, 77420 Champs-sur-Marne, France

Towards harmonized carbon footprint and life cycle assessment calculation methods for metals

Markus Berger¹, Sabina Grund², Mark Mistry³, Ladji Tikana⁴, Josephine Robertson⁵

¹University of Twente, Netherlands, The; ²International Zinc Association; ³Nickel Institute; ⁴Copper Aliance; ⁵International Council on Mining and Metals

Land-Use-Related Biodiversity Loss Embedded in Global Mining Supply Chains

Yue Yu¹, Shuntian Wang¹, Livia Cabernard², Stephan Pfister¹

¹Ecological Systems Design, Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; ²Sustainability Assessment of Food and Agricultural Systems, School of Management and School of Life Sciences, Technical University Munich, Freising, Germany

Life cycle assessment of metal recycling and its challenges

Afsoon Mansouri Aski, Christoph Helbig

University of Bayreuth, Germany

Control Variables for definition of Absolute Sustainability Boundaries for Mineral Resources

Katarzyna Maria Dudka^1,2, Michael Zwicky Hauschild^1,2, Mikolaj Owsianiak^2,1

¹Centre for Absolute Sustainability, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark; ²Section for Quantitative Sustainability Assessment, Department of Environmental and Resource Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

Sustainability in Critical Raw Materials for Energy Transition: Identification of Sustainability Indicators and Categories Through a Multivocal Literature Review

Francisco Encina, Christian Thies

Hamburg University of Technology, Germany

Moving on from existing models for life cycle inventories of tailings impoundments: case studies of a better method

Mike O'Kane¹, Johannes Drielsma²

¹Okane Consultants, Canada; ²Drielsma Resources Europe, Netherlands

Key Environmental Hotspots and Sensitivity Analysis in Pilot-Scale Metal Recovery from Acid Wastewater

Ricardo Magdalena¹, Victor Ghys¹, Lieselot Boone¹, Lidia Fernández², Ana Guedes², Jo Dewulf¹

¹Green Chemistry and Technology, Faculty of Bioscience engineering, Ghent University, 9000 Gent, Belgium; ²Cetaqua Barcelona, Crta. Esplugues, 75, 08940 Cornellà de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain