TY - GEN
T1 - Life cycle inventory analysis and equivalent carbon dioxide emissions calculation of the mining and ore concentration processes of PGM at the anglo American Platinum Ltd, South Africa
AU - Mabiza, M. J.
AU - Mbohwa, C.
AU - Mutingi, M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Platinum group metals (PGM) are suitable for variety of specialty uses. A growing demand of PGM is expected to address environmental challenges; meanwhile, the extraction and recovery of PGM are among the most polluting activities to the environment. Sustainability reporting issued by mining companies annually provides figures covering economic, social as well as environmental performances; all together reflect on sustainability performance. In most reports, environmental aspect focuses on the progress made in improving the system performance in terms of satisfying compliance of emission reductions required by the regulations, and are not looked at stream value assigned to PGM currently. This study examines the growing concern of environmental emissions of PGM mining and ore concentration activities in South Africa; a case study of Anglo American Platinum.
AB - Platinum group metals (PGM) are suitable for variety of specialty uses. A growing demand of PGM is expected to address environmental challenges; meanwhile, the extraction and recovery of PGM are among the most polluting activities to the environment. Sustainability reporting issued by mining companies annually provides figures covering economic, social as well as environmental performances; all together reflect on sustainability performance. In most reports, environmental aspect focuses on the progress made in improving the system performance in terms of satisfying compliance of emission reductions required by the regulations, and are not looked at stream value assigned to PGM currently. This study examines the growing concern of environmental emissions of PGM mining and ore concentration activities in South Africa; a case study of Anglo American Platinum.
KW - Carbon Dioxide Equivalent Emissions
KW - Environmental Assessment
KW - Mining and Ore Concentration Operations
KW - Platinum Group Metals
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84988306517&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/IEEM.2014.7058792
DO - 10.1109/IEEM.2014.7058792
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84988306517
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
SP - 1018
EP - 1022
BT - IEEM 2014 - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, IEEM 2014
Y2 - 9 December 2014 through 12 December 2014
ER -
