Conditions for sustainable platinum mining: Insights from artisanal and small-scale mining in Colombia

IF 10.2 2区经济学 0 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Resources Policy Pub Date : 2025-01-30 DOI:10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105487

Juan Sebastián Lara-Rodríguez , Morgane M.C. Fritz

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Abstract

This article examines the necessary conditions for sustainable artisanal and small-scale Platinum mining (ASPM) in Colombia as a critical raw material (CRM). Hypothesising the environmental, social, economic and institutional dimensions based upon the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) frame, we employ generalised and ordinary least squares to analyse variables within each dimension that impact on ASPM. Through legal instruments, namely, Right to Petition and Constitutional Right Enforcement, we gathered comprehensive data from mining authorities regarding extraction, formalisation and miner registration across 1122 municipalities throughout the 2010s. Our findings reveal multifaceted associations across dimensions: in environment, whilst illegal gold mining shows a positive causal effect on ASPM, coca cultivation displays varying impacts. In the social dimension, higher multidimensional poverty has a significant positive effect on platinum extraction, while violence exhibits a negative causal bond. In the economic dimension, both infrastructure improvements and rural technological progress have significant negative effects on ASPM activity. In the institutional pillar, higher corruption levels show a positive causal link with extraction, whilst armed illegal groups display divergent effects - FARC-EP rebels relate negatively to production, while paramilitary presence connects positively. These findings underscore that sustainable ASPM requires coordinated interventions: strengthening environmental enforcement, addressing poverty whilst improving security, developing infrastructure and rural technification for formalisation, and implementing anticorruption measures alongside peacebuilding efforts. Indeed, we posit some multi-stakeholder actions towards these ends. This case could enhance both local development and global CRMs supply diversification originating from artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM).

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可持续铂开采的条件：来自哥伦比亚手工和小规模采矿的见解

本文考察了哥伦比亚作为关键原料的可持续手工和小规模铂矿（ASPM）的必要条件。基于可持续发展目标（SDGs）框架，我们对环境、社会、经济和制度维度进行假设，采用广义最小二乘和普通最小二乘来分析每个维度中影响ASPM的变量。通过法律文书，即请愿权和宪法权利执行，我们从采矿当局收集了有关2010年代1122个城市的开采、正规化和矿工登记的全面数据。我们的研究结果揭示了跨维度的多方面联系：在环境方面，虽然非法金矿开采对ASPM表现出积极的因果关系，但古柯种植表现出不同的影响。在社会层面，较高的多维贫困对铂开采有显著的积极影响，而暴力则表现出负向的因果关系。在经济层面，基础设施改善和农村技术进步对非公有制经济活动都有显著的负面影响。在制度支柱方面，较高的腐败程度与开采呈正相关，而武装非法团体则表现出不同的影响——哥伦比亚革命武装力量-人民军叛军与生产负相关，而准军事组织的存在则与生产呈正相关。这些发现强调，可持续的ASPM需要协调的干预措施：加强环境执法，在改善安全的同时解决贫困问题，发展基础设施和农村技术以实现正规化，以及在建设和平的同时实施反腐败措施。事实上，我们为实现这些目标设想了一些多方利益相关者的行动。这种情况可以促进当地发展和全球crm供应多样化，源自手工和小规模采矿（ASM）。

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Resources Policy ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-

CiteScore

13.40

自引率

23.50%

发文量

602

审稿时长

69 days

期刊介绍： Resources Policy is an international journal focused on the economics and policy aspects of mineral and fossil fuel extraction, production, and utilization. It targets individuals in academia, government, and industry. The journal seeks original research submissions analyzing public policy, economics, social science, geography, and finance in the fields of mining, non-fuel minerals, energy minerals, fossil fuels, and metals. Mineral economics topics covered include mineral market analysis, price analysis, project evaluation, mining and sustainable development, mineral resource rents, resource curse, mineral wealth and corruption, mineral taxation and regulation, strategic minerals and their supply, and the impact of mineral development on local communities and indigenous populations. The journal specifically excludes papers with agriculture, forestry, or fisheries as their primary focus.