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Integrating indigenous knowledge and skills in mining operations: A systematic literature review 在采矿作业中整合土著知识和技能：系统的文献综述

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-06-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101706

Dennis Alonzo , Jan Michael Vincent Abril , Glen Villonez , Robin Armstrong , Irish Mae Dalona , Arnel Beltran , Aileen Orbecido , Carlito Baltazar Tabelin , Mylah Villacorte-Tabelin , Michael Angelo Promentilla , Marlon Suelto , Pablo R. Brito-Parada , Yves Plancherel , Anne D. Jungblut , Ana Santos , Paul F. Schofield , Vannie Joy Resabal , Richard Herrington

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The development of borax mining in the Salar de Ascotán and the production of an ecological subsidiarity: origins, tax exemptions, and the decimation of yareta (1880-1915) Ascotán盐湖硼砂开采的发展和生态辅助产品的生产：起源、免税和亚雷塔的大量砍伐（1880-1915）

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-06-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101695

Damir Galaz-Mandakovic , Francisco Rivera

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What Explains Variants in Resource Nationalism in Latin America...s Lithium Industry? 如何解释拉丁美洲资源民族主义的变异锂产业？

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-06-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101697

Seungho Lee

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Assemblage thinking and just transition: Theoretical building blocks of just transition assemblage 组合思维与正义化：正义化组合的理论基石

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-06-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101699

Kaifeng Zhao, Kevin Lo

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Developing a verification framework for carbon sequestration through mineral carbonation of mine tailings: An Australian context 制定通过尾矿矿物碳化固碳的核查框架：澳大利亚情况

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-06-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101696

Michael Hitch , Jiajie Li

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‘Who intersects with whom’: Competing rationalities in governing the contested interface between industrial mining and ASGM in Gorontalo Province, Indonesia “谁与谁相交”：管理印尼哥龙塔洛省工业采矿和ASGM之间有争议的界面的竞争理性

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-05-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101691

Bernadetta Devi , Robyn Mayes , Deanna Grant-Smith

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Governance at the margins of the state: contextualising the spatial and temporal realities of illegal mining in contemporary South Africa 国家边缘的治理：当代南非非法采矿的时空现实背景

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-05-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101694

Kennedy Manduna

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Protective behaviour on artisanal gold mines: the relevance of knowledge, risk perception and access to equipment 对手工金矿的保护行为：知识、风险认知和设备获取的相关性

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-05-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101693

Antoinette van der Merwe , Désirée Ruppen , Fritz Brugger , Hermann Moussa Konkobo , Isabel Günther

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Artificial intelligence and ESG in resources-intensive industries: Reviewing the use of AI in fisheries, mining, plastics, and forestry 资源密集型产业中的人工智能和ESG：回顾人工智能在渔业、矿业、塑料和林业中的应用

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-05-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101690

Raphael Deberdt , Philippe Le Billon , Oludolapo Makinde , Peter Dauvergne , Taraneh Solwati , Shayan Razmi , Gaurav Kumar , Dyhia Belhabib

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Masculinities without men: The work experiences of local female employees in a Chinese mine in Papua New Guinea 没有男人的阳刚之气：巴布亚新几内亚中资矿山当地女员工的工作经历

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-05-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101688

I-Chang Kuo

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