Sustainable mining in tropical, biodiverse landscapes: Environmental challenges and opportunities in the archipelagic Philippines

作者：Justine Perry T. Domingo, Gawen R. T. Jenkin, Laura Quick, Richard Williams, Karen A. Hudson‐Edwards, Cecilia Tortajada, Patrick Byrne, Tom Coulthard, Jenielyn T. Padrones, Richard A. Crane, Cris Reven Gibaga, Grigorios Vasilopoulos, Kate Tungpalan, Jessie Samaniego, Emma Biles, Alexandria Tanciongco, Jonathan Chambers, Marilyn Quimado, Angel T. Bautista, Francis Ian Gonzalvo, Karmina A. Aquino, Russell Swift, Loucel Cui, Richard Chalkley, Mark Tibbett, Decibel V. Faustino‐Eslava, Carlo A. Arcilla · 发表于：Journal of Cleaner Production · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.143114 · 被引用次数：21 · 研究领域：Tailings Management and Properties、Mine drainage and remediation techniques、Mining and Resource Management

The rising demand for critical metals presents a major economic opportunity for mineral-rich countries. For a sustainable transition to a low-carbon future, it is essential to minimise impacts of mineral resource development to the environment, ecosystems, and societies of these nations. Although there has been considerable progress in the social aspects of the mining sector, environmental metrics are not showing comparable improvement. The Philippines exemplifies this challenge as a country that aims to conserve its exceptional biodiversity to maximise ecosystem services while expanding mining activities for economic growth, in a geographical setting with high mineral potential and vulnerability to natural hazards and climate change. Similar to many mining areas, environmental baselines are mostly non-existent, compounded by a legacy of mining impacts despite an established policy framework. We review issues associated with large- and small-scale mining and identify underlying research challenges and opportunities in the Philippines. Potential environmental research pathways include (i) innovative approaches for catchment scale characterisation and identification of contaminant sources; (ii) quantifying and predicting contaminant transport; (iii) deployment of flexible monitoring devices for larger-scale water quality monitoring programmes; (iv) tailings dam monitoring and management; and (v) resource assessment and metal recovery in ores and tailings. By integrating geomorp...