Kronenberg, J. Global warming, glaciers and gold mining. GLOBAL WARMING, GLACIERS AND GOLD MINING
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Two case studies (Kumtor in the Kyrgyz Republic and Pascua-Lama in Chile–Argentina) are analysed, illustrating how gold mining interferes with glaciers and how this may be affected by changing perceptions on global warming. Although global warming presents new opportunities for the mining industry, increasing the physical accessibility of resources previously covered with glaciers, it may also limit this accessibility in consequence of changing societal preferences towards the preservation of increasingly scarce glaciers. Whether these preferences can affect gold mining, depends on a number of site and time specific factors.
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