Magnus Ericsson

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided an update and expansion of an earlier study within the framework of the United Nations University (UNU) World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) initiative Extractives for Development.

TL;DR: A more market oriented and optimistic perspective as mentioned in this paper focuses on production costs and prices rather than physical availability, and suggests that a list of mineral commodities most threatened by depletion can best be compiled using cumulative availability curves rather than the more common practice of calculating commodity life expectancies based on estimates of available stocks.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors collected and analyzed grade information for nine metals: copper, gold, iron, lead, manganese, nickel, PGM, tin, and zinc.

TL;DR: In this article, an up-to-date statistical analysis of the contribution of non-fuel minerals mining to low and middle-income economies is presented. And the results of this survey contradict the widespread view that mineral resources create a dependency that might not be conducive to economic and social development.

TL;DR: Vieira et al. as discussed by the authors argued that the future efforts approach is not an established rule of natural resource extraction and pointed out that it is quite impossible to proceed with extraction in the ordered way that this approach suggests because nobody has a comprehensive view of the entire natural resource.