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SUBMITTER: Maus V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7478970 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific data 20200908 1
The area used for mineral extraction is a key indicator for understanding and mitigating the environmental impacts caused by the extractive sector. To date, worldwide data products on mineral extraction do not report the area used by mining activities. In this paper, we contribute to filling this gap by presenting a new data set of mining extents derived by visual interpretation of satellite images. We delineated mining areas within a 10 km buffer from the approximate geographical coordinates of ...[more]