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Table 7.1 Energy and water consumption in other studies
Open-pit Alluvial
Papua New
Guinea
a
Perú
b
ROW
c
Haque and Norgate (2014)
Norgate and Haque
(2012)
Mudd (2007)
Energy kJ/kg Au 1.68E+14 8.20E+13 4.72E+07
6.39E+07 1.54E+08 3.47E+08
4.65E+08
1.49E+11
Water kg/kg Au 2.51E+09 1.43E+08 1.33E+06
6.89E+07 4.28E+05 2.88E+02
2.59E+02
6.35E+05
Collection of a range of data of the Australian mining industry (Mudd 2010)
Note: Copper (6.10E+10 kJ/kg), iron (1.53E+02 kJ/kg), bauxite (5.49E+01 kJ/kg) (Norgate and Haque 2010; Norgate et al. 2007)
a
Papua New Guinea, gold-silver mine operation with refinery. From the transport of raw materials to the mine, until the refining of gold and silver (Gobain et al.
2016)
b
Peru Yanacocha Mine, cradle-to-gate from raw material until refining gold (Gobain et  al. 2016), gold-silver mine operation with refinery, PE, (Author:
Matthias Tuchschmid (obsolete) active)
c
Row (rest of the world), open-pit gold-silver mine operation with refinery. This multi-output process “mining and refining, gold-silver deposit” delivers the
two coproducts: gold and silver. This data set includes the combined mining and refining of gold and silver in open-pit mines in Peru
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