Wetemdiaf) Sustainability in Mineral Resource Extraction: Best Practices On-Shore and Challenges Off-Shore

Sustainable development in the mineral resource industry can be defined as policy in developing, operating and re-naturaring mining projects, which integrates economic, environmental, efficiency, safety and social considerations in order to improve the lives of the current generation and to ensure that future generations will have adequate resources and opportunities (e.g. Hendrix 2006, Lawrence 2011). The question may be asked, i f the extraction of non-renewable resources can be sustainable at all, as today's extracted resource