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A Cable Laid Is a Cable Played: On the Hibernation Logic behind Urban Infrastructure Mines
2013
The Journal of urban technology
Our societies are reliant on metals to such an extent that the total amounts of some of them in the built environment are comparable in size to the remaining amounts in known mountain ores. Because of concerns about mineral scarcity, the United Nations has assessed alternative sources for metal extraction and targeted urban areas in general and infrastructure systems in particular, since these are large, spatially concentrated and rich in metals. Referring to the possibility of recovering these
doi:10.1080/10630732.2013.809222
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