Study "Remote sensing-based inventory and environmental risk assessment of copper-cobalt mining waste in the DR Congo"

based mapping, documentation review, and targeted field validation. This study covers copper-cobalt mining residues across the entire Congolese Copperbelt in the DRC provinces of Haut-Katanga and Lualaba (estimated area <45,000 km and focuses on three principal types of mining-waste facilities: tail

ings storage facilities (TSFs), waste-rock dumps (WRDs), and dispersed artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) residues of a certain minimum size. These facility types account for the majority of mining-related waste volumes and present the