1. Develop a Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) method to address resource availability (‘depletion’) in sustainability assessment
2. Develop a Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) dataset through case studies in collaboration with the industrial partners from the mining sector – to validate LCIA in the sustainable primary production sector with best quality data available
3. Bring the service to a broader audience, including LCA community, mining companies and their downstream users, policy makers, academia.

The consortium will develop and validate a service, enabling stakeholders to integrate resource depletion in sustainability assessments, and thus assisting in the transition towards a more sustainable management of raw material extraction. The project will develop novel models for cause-and-effect chains enabling an accurate and accepted estimation of the impacts of resource depletion. To implement the methodology, appropriate LCI datasets are required, building on site-specific production data from existing mining operations. A transparent approach for the data collection, data quality assurance, and exploitation of a LCI database by a neutral and trustful body will be investigated.