resources Article Impact of Covid-19 on the Mining Sector and Raw Materials Security in Selected European Countries Andrzej Gała´s 1,* , Alicja Kot-Niewiadomska 1 , Hubert Czerw 1, Vladimir Simi´c 2 , Michael Tost 3 , Linda Wårell 4 and Slávka Gała´s 5 1 Division of Mineral Policy, Mineral and Energy Economy Research Institute, Polish Academy of Science, Wybickiego 7A, 31-261 Krakow, Poland;
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[email protected]; Tel.: +48-126-171-667 Abstract: Events that change the global economy rapidly, without warning, in principle strongly affect mining, which is one of the pillars of global development. After the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic, the mining pillar seems to be relatively stable. In this study, thanks to the meeting of an international team, it was possible to collect and compare a set of data on the impact on mining. In contrast to the general assessments of the stability of the mining sector, the authors decided to Citation: Gała´s,A.; assess the impact of Covid-19 at individual stages of the mining project life cycle.