About the Authors

Junhui Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Junhui Li, Yanqiong Zhao

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China

Yanqiong Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Junhui Li, Yanqiong Zhao

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China

Shiquan Dou

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China, Mineral Resource Strategy and Policy Research Center, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China

Yongguang Zhu

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China, Mineral Resource Strategy and Policy Research Center, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China

Deyi Xu

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision

xdy@cug.edu.cn

Affiliations School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China, Mineral Resource Strategy and Policy Research Center, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.