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Special Issue "Feature Papers in Sustainable Mining Engineering 2023"

A special issue of Mining (ISSN 2673-6489).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2023 | Viewed by 3086

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Mostafa Benzaazoua

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Geology and Sustainable Mining Institute (GSMI), University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (UM6P), Lot 660 Hay Moulay Rachid, Ben Guerir 43150, Morocco
Interests: inorganic industrial and mining wastes; environmental characterization; treatment and recycling of industrial and mining wastes; waste reprocessing; integrated management of mining wastes; geometallurgy
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Dr. Yassine Ait-khouia
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Geology and Sustainable Mining Institute (GSMI), University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (UM6P), Lot 660 Hay Moulay Rachid, Ben Guerir 43150, Morocco
Interests: mineral processing; geometallurgy; environmental desulphurization; integrated mine waste management

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce our upcoming Special Issue, entitled “Feature paper in Sustainable Mining Engineering 2023”. This publication will feature a collection of outstanding papers, including comprehensive reviews and original research articles, in the fields of mining engineering, sustainability and environment. Researchers are invited to submit cutting-edge developments and novel knowledge related to sustainable mining engineering, with a particular focus on innovative solutions to the challenges that the mining industry is currently facing.

We welcome submissions from all researchers (from various backgrounds), especially younger scholars, who are interested in exploring innovative practices and solutions to the challenges facing the mining industry of the future.

We encourage papers on a wide range of topics related to sustainability in mining, including but not limited to:

  • Sustainable mining practices and development;
  • Mining Innovation;
  • Green mining technologies;
  • Carbon footprint reduction in mining;
  • Sustainable mineral resource management;
  • Geometallurgical/geoenvironmental modeling;
  • Eco-friendly mineral processing;
  • Digitalization and automation: mine 4.0;
  • Life cycle assessment in mining;
  • Circular economy in mining;
  • Mining environmental impact assessments;
  • Mine waste management;
  • Mine water management;
  • Mine closure planning;
  • Climate change adaptation in mining.

Join us in advancing sustainable mining practices for a better mine in the future! Submit your work today without delay.

Authors will be the Editorial Board members or those invited by the editorial office and the Editor-in-Chief. The papers would be published, free of charge, in Open Access after peer review.

Prof. Dr. Mostafa Benzaazoua
Dr. Yassine Ait-khouia
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Mining is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1000 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • sustainable mining practices and development
  • eco-friendly mineral processing
  • innovation
  • digitalization and automation: mine 4.0
  • green technologies
  • life cycle assessment
  • circular economy
  • geometallurgy/geoenvironment modeling
  • environmental impact assessments
  • sustainable resource management
  • mine waste management
  • mine water management
  • mine closure planning
  • climate change adaptation
  • carbon footprint reduction

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Effectiveness of Protein and Polysaccharide Biopolymers as Dust Suppressants on Mine Soils: Large-Scale Field Trials
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Johannes Lukas Sieger
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Bernd Georg Lottermoser
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Justus Freer
Mining 2023, 3(3), 428-462; https://doi.org/10.3390/mining3030026 - 18 Jul 2023
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Recent laboratory studies have shown that biopolymers have the potential to act as dust suppressants on barren mine soils. However, there is a lack of field trials investigating the effectiveness of biopolymer treatments under real field conditions on a large scale. This study [...] Read more.
Recent laboratory studies have shown that biopolymers have the potential to act as dust suppressants on barren mine soils. However, there is a lack of field trials investigating the effectiveness of biopolymer treatments under real field conditions on a large scale. This study performed field trials to examine the potential of three biopolymers—corn starch (CS), xanthan gum (XG), and fava bean protein concentrate (FBPC)—as dust suppressants. The field trials started in August 2022 with spraying of low doses of the selected biopolymers on trial areas of an overburden dump at the Inden open-cast lignite mine, Germany. The field trials were conducted over 45 days. They included repeated measurements of dust emissions from soil plots exposed to different airflows generated by an electric blower, visual inspections, and penetrometer tests. The results showed that all biopolymer treatments effectively suppressed dust emissions in the short term up to 8 days after application. Total suspended particle emissions measured on the biopolymer-treated trial plots were significantly reduced and ranged from 0.05 to 0.27 mg/m3 compared to the untreated control (4.5 to 39.2 mg/m3). The visual inspections and penetrometer tests supported these results. After day 8, rainfall-induced leaching of the biopolymers resulted in the rapid degradation of the treatments’ effectiveness. The results suggest that the treatments would have lasted longer under dry conditions. Thus, the field trials provide practical evidence that biopolymers can effectively mitigate dust emissions on exposed, undisturbed mine soils in the short term, making them a bio-based alternative to traditional dust suppressants, such as chloride salts or petroleum-based products. Full article
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Modelling of a Post-Mining Catchment for Future Simulations
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Devika Nair
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K. G. Evans
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Sean Bellairs
Mining 2023, 3(3), 409-427; https://doi.org/10.3390/mining3030025 - 16 Jul 2023
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Landform evolution modelling (LEM) provides an avenue for simulating how a landscape may evolve over extended time periods of thousands of years. CAESAR-Lisflood LEM which includes a hydrologic model (TOPMODEL) and a hydraulic model (Lisflood) can be used to assess the proposed final [...] Read more.
Landform evolution modelling (LEM) provides an avenue for simulating how a landscape may evolve over extended time periods of thousands of years. CAESAR-Lisflood LEM which includes a hydrologic model (TOPMODEL) and a hydraulic model (Lisflood) can be used to assess the proposed final landform morphology of a mine site by simulating how the mine landform and the landscape would evolve over a 1000-year period. The accuracy of future simulations depends on the calibration and validation of the model to past and present events. Calibration and validation of the model involve finding a combination of parameters of the model which when applied and simulated gives model outputs similar to those observed for the real site scenario for corresponding input data. Calibrating the sediment output of the CAESAR-Lisflood model at the catchment level and using it for studying the equilibrium conditions of the landform is an area that has yet to be explored. Therefore, the aim of this study was to calibrate the CAESAR-Lisflood model and then validate it. To achieve this, the model was run for a rainfall event with a set of parameters, plus discharge and sediment data for the input point of the catchment, to analyse how similar the model output would behave when compared with the discharge and sediment data for the output point of the catchment. The model parameters were then adjusted until the model closely approximated the real site values of the catchment. The model was then validated by running it for a different set of events and checking that the model gave similar results to the real site values. The outcomes demonstrated that while the model can be calibrated to a greater extent for hydrology (discharge output) throughout the year, sediment output calibration may be slightly improved via the ability to change parameters to take into account the seasonal vegetation growth during the start and end of the wet season. This study is important for designing and testing post-mining rehabilitated landscape systems that assess hydrology and sediment movement in seasonal biomes. Full article
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A Case Study of Incorporating Variable Recovery and Specific Energy in Long-Term Open Pit Mining
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Jônatas Franco Campos da Mata
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Alizeibek Saleimen Nader
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Douglas Batista Mazzinghy
Mining 2023, 3(2), 367-386; https://doi.org/10.3390/mining3020022 - 16 Jun 2023
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Integrated Optimization can find optimized solutions for a project to define open pit and mine scheduling with greater reliability. This work aims to demonstrate how the insertion of geometallurgical variables can significantly change the financial return of a project. Two geometallurgical variables are [...] Read more.
Integrated Optimization can find optimized solutions for a project to define open pit and mine scheduling with greater reliability. This work aims to demonstrate how the insertion of geometallurgical variables can significantly change the financial return of a project. Two geometallurgical variables are considered in mine planning simulations. Specific energy corresponds to the energy consumed in the comminution of the ore, and process recovery measures the percentage of metal incorporated into the product. Three scenarios were developed considering an iron ore deposit. In the Base Case (BC) scenario, the recovery was fixed, and the specific energy of comminution was not considered. GeoMet1 considers the variable recovery varying for each block. GeoMet2 considered both recovery and specific energy as variables varying for each block. GeoMet1 and GeoMet2 presented Net Present Value (NPV), respectively, as 3.68% and 13.57% lower than the BC. This overestimation of the BC results can be viewed as an optimistic case of mine planning that is very common in the mining industry. These results show that the use of specific energy and recovery variables is fundamental to obtaining more reliable mine planning. Full article
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A Review of Dimension Stone Extraction Methods
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Karandagoda Gamage Anjana Udara Samarakoon
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Samarasuriya Patabendige Chaminda
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Chulantha Lakmal Jayawardena
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Anjula Buddhika Nayomi Dassanayake
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Yasanga Suduweli Kondage
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Kannangara Appuhamilage Tharindu Theekshana Kannangara
Mining 2023, 3(3), 516-531; https://doi.org/10.3390/mining3030029 - 22 Aug 2023
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This review paper examines extraction methods in the dimension stone industry. Traditional techniques, like thermal shock, hammer and chisel, and plug and feather, were used historically. However, advancements in technology have led to the adoption of mechanized methods. Diamond wire cutting is a [...] Read more.
This review paper examines extraction methods in the dimension stone industry. Traditional techniques, like thermal shock, hammer and chisel, and plug and feather, were used historically. However, advancements in technology have led to the adoption of mechanized methods. Diamond wire cutting is a highly efficient technique that reduces waste and ensures quality. Challenges like high costs and wire breakage remain. Circular diamond saws and frame sawing are explored as alternative methods. Stone characteristics influence machinery selection and researchers have studied the impact on extraction efficiency. Controlled blasting with explosives shows promise and requires further exploration and optimization. Full article
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