Safe and Efficient Exploitation and Utilization of Deep Earth Resources

Dear Colleagues,

With the increasing demand for natural resources, shallow resources are drying up. The globalized modern economy relies on natural resources, so the pursuit of such resources will never stop. This highlights the importance of exploring natural resources sourced from the deep earth. The exploration of deep-earth natural resources will meet the demands of many scientific and engineering problems. Breakthroughs in these problems will lead to a revolution in mining technologies.

The focus of this Special Issue is on innovation and development in support of the clean, safe, and efficient exploitation and utilization of deepearth resources. This Special Issue seeks to deepen our understanding of topics related to enabling and accelerating the development and utilization of deep-earth resources, including the theoretical and scientific problems met during development, and methods of solving practical engineering and technical issues.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Overviews and perspectives of the development and utilization of deep earth resources;
• Environmental monitoring and the preservation of the ecosystem in the exploitation of deep earth resources;
• Emerging development and utilization technologies for deep earth resources;
• Engineering problems encountered in the exploitation of deep earth resources;
• Hot dry rock resource development and utilization;
• Safe mining of deep earth resources;
• Fluid mining technology of deep earth resources;
• Unconventional oil and gas development;
• Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) in deep earth;
• Heat control and utilization;
• Well integrity and risk assessment;
• Cooling methods in deep mining;
• The co-mining of heat and natural resources;

Dr. Bohong Wang
Prof. Dr. Yi Wang
Dr. Dingding Yang
Dr. Mengmeng Wu
Dr. Xincheng Hu
Guest Editors

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