Electrical and Electromagnetic Methods for Coal Exploration and Mining
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Mineral Exploration Methods and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023)
Special Issue Editors
Interests: electrical and electromagnetic methods for coal exploration and mining
Interests: transient electromagnetic method; time-domain electromagnetic method; electrical resistivity tomography
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Coal is an important basic energy source and industrial raw material. Electrical and electromagnetic methods have played very important roles in the process of coal resource exploration and development. In recent years, they have also come to play important roles in mine ecological restoration. Many new technologies and pieces of equipment for application in electrical and electromagnetic methods have emerged. Especially with the development of intelligence and the digitalization of coal mines, the electrical monitoring technology and equipment have made great progress. Electrical and electromagnetic methods have become important technical means to predict coal mine dynamic disasters and are widely used in many countries such as China and Australia. With the establishment of the constitutive relationship between the geoelectric field and stress field, seepage field, temperature field and chemical field, the geoelectric method also began to find applications in the intelligent sensing of mining environment.
This Special Issue is organized into three sections:
- Section 1—Electrical and electromagnetic properties of coal rocks: in situ or physical experiment methods and case studies of coal rock’s electrical and electromagnetic properties and their applications, especially the information characteristics and identification methods of coal rock dynamic disasters such as water flood, gas or rock outbursts.
- Section 2—Surface electrical and electromagnetic methods for coal exploration and mining: technique development and case studies of surface electrical and electromagnetic methods for coal exploration, and their applications in evaluation of engineering and environmental issues associated with the mining of coal and the ecological restoration of mining area.
- Section 3—Underground electrical and electromagnetic methods: technique development and case studies on the ground electrical and electromagnetic methods and applications in the procure of mining and tunnelling, including the working site monitoring by the electrical and electromagnetic methods.
This Special Issue aims to contribute to the disclosure of all the applications of electrical and electromagnetic methods for coal exploration and mining.
Prof. Dr. Jianhua Yue
Prof. Dr. Haiyan Yang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- electrical and electromagnetic properties of coal rock
- electrical and electromagnetic methods
- surface or underground
- exploration or monitoring
- methods and equipment
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