Editorial Board
Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.
Members
Interests: inorganic industrial and mining wastes; environmental characterization; treatment and recycling of industrial and mining wastes; waste reprocessing; integrated management of mining wastes
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Interests: mine ventilation; goaf gas flow mechanics; gas drainage in longwall panels; spontaneous combustion management in coal mines; longwall dust control
Interests: mining waste management; environmental geomechanics; mine backfills; rheology and transport of tailings and mine backfill; geomechanics of backfilled mine stopes; rock mechanics; ground control; physical, analytical, and numerical modeling of backfilled mine stopes
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Interests: geomonitoring; geostatistics and optimization in mining; mining impact prediction, mine surveying
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2. Geology & Sustainable Mining, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Ben Guerir 43150, Morocco
Interests: geochemistry; REE; trace-element fractionation, concentration, and speciation; valuable/penalizing trace elements in phosphates; mineral-based eco-fertilizers
Interests: cemented tailings backfill technology; metal mine underground mining method; microstructural characteristics; cement-based composites; backfilling materials preparation; solid waste disposal
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Interests: drill & blast; quarrying; mining exploitation; dimension stones; mining equipment; controlled blasting; vibration monitoring; conventional & mechanised tunnelling; rock-tool interaction; excavation specific energy
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Interests: spontaneous combustion; fires; explosions; gas analysis; emergency preparedness; incident management; hours of work and OHS; occupational hygiene; fatigue; fitness for duty; coal mine fires; respirable dust; noise; occupational health and safety in mining
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Interests: mine waste reprocessing; value recovery; hydrometallurgy; contaminated mine water treatment; sludge stability
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Interests: circular economy; sustainable mining; raw materials; mining and quarrying; environmental engineering
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Interests: economic geology; mineral exploration; orebody knowledge; geometallurgy; mining geology
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Interests: mine automation and intelligent mining systems; formation excavation engineering; synthetic and renewable energy; machine dynamics and fatigue modeling and safety; health and hazards engineering
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Interests: experimental rock mechanics; thermo-hydro-mechanical coupled laboratory testing of rock; laboratory testing of rock spanning several time-scales – short term (cyclic/dynamic loading) to long term (creep loading); rock support and rock reinforcement in mining and for civil engineering tasks
Interests: technological equipment; mining; production engineering; medical composites and materials for application in engineering; composite materials
2. National Centre for International Research on Green Metal Mining (CIRGM), Beijing 102628, China
Interests: fundamental and applied research of green low-carbon mining; mine waste management; paste backfill; mechanics of mine backfills; mineral processing; environmental geomechanics
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Interests: mineral waste valorization
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Interests: rock fragmentation; drilling and blasting; mechanical excavation; alternative excavation methods; digitalisation in mining; mining process recognition and analysis
Interests: mine waste management; circular economy; minerals stewardship; mineral economics
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Interests: rock mechanics; mining geotechnics; hydrogrology; machine learning; numerical modeling; soil mechanics; reclamation; underground construction; mechanical excavation
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Interests: comminution; fracture and fragmentation of particles; particle processing; numerical modelling; geomechanics related to mining
Interests: mine risk management; mine planning and optimization; mineral economics; bed-blending and homogenisation operations; reliability analysis and maintenance optimization of mining systems
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Interests: hyperspectral; mineral exploration; spectroscopy
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Interests: underground coal gasification; underground mining; thin coal seams mining
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Interests: mineral induced pollution phenomena; raw materials; tectonics; structural geology; water quality; environmental monitoring; environmental pollution; geological mapping; field geology; environmental impact assessment; sedimentology
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Interests: rock mechanics; ground control; rock support; constitutive modelling; machine learning
Interests: tectonics; exploration geophysics; structural geology; minerals; basin analysis
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Interests: comminution; energy efficiency; mineral processing; mineral waste streams; critical raw material production; process technoeconomic analysis; sustainability; circular economy of minerals
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Interests: strata control; rock bolt load transfer mechanisms; cable bolt load transfer mechanisms; resin and grout mechanical properties; rock joints mechanical properties; advanced numerical simulations of rock structures
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Interests: tectonics; structural geology; shear zone; fluids and deformation; shear zone and mineralizations; veins, petrochronology; Himalaya; Variscan belt; northern Apennines
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Interests: mining engineering; mine planning; optimisation; mine financial valuation