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  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,982 Views
6 Pages

Industry 4.0 Roadmap for the Mining Sector

  • Doris Skenderas and
  • Chrysa Politi

The mining industry is by nature a challenging and demanding sector. Beyond ore extraction, management, processing, and transportation are involved in mining activities. Mining operations, often located in geographically remote and isolated areas, ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,846 Views
22 Pages

Transport System Digitalization in the Mining Industry

  • Marek Ondov,
  • Janka Saderova,
  • Andrea Sofrankova,
  • Lukas Horizral and
  • Peter Kacmary

1 July 2025

The mining industry faces increasing pressure to improve efficiency, reduce operational costs, and adapt to modern technological trends. Central to these challenges is digitalization. This paper compares the level of digitalization in the mining indu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,392 Views
15 Pages

27 November 2019

Global climate change is increasingly influencing the economic system. With the frequent occurrence of extreme weather events, the influences of climate change on the economic system are no longer limited to the agricultural sector, but extend to the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,940 Views
25 Pages

An Investigation of Learning Needs in the Mining Industry

  • Sergio Miranda,
  • Antonio Marzano and
  • Rosa Vegliante

16 October 2023

Mining operations are risky and often dangerous, with a high potential for accidents. Many of these accidents can be prevented by implementing safety measures. It is essential that mining companies take these measures seriously to protect the safety...

  • Review
  • Open Access
61 Citations
15,916 Views
22 Pages

10 December 2020

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has the potential to improve the production and business processes by enabling the extraction of valuable information from industrial processes. The mining industry, however, is rather traditional and somewhat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
9,865 Views
19 Pages

Text Mining for Supply Chain Risk Management in the Apparel Industry

  • Sayed Mehdi Shah,
  • Michael Lütjen and
  • Michael Freitag

5 March 2021

Text mining tools are now widely used for the efficient management of information and resources in business, academic and research organizations. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of research articles on the application of text mining tech...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
15,209 Views
20 Pages

Review of Key Performance Indicators for Process Monitoring in the Mining Industry

  • Paulina Gackowiec,
  • Marta Podobińska-Staniec,
  • Edyta Brzychczy,
  • Christopher Kühlbach and
  • Toyga Özver

4 October 2020

The sustainable development of an organisation requires a holistic approach to the evaluation of an enterprise’s goals and activities. The essential means enabling an organisation to achieve goals are business processes. Properly managed, busin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,158 Views
16 Pages

14 April 2018

This article addresses issues of air pollutant emissions by Polish mining industry leaders in the light of corporate social responsibility policy: Kombinat Górniczo-Hutniczy Miedzi Polska Miedź S.A. (KGHM), Polska Grupa Energetyczna S.A. (PGE). The C...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,738 Views
20 Pages

This study uses a vector autoregression (VAR) model to analyze changes in pollutants among different mining industries and related policy in China from 2001 to 2014. The results show that: (1) because the pertinence of standards for mining waste wate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,735 Views
13 Pages

Contribution of Mining Industry in Chosen EU Countries to the Sustainability Issues

  • Henrieta Pavolová,
  • Katarína Čulková,
  • Zuzana Šimková,
  • Andrea Seňová and
  • Dušan Kudelas

31 March 2022

In recent years, the mining industry has achieved an important position in the national economy due to its increasing productivity. However, since 2000, there have been signs of a slowdown, resulting from the national and local conditions of the mini...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,464 Views
18 Pages

The impact of mining industries’ operations on different areas is easy to be noticed. Thus, nowadays different research considering ecology, economy, society, or engineering is performed in light of mining industries. However, the impact on edu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,306 Views
10 Pages

18 August 2021

Poland still relies largely on coal for energy generation, which creates environmental problems connected to the mining process, particularly the issue of saline waste water discharge. Membrane-based zero liquid discharge systems can be employed to r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,537 Views
22 Pages

Circular Economy for Strategic Management in the Copper Mining Industry

  • Angélica Patricia Muñoz-Lagos,
  • Luis Seguí-Amórtegui and
  • Juan Pablo Vargas-Norambuena

11 July 2025

This study examines the awareness and implementation of Circular Economy (CE) principles within Chile’s mining sector, which represents the world’s leading copper producer. We employed a mixed-methods approach, combining quantitative surv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,527 Views
13 Pages

Adoption of Industry 4.0 Technologies in Chilean Mining: A Comparative Analysis Between Sectors

  • Mauricio Castillo-Vergara,
  • Rodrigo Ortiz-Henríquez,
  • Cristian Geldes,
  • Víctor Muñoz-Cisterna and
  • Claudio Escobar-Arriagada

24 October 2024

Industry 4.0 represents a crucial technological revolution for the modernization and competitiveness of companies, offering tools that enhance the efficiency, productivity, and sustainability of industrial processes. Adopting these technologies is es...

  • Review
  • Open Access
75 Citations
27,573 Views
34 Pages

Risk Assessment Methods in Mining Industry—A Systematic Review

  • Agnieszka Tubis,
  • Sylwia Werbińska-Wojciechowska and
  • Adam Wroblewski

28 July 2020

Recently, there has been a growing interest in the mining industry in issues related to risk assessment and management, which is confirmed by a significant number of publications and reports devoted to these problems. However, theoretical and applica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,880 Views
15 Pages

Achieving Circularity through Novel Product-Service Systems in the Mining Industry: An Opportunity for Circularity

  • Juan Pablo Vargas,
  • Angélica Patricia Muñoz Lagos,
  • José Guillermo Feriz Torres,
  • Ian Scott Kinney,
  • Sebastián Pérez Cortés and
  • Juan Pablo Hurtado

19 March 2022

The evolution toward sustainable mining can be achieved by implementing circular economies (CEs), and one way forward is via product-service systems (PSSs). However, applying PSSs in the mining industry is an area with little extant research. We seek...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,573 Views
20 Pages

30 December 2021

Stope design is a core discipline within mining engineering. This study analyzes the current state-of-the-art of stope design through a survey addressed to mining industry professionals. In stope design research the dominance of empirical methods has...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
17,478 Views
36 Pages

20 April 2022

The mining industry faces diverse challenges to maintain sustainable production, particularly regarding critical water and energy supplies. As a significant player in the copper mining industry, Chile has become a global reference. Therefore, this re...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,254 Views
69 Pages

8 April 2025

Recently, there has been a growing interest in issues related to mining equipment maintenance, with particular focus on pumping systems’ continuous operation. However, despite wide applications of pump system maintenance in a wide range of indu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,226 Views
28 Pages

Mapping the Literature on Social Responsibility and Stakeholders’ Pressures in the Mining Industry

  • Margarida Rodrigues,
  • Maria-Ceu Alves,
  • Rui Silva and
  • Cidália Oliveira

Mining activities can be good for the local economy, but they can also have a negative impact, which has created increasing pressure from stakeholders. A constructive and positive engagement between a company and its stakeholders is important for sus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,636 Views
19 Pages

8 February 2022

The mining industry plays an extremely important strategic role in China’s economic and social development. In the new era of pursuing circular/green/efficient development, the evaluation of the total factor environmental efficiency (TFEE) of C...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,891 Views
31 Pages

Large-Scale Li-Ion Battery Research and Application in Mining Industry

  • Lingyu Meng,
  • Guofa Wang,
  • Khay Wai See,
  • Yunpeng Wang,
  • Yong Zhang,
  • Caiyun Zang,
  • Rulin Zhou and
  • Bin Xie

25 May 2022

The lithium-ion battery (LIB) has the advantages of high energy density, low self-discharge rate, long cycle life, fast charging rate and low maintenance costs. It is one of the most widely used chemical energy storage devices at present. However, th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,406 Views
15 Pages

30 October 2023

Public procurement procedures facilitate the purchase of products, services, or civil works by public administrations. In Poland, they follow the national rules specified in the Public Procurement Act. Public procurement aims to ensure a transparent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,385 Views
19 Pages

18 June 2024

Open-pit mining is a cornerstone of industrial raw material extraction, yet it is fraught with safety concerns due to rough operating conditions. The advent of Industry 4.0 has introduced advanced technologies such as AI, the IoT, and autonomous syst...

  • Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
7,123 Views
27 Pages

Although multiview platforms have enhanced work efficiency in mining teleoperation systems, they also induce “cognitive tunneling” and depth-detection issues for operators. These issues inadvertently focus their attention on a restricted...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
5,710 Views
18 Pages

10 November 2022

This paper merges new research topics in Industry 5.0 using the Business Process Modeling and Notation (BPMN) approach able to integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) in production processes. The goal is to provide an innovative approach to model prod...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,206 Views
29 Pages

15 December 2022

With the advent of the Industry 4.0 era, information technology has been widely developed and applied in the construction engineering field. Text mining techniques can extract interesting and important data hidden in plain text, potentially allowing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
9,587 Views
24 Pages

Generic Multi-Layered Digital-Twin-Framework-Enabled Asset Lifecycle Management for the Sustainable Mining Industry

  • Nabil El Bazi,
  • Mustapha Mabrouki,
  • Oussama Laayati,
  • Nada Ouhabi,
  • Hicham El Hadraoui,
  • Fatima-Ezzahra Hammouch and
  • Ahmed Chebak

14 February 2023

In the era of digitalization, many technologies are evolving, namely, the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence (IA), and digital twin (DT) which has gained significant traction in a variety of sectors, includin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
744 Views
13 Pages

17 November 2025

Financial literacy is not just an individual skill but a crucial enabler for sustainable development and gender equality, particularly in historically male-dominated sectors like mining. Despite progress in financial inclusion, women in Mpumalanga&rs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,215 Views
15 Pages

IOTA-Based Distributed Ledger in the Mining Industry: Efficiency, Sustainability and Transparency

  • Nenad Gligoric,
  • David Escuín,
  • Lorena Polo,
  • Angelos Amditis,
  • Tasos Georgakopoulos and
  • Alberto Fraile

31 January 2024

The paper presents a traceability framework founded upon a methodological approach specifically designed for the integration of the IOTA-based distributed ledger within the mining industry. This framework constitutes an initial stride towards the cer...

  • Review
  • Open Access
75 Citations
12,955 Views
13 Pages

The current advancement of robotics, especially in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), leads to a prominent combination between the mining industry and connected-embedded technologies. This progress has arisen in the form of state-of-the-art automated gian...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,266 Views
13 Pages

1 November 2017

As mining companies reveal more and more public information about themselves, the behaviour fosters a better image. This article aims to present two industry leaders in the context of environmental requirements they have met (status at the end of 201...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,883 Views
21 Pages

4 January 2024

Faced with the challenges of increasing demand and expanding emissions, China’s mining industry is at a crucial stage of sustainable development. In the context of the new technological revolution and industrial transformation, researching how...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
9,061 Views
12 Pages

29 April 2015

China, as the largest coal-producing and -consuming country in the world, is highly dependent on its coal industry, or “Black Gold” industry, for the national energy and economy. The consequent environmental crises, however, have persisted for decade...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,204 Views
17 Pages

Improving the Performance of Entities in the Mining Industry by Optimizing Green Business Processes and Emission Inventories

  • Ionica Oncioiu,
  • Sorinel Căpuşneanu,
  • Dana-Maria Oprea Constantin,
  • Mirela Cătălina Türkeș,
  • Dan Ioan Topor,
  • Florentina Raluca Bîlcan and
  • Anca Gabriela Petrescu

16 August 2019

Due to environmental considerations, environmental sustainability has become the main target of contemporary organizations, which has a direct influence on increasing their performance. The purpose of this study was to present the efficiency of green...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,733 Views
20 Pages

23 May 2018

Coal-mining contributes much to the economic welfare of a country. Yet it brings along a number of challenges, notably environmental impacts which include water pollution in a water scarce country such as South Africa. This research is conducted in t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,328 Views
21 Pages

12 July 2020

The mining industry (MI) has played a role in proving a stable supply of minerals for industrial production and human survival. The South Korean government is implementing various policies to promote the MI and needs quantitative information on the e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,199 Views
14 Pages

Over the past 10 years, the mining industry of Russia has seen a greater than three-fold decrease in injury rates, thanks to the successful implementation of innovative labor safety technologies. Despite this, injury levels remain unacceptably high c...

  • Review
  • Open Access
40 Citations
12,647 Views
34 Pages

8 April 2018

Data mining (DM) with Big Data has been widely used in the lifecycle of electronic products that range from the design and production stages to the service stage. A comprehensive analysis of DM with Big Data and a review of its application in the sta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Views
21 Pages

19 March 2026

Against the backdrop of accelerating global carbon neutrality and the full implementation of China’s “Dual Carbon” strategy, the mining industry, as an energy-intensive sector that guarantees resource supply, plays a critical suppor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
4,820 Views
21 Pages

Novel Methods in Multiple Criteria Decision-Making Process (MCRAT and RAPS)—Application in the Mining Industry

  • Katarina Urošević,
  • Zoran Gligorić,
  • Igor Miljanović,
  • Čedomir Beljić and
  • Miloš Gligorić

19 August 2021

Multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) is a supporting tool which is widely spread in different areas of science and industry. Many researchers have confirmed that MCDM methods can be useful for selecting the best solution in many different problem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,995 Views
17 Pages

Assessment of Ecological and Toxicological State of Soils and Waters in the Neighborhood of Mining Industry Enterprises in the Armenian Highlands

  • Meruzhan Haykaram Galstyan,
  • Maxim Viktorovich Larionov,
  • Hovik Yakhsibek Sayadyan and
  • Karine Shahen Sargsyan

31 January 2023

The article presents the results of the seven-year study on the state of arable lands and wastewaters in the districts of mining enterprises in Armenia. An assessment of the ecological and toxicological state of wastewaters and contaminated areas was...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,431 Views
15 Pages

6 July 2022

Data are playing an increasingly important role in the development of industry–education cooperation strategies in vocational education and training. The objective of this study was to promote the comprehensive progress of an industry–edu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,548 Views
16 Pages

Integration of Data Analytics and Data Mining for Machine Failure Mitigation and Decision Support in Metal–Mechanical Industry

  • Sidnei Alves de Araujo,
  • Silas Luiz Bomfim,
  • Dimitria T. Boukouvalas,
  • Sergio Ricardo Lourenço,
  • Ugo Ibusuki and
  • Geraldo Cardoso de Oliveira Neto

Background: The growing complexity of production processes in the metal–mechanical industry demands ever more effective strategies for managing machine and equipment maintenance, as unexpected failures can incur high operational costs and compr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
9,713 Views
17 Pages

Effect of Corporate Social Responsibility on Community Resilience: Empirical Evidence in the Nickel Mining Industry in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia

  • Iskandar Zainuddin Rela,
  • Abd Hair Awang,
  • Zaimah Ramli,
  • Yani Taufik,
  • Sarmila Md Sum and
  • Mahazan Muhammad

13 February 2020

Mining is an important industry in Indonesia. A nickel mining company has operated for almost 45 years. It has managed corporate social responsibility (CSR) programmes in the neighbouring local community. In addition to the environmental conservation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,397 Views
14 Pages

9 January 2023

In this paper, we test the impact of weather-related disasters on the individual firm’s equity financing cost based on Chinese listed companies in the mining industry. We collect data from the China Meteorological Disaster Yearbook and CSMAR da...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
976 Views
33 Pages

5 August 2025

The mining industry (MI) in mineral-rich regions is pivotal for economic growth but is challenged by significant pollution and emissions. This study examines Guangxi, a representative region in China, in light of the country’s “Dual Carbo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,184 Views
16 Pages

9 June 2019

Many previous studies have shown that the volume or valence of electronic word of mouth (eWOM) has a sustainable and significant impact on box office performance. Traditional studies used quantitative data, such as ratings, to measure eWOM. However,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,744 Views
16 Pages

26 December 2020

The article discusses issues related to the circular economy ideas applied to post-industrial facilities and infrastructure in Polish coal-mining areas. The aim of the article is to indicate directions for sustainability-oriented actions on reusing t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
162 Citations
11,434 Views
18 Pages

Industrial and mining activities have been recognized as the major sources of soil heavy metal contamination. This study introduced an improved Nemerow index method based on the Nemerow and geo-accumulation index. Taking a typical industrial and mini...

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