Exploring the Mine Environment, Safety Risk and Occupational Health

Dear Colleagues,

Mineral resources play an important role in supporting world economic and social development. However, mining activity, especially in relation to underground mining, is considered to be one of the causes of the most accidents, fatalities, and diseases in the world. Every year, thousands of miners die in mining operations. There are several causes for the occurrence of accidents, including the release of toxic gases, collapses of mine openings, coaldust explosions, etc. In addition, mining activities also cause pollution to the surrounding environment, such as soil pollution, water pollution, air pollution, and so on. Mining can pollute the environment, which also poses a risk to human health. Therefore, in the process of mining, transportation, and storage, how to reduce the impact of mining activities on the surrounding environment and reduce the occurrence of accidents and occupational diseases is an urgent problem that needs to be solved. However, knowledge about the environmental, safety and health risks associated with mines is still limited. There is an immediate need to come up with good research methods and look into the above problems. This Special Issue aims to explore the latest developments on these issues and attempts to provide a comprehensive perspective. We invite researchers to contribute original research and articles as well as review articles in the scope of this Special Issue that introduce new technologies and solutions related to the field of mining health and safety. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Safety risk and occupational health in synergetic mining;
• Safe production and smart mining;
• Safe and sustainable mining technology;
• Smart, green mining;
• Mine safety monitoring;
• Safety issues in sustainable mine construction;
• New trends in safe mining;
• Environmental exposure and occupational contact;
• Mine safety and personnel health;
• Ecological survey and restoration of mining areas;
• Mine pollution remediation;
• Probabilistic techniques in mining safety;
• Mining safety and intelligent methodologies.

Dr. Chengyu Xie
Dr. Jian Zhou
Dr. Danial Jahed Armaghani
Prof. Dr. Qingfa Chen
Dr. Wei Pan
Topic Editors