Editor-in-Chief: Professor Adam Smoliński
Journal of Sustainable Mining (ISSN 2300-3960) is an international, scholarly, peer-reviewed and open access journal. This journal casts a new light on the wide range of issues surrounding mining that are impacting its sustainability. It brings together wide-ranging approaches, globally, in order to develop a forum for discussion of mining practices, always with an eye towards their impact on sustainability and efficiency. Journal of Sustainable Mining is published quarterly online by Central Mining Institute – National Research Institute (Główny Instytut Górnictwa – Państwowy Instytut Badawczy, GIG-PIB) and hosted on Digital Commons, an Elsevier platform.
Read MoreCurrent Issue: Volume 25, Issue 2 (2026)
Research Articles
Wettability evaluation via contact angle and data mining for enhanced oil recovery
Syasya Wadihah Md. Ja’afar and Bashir Busahmin
Feasibility study of barite sourcing from sediments emerging due to treatment of waste water from coal mining
Hubert Makuła, Zbigniew Bzowskia, and Bogusław Michalika
Improving energy reliability in mining areas through modelling and control of resonance phenomena in solar-integrated power systems
Yurii Papaika, Gennadiy Pivnyak, Maksim Malyshko, Yuliya Pazynich, Natalia Howaniec, and Adam Smolinski
A method to accelerate rock breakage with soundless chemical demolition agents
Patrick A. Darko and Hani S. Mitri
Image processing technique to find the burden rock velocity and its interdependency on bench blasting parameters – a case study
Channabassamma N, Akhil Avchar, Sahas V Swamy, Vedala Rama Sastry, and Hemant Agrawale
Review
Research status and development trend of acidification and permeability improvement technology for low-permeability coal seam
Shaochuan Chen, Yun Lei, Fuchao Tian, and Jie Kang