Continuous exploitation in mining areas damages the surrounding environment and has various severe geological impacts. Hence, long-term monitoring of mining areas is crucial to reducing these impacts.

This appendix presents additional details on the individual processes that are involved in extraction of coal from surface and underground mines, and the subsequent beneficiation of the coal in coal ...

The increasing requirements of mineral resource production and mining operations have escalated mine production safety issues due to the stress induced by mining activities 1,2,3. This is particularly ...

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A five-year test programme on an innovative mining method that could potentially be used to access high-grade orebodies that are either too small or too deep to be mined economically using ...