Evaluating the impacts of the transition from open-pit to underground mining on sustainable development indexes

• Autorzy: Badakhshan Naser , Shahriar Kourosh , Afraei Sajjad , Bakhtavar Ezzeddin

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DOI

10.46873/2300-3960.1382

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Sustainable development is about creating a balance between development and environment, and it consists of three essential principles: environment, society, and economy. Today, one of the most important challenges in deep open pit mines is the transition from open pit to underground, which has positive and negative impacts on sustainable development indexes. In order to reduce these adverse impacts, the impact of various parts of the transition operation on these indexes should be evaluated, and corrective and preventive measures should be implemented. In this study, using a hybrid semi-quantitative approach, for the first time, various factors, and conditions during the transition from open pit to underground mining, and the sustainable indexes (economic, social, and environmental) sub-criteria affected by these factors and conditions were identified. After identifying various factors, conditions, and sustainable indexes sub-criteria, the positive and negative effects of various factors of the transition from open pit to underground mining on sustainable development indexes were evaluated. The obtained results showed that the transition in the Songun copper mine has the greatest impact on the economic index of sustainable development, with a value of 67.72 percent. In addition, the amount of impact of transition in this mine on the environmental and social index is 41.74 and 39.84 percent, respectively. In the meantime, the most significant impact was determined on components such as production rate and productivity, mine life, operation and capital cost, mineral value and income per ton of ore, mine closure (and reclamation) cost, Initial investment rate of returns, post-mining land use type.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

open-pit to underground mining; sustainable development; AHP method; TOPSIS method

PL

od górnictwa odkrywkowego do podziemnego; zrównoważony rozwój; metoda AHP; metoda TOPSIS

• Wydawca: Elsevier ; Główny Instytut Górnictwa
• Czasopismo: Journal of Sustainable Mining
• Rocznik: 2023
• Tom: Vol. 22. iss. 2
• Strony: 155--168
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 17 poz.

Twórcy

autor

Badakhshan Naser

• Amirkabir University of Technology, Department of Mining Engineering, Iran

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8716-2357

autor

Shahriar Kourosh

• Amirkabir University of Technology, Department of Mining Engineering, Iran

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8561-6984

autor

Afraei Sajjad

• Amirkabir University of Technology, Department of Mining Engineering, Iran

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8487-5928

autor

Bakhtavar Ezzeddin

• Urmia University of Technology, Faculty of Mining and Materials Engineering, Iran

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9524-2229

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Uwagi

PL

Opracowanie rekordu ze środków MNiSW, umowa nr SONP/SP/546092/2022 w ramach programu "Społeczna odpowiedzialność nauki" - moduł: Popularyzacja nauki i promocja sportu (2024).