International Journal of Mining and Mineral Engineering
- Editor in Chief
- Prof. S.J. Jung
- ISSN online
- 1754-8918
- ISSN print
- 1754-890X
- 4 issues per year
- CiteScore 1.9 (2023)
IJMME is an interdisciplinary and refereed international journal that fosters innovative solutions to the safe, efficient, and environmentally responsible exploration and extraction of mineral resources. It promotes feasible mining system design, development, and management, bringing together sustainable technologies, the people, and sound processes. It provides cross learning between various scientific and technological, as well as business and economics, disciplines.
Topics covered include
- Exploration, mine planning/design
- Drilling/blasting
- Materials handling: excavation, haulage, disposal
- Mining rock mechanics and mine ground control
- Mine drainage
- Process control/optimisation, mining systems simulation
- Artificial intelligence, knowledge based systems
- Information technologies
- Mine mechanisation, automation, robotics
- Reliability, maintenance, overall performance of mining systems
- Interaction between minerals/systems/people/other elements
- Environmental impact assessment, sustainable development
- Mineral economics, business systems
- Risk assessment/management, health/safety
- Education
Objectives
The objective of IJMME is to provide an international forum for academics, industry leaders, and policy makers to investigate and exchange novel ideas and disseminate knowledge and information covering the broad range of activities including, but not limited to, mining engineering, economics, environment, safety and health, information technologies, and management in mining and mineral engineering. In addition, it aims to establish an effective channel of communication between policy makers, government agencies, academic and research institutions and persons concerned with the complex set and behaviour of mining systems and operations. It also aims to promote and coordinate developments in the field of mining and mineral engineering. The international dimension is emphasised in order to overcome cultural and national barriers and to meet the needs of accelerating technological and ecological advances in the mineral industry and the global society and economy.Readership
IJMME provides a vehicle to help professionals, academics, researchers and policy makers, working in the fields of exploration, mining, technology management, production engineering, mineral economics, environmental assessment, and health and safety, to disseminate information and to learn from each other's work.
Contents
IJMME publishes original papers, review papers, technical reports, case studies, conference reports, management reports, book reviews, notes, commentaries, and news. Special Issues devoted to important topics in Mining and Mineral Engineering will occasionally be published.
IJMME is indexed in:
- Scopus (Elsevier)
- Compendex [formerly Ei] (Elsevier)
- Academic OneFile (Gale)
- ADS [Astrophysics Data System](Smithsonian Institution)
- Chemical Abstracts (CAS)
- cnpLINKer (CNPIEC)
- Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale)
- Google Scholar
- Info Trac (Gale)
- Inspec (Institution of Engineering and Technology)
- J-Gate
- ProQuest Advanced Technologies Database with Aerospace
IJMME is listed in:
More journal lists/directories...Editor in Chief
- Jung, S.J., University of Idaho, USA
(ijmme.editorgmail.com)
Associate Editor
- Komljenovic, Dragan, Hydro-Québec, Canada
Editorial Board Members
- Akdogan, Guven, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
- Apel, Derek, University of Alberta, Canada
- Arya, Sampurna, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA
- Delic, Edin, University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Karpuz, Celal, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
- Kecojevic, Vladislav, West Virginia University, USA
- Kolonja, Bozo, University of Belgrade, Serbia
- Mitri, Hani, McGill University, Canada
- Moser, Peter, University of Leoben, Austria
- Peng, Tiefeng, Chongqing University and Southwest University of Science and Technology, China
- Rashidi-Nejad, Farshad, University of New South Wales, Australia
- Saydam, Serkan, University of New South Wales, Australia
- Song, Wongun, Posco Research Institute, South Korea
- Tripathy, Sunil Kumar, University of Minnesota Duluth, USA
- Vardhan, Harsha, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India
- Villas-Bôas, Roberto C., CETEM/IMAAC/CYTED, Brazil
- Yang, Ruilin, Orica USA Inc., USA
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- Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written (more details available here) and the author has cleared any necessary permissions with the copyright owner if it has been previously copyrighted.
- Briefs and research notes are not published in this journal.
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Journal news
Rock-solid research for mineral froth
22 July, 2024
Research in the International Journal of Mining and Mineral Engineering introduces a new approach to controlling mineral processing that uses active sensing. This method embeds intelligence within sensor systems, significantly reducing the need for human intervention in the process to improve efficiency and precision in mineral separation processes. Even tiny improvements in efficiency can have a major economic impact on processing of ores containing copper, lead, and zinc, and even more so in the case of precious metals. Active sensing involves the integration of intelligent sensor systems that minimize human involvement by optimizing measurement processes. These systems use a combination of different measurements to put detailed information into the broader context. Primary measurements are precise but limited in range while auxiliary measurements provide broader, but more diffuse, data that can be used to guide the primary sensors to specific areas of interest that need detailed measurements. Mikko Salo, Teijo Juntunen, and Risto Ritala of Tampere University in Tampere, Finland, have looked at this approach for froth flotation, an important process used in mineral processing. Froth flotation separates minerals based on how they interact with water, their water-repellent, or hydrophobic, character. A slurry of mixed minerals and water is treated with reagents to make certain particles hydrophobic, this makes them accumulate on air bubbles and so rise to the surface as froth. This froth containing much of the mineral of interest from the slurry can be scooped off as concentrate for further purification and processing. The remaining slurry, known as tailings, flows out of the system [...]
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