The concept of mining or extracting valuable metals and minerals from technospheric stocks
is referred to as technospheric mining. As potential secondary sources of valuable materials …

Run-of-mine ore is usually too large to be useful for construction or metallurgy. Large
particles must be reduced to specific sizes to either comply with aggregate sizing …

The aim of this article is to perform an environmental impact assessment of the air pollution
emissions from the mining and quarrying sectors of European countries by applying the life …

This paper presents a novel approach to environmental assessment of coal mining
operations, which enables assessment of the factors that are both directly and indirectly …

The sustainable development of an organisation requires a holistic approach to the
evaluation of an enterprise's goals and activities. The essential means enabling an …

The aim of the research was to develop an integrated model and assess the level of
sustainable development of hard coal mining industry in Poland. The analyzes were …

Eco-efficiency enhancement is an inherent requirement of green development and an
important indicator of high-quality development in general. It aims to achieve the …

Eco-efficiency is often considered an adequate response to the problem of the scarcity of
non-renewable resources. Even if a more eco-efficient use of natural resources cannot …

Modelling eco-efficiency is becoming a wide field of research shown by a large body of
scientific literature on the subjects concerned. This paper, after performing a systematic …

This paper presents a model combining the LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) of fossil fuel
extraction with its quality parameters and related CO2, SO2 and dust emissions at the stage …