Upcoming Events

The 7th International Symposium on Mine Safety Science and Engineering (ISMSSE 2024) will be held in Pittsburgh, USA, from August 17 to 21, 2024. In this symposium, researchers and experts are invited from around the world in the field of mine safety science and engineering and related fields to share new concepts, methodologies, and emerging technologies and exhibit technical equipment in the field of mine safety science and engineering. Experts and scholars, including academia, industry, scientific research institutes, governments, and enterprises, are welcome to participate in the symposium.

Abstracts will be accepted until April 1, 2024. For more information, please visit: https://sites.psu.edu/ismsse/

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Mines of the Future

SOMP members Professors Serkan Saydam, Bruce Hebblewhite, Michael Karmis and Michael Hitch recently finalised the “Mines of the Future” project. This report aimed to produce a high quality, internationally focused reference report and established an editorial committee which invited academic and industry thinkers, and technologists to contribute to the report. The report provides a vision of the mines of the future, for 2030 and beyond, and the impacts on required skills and future educational curricula and research needs. The Mines of the Future report has five main chapters, with the topics in each chapter focusing on the Current Status, the Future, and Transitioning to the Future: Operational Efficiency; Novel Mining Systems; Sustainable Mining Practices; Education and Research.

The Mines of the Future Version 1.0 (Major Findings) Report is expected to be a leading international reference for the future – primarily for mining educators and researchers, but also for other mining industry stakeholders such as mining companies, equipment suppliers, governments and other interested parties. This report includes the major findings of the comprehensive report which will be available later in 2019 separately.

Click here to download a copy of the report.