Co-Editors-In-Chief
Professor Thomas Baumgartl - Federation University, Australia
Professor Guy Boggs - CRC for Transformations in Mining Economies/University of Western Australia
Executive Editors
Actively being recruited.
Dr Jeffrey Jacquet - Ohio State University, USA
Professor Arn Keeling - Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Professor Keeling's research focuses on the historical and contemporary encounters of Indigenous communities in Northern Canada with large-scale resource developments; the environmental legacies of mining; and the socio-economic aspects of mine closure and reclamation.
Professor Anna Littleboy - University of Queensland, Australia
For more than 35 years, Professor Anna Littleboy has led multidisciplinary and collaborative research understanding the role of minerals in global sustainability challenges and its adaptation to the widespread changes arising from climate change, mine closure and the energy transition. With a background in earth and environmental science and an interest in innovation, Anna integrates strategy and technologists with social and environmental scientists to drive better environmental and social performance from the minerals sector in the interests of human development.
Professor Lochner Marais - University of the Free State, South Africa
Lochner Marais is a Professor of Development Studies at the Centre for Development Support at the University of the Free State (UFS). He is also an honorary professor at the Sustainable Minerals Institute (University of Queensland, Australia). His recent research focuses on the relationship between mining, housing policy and mine closure. He is passionate about creating and managing interdisciplinary projects and prefers research on real-world problems.
Dr Fabio Perlatti - National Mining Agency, Brazil
Dr. Perlatti is involved in works and scientific research on themes related to Environmental Geochemistry, Ecological Engineering and Biodiversity in mining areas, in addition to studies for repurposing the use of mining tailings/wastes, in search of more sustainable uses for these materials in the closure and rehabilitation of mines. He currently leads a working group to update public policies for the implementation of a regulatory framework for the mine closure/post-closure and abandoned/legacy mines in Brazil.
Editorial Board
Actively being recruited.
Dr José F. Martín Duque - Complutense University of Madrid
Dr Duque conducts research in the field of the application of scientifically based geomorphological solutions for the resolution of environmental problems, fundamentally geomorphological restoration of mining areas.
Dr Mansour Edraki - University of Queensland, Australia
Professor Fiona Haslam-Mckenzie - The University of Western Australia
Dr Sarah Holcombe - University of Queensland, Australia
Dr Tommi Kauppila - Geological Survey of Finland
Dr Kauppila is currently Research Professor of Mine and Industrial Environments at the Circular Economy Solutions Unit of the Geological Survey of Finland (GTK). He has worked at GTK since 2001 and served as Chief Scientist for the Environmental Impact and Eco-efficient Mining Research Topics. His research interests include mine closure management, sustainable mining issues, design-based circularity for mining projects, environmental risk assessment methods for mining operations and surface water impacts of mining.
Professor Mustafa Kumral - McGill University, Canada
Dr. Kumral is currently a Professor in the Department of Mining and Materials Engineering at McGill University. He has over 20 years of experience in mining engineering research and teaching. He is the principal investigator of the Mineral Economics, Mine Reliability and Asset Management Laboratory at McGill University. His research and teaching include mineral economics, mine planning and design, asset management, and mining sustainability.
Professor Andrzej Polus - University of Wroclaw, Poland
Prof. Andrzej Polus works as a professor at the Institute of International Studies, University of Wroclaw. He is the former president of the Polish Center for African Studies. His research work focuses on the political economy of hydrocarbons management and the current political situation in Sub-Saharan Africa. In his work, he also looks for paradoxes in international relations theories.
Dr Anita Punia - University of Delhi, India
Dr Punia's research interests are mining pollution, environmental geochemistry and climate change.
Professor Thierry Rodon - Laval University, Canada
Dr Christos Roumpos – Public Power Corporation, Greece
Dr. Christos Roumpos has over 30 years of industrial experience in many mining engineering, environmental, and energy economics fields and research projects and over 20 years of academic experience in mining engineering, mineral economics, and related courses. His main professional and research interests include planning, simulation, economics, and optimisation of mining projects. He emphasises an integrated approach to mining engineering and closure planning projects based on circular economy and sustainability principles.
Dr Kamila Svobodova - University of Göttingen, Germany
Kamila Svobodova is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the University of Göttingen and an Associate Professor at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague. Drawing from her background in environmental engineering and urban planning, her expertise is centered around the social and ecological complexities associated with mining. Through her work, Kamila addresses the multifaceted aspects of mine closure and community transition, advocating for holistic and collaborative approaches in planning for post-mining alternatives.
Professor Sophie Thériault - University of Ottawa, Canada
Sophie Thériault (LL.B; LL.M.; LL.D.) is a full professor in the Faculty of Law (Civil Law Section), at the University of Ottawa. Professor Thériault’s research focuses on Indigenous peoples’ rights in the context of natural resource extraction (particularly mining), Indigenous environmental governance, and environmental rights and justice.
Advisory Council
Actively being recruited.
Dr Jan Bondaruk - Central Mining Institute, Poland
Dr Bondaruk is Deputy Director for Environmental Engineering in GIG. He is an expert in the field of environmental engineering, sustainable development, energy sector and regional transition. Jan's research interests embrace environmental protection programming and management on urban spaces, sustainable and just transition of mining regions, evidence–based valorization, revitalization, and repurposing of post-mining areas and assets, new business models, circular economy and RES technologies including post-extractive mining infrastructure, mine water management.
Professor Caroline Digby - University of Cape Town, South Africa
Kia Dowell - Indigenous Business Australia
Dr Emma Gagen - International Council on Mining and Metals, UK
Dr Emma Gagen has 10 years applied research experience as an environmental microbiologist, focusing on biotechnology approaches to accelerate sustainability in the mining industry. Her research has focused on biogeochemical processes, re-forming surface crusts in iron ore areas, addressing topsoil deficits in coal mine rehabilitation and other microbe-mineral interactions that are relevant for biotechnology and environmental sustainability in the mining industry.
Peter Harvey - Rio Tinto, UK
Dr Richard Jackson - Sustainable Minerals Institute, Australia
Dr Jackson's research interests include the socioeconomic impacts of the mining industry and the sustenance of project benefits post-closure; and finding ways to make research findings readable by and accessible to employees in the community affairs areas of the mining industry. He taught at Oxford, Makerere University [Uganda], University of Papua New Guinea and James Cook University. He undertook field research in Ethiopia and in Madagascar on rural development and marketing. On arrival in Papua New Guinea in 1972 he accidentally became involved in the mining industry and has focused his academic research on the industry's impacts ever since then. Dissatisfied with simply undertaking critiques of the industry's practices, he resigned from academia in 1997 and became a full-time mining consultant based in the Philippines and working across southeast Asia.
Dr Nadja Kunz - The University of British Columbia, Canada
Dr Nadja Kunz is Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Mine Water Management and Stewardship, jointly appointed across the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and the Norman B Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering at the University of British Columbia. The overarching goal of Nadja’s research program at UBC is to quantify and mitigate the risks associated with the mining sector’s use of water from the perspective of diverse actors including companies, investors, governments, Indigenous rights-holders and communities.
Professor Tom Measham - CRC for Transformations in Mining Economies, Australia
Professor Tom Measham is a human geographer focused on regional communities, the resources sector and economic transition.
Nalaine Morin - ArrowBlade Consulting Services, Canada
Dr Thakane Ntholi - Council for Geoscience, South Africa
Mike O'Kane - Okane Consultants, Canada
Mike O’Kane (M.Sc., MAusIMM, P.Eng. GCB.D), is the founder of Okane Consultants, has over 35 years of experience, and works with the company as a senior technical advisor applying subject matter expertise in the areas of unsaturated zone hydrology, cover system and landform design, and integrated mine closure planning while using his knowledge on risk management best practices as tools for development and communication of project objectives and designs.
Jeff Parshley - SRK Consulting, USA
Dr James Purtill - Queensland Mine Rehabilitation Commissioner, Australia
Dr Rob Stevens - Pakawau Geomanagement Inc., Canada
Carl Weatherell - Canada Mining Innovation Council, Canada