Skip to content

Mine Sustainability Modeling Research Group

Modeling, simulation and optimization for sustainability

Menu
  • Home
  • Research
  • Teaching
  • Tech transfer
  • Our Team
    • Kwame Awuah-Offei
    • Atta Ur Rehman
    • Eugene Gyawu
    • Open Position
  • Blog
  • Contact

Tag: mining

Health and safety

Eliciting Inputs from Underground Coal Miners on Interventions to Facilitate Better Self Escape: Lessons for Training

On October 12th and 13th, 2022 Eugene Gyawu, a PhD student with the MINE SUSTAINABILITY MODELING RESEARCH GROUP, gave a presentation entitled “Eliciting Inputs from Underground Coal Miners on Interventions …

Sustainability reporting

Sustainability challenges for coal extraction

Recently (October 19-20, 2022), stakeholders from industry, academia, and government gathered at Missouri University of Science & Technology’s Experimental Mine to discuss the future of coal at the inaugural Future …

Health and safety

Working with partners to improve mine emergency response: Our recent visit to the MSHA Academy and Chembio

In June 2022, Eugene Gyawu, a PhD student in our group, and I visited the MSHA Academy and Chembio‘s facilities in Beckley, WV. As you may already know, as part …

Health and safety

Evaluating Ease of Traversing by an Agile Legged Robot in Underground Environment for Miner Self-Escape

This summer, as part of Missouri University of Science & Technology’s (S&T’s) Summer Engineering Research Academy, Ms. Demetrice Parks of Fort Valley State University joined our research group as an …

Health and safety

Miner-Centered Approach to Understanding Technology Needs for Self-Escape in Underground Coal Mine Emergencies

Self-escape in underground coal mine emergencies has received much attention in recent years following the Sago mine disaster in 2006 and the Upper Big Branch mine disaster in 2010. Stakeholders …

Sustainability reporting

Relationship between sustainability performance and disclosure policies of mining companies

While mining companies have significantly improved their sustainability reporting in the last few decades, investors and other stakeholders are still concerned about the quality and quantity of sustainability disclosure. Also, …

Solar installation at Rio Tinto’s Weipa bauxite mine in Australia. Copyright: Australian Renewable Energy Agency.
Renewable integration

Challenges of integrating renewable energy into mining

Societal concern from a changing climate means the mining industry cannot continue to operate without doing its part to address climate change. Thus, decarbonization is an important consideration for mining …

Archives

  • December 2022
  • November 2022
  • September 2022
  • August 2022
  • March 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021

Categories

  • Community engagement
  • Health and safety
  • Renewable integration
  • Sustainability reporting
Copyright © 2023 Mine Sustainability Modeling Research Group – OnePress theme by FameThemes