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Mine Closure & Transitions

Research Directions: Mine Closure & Transitions community supports researchers in their aim to investigate the ways in which mines are closed such that they deliver environmental, social, cultural and economic value.

Welcome to Mine Closure & Transitions

Research Directions: Mine Closure & Transitions aims to investigate the ways in which mines are closed such that they deliver environmental, social, cultural and economic value. This will include examination of how closed mine sites and related assets can be repurposed, and how to enable just transitions for mining regions and communities through closure. The community site provides a vehicle for bringing new insights to international attention, promote new methods and tools that can underpin more rapid advances, draw attention to data that challenges existing orthodoxies and encourage the sharing of novel research findings from many disciplines that are most relevant to resolving critical uncertainties.

Help Us Shape This Community

The Mine Closure & Transitions community is a space to discover and contribute to the questions shaping the field of mine closure. Find out more about the associated journal here.

If this is your field, shape this community by:

  • Submitting early or supplementary outputs, typically non-peer reviewed, that help answer the published questions. All outputs have a DOI and therefore are discoverable and citable.
  • Suggesting future questions for publication. If the advisory council and executive board accept your suggestion, you will be the author of the Question. Please use the discussion forum for this or contact us on mines@cambridge.org.
  • Discussing other researchers’ question suggestions and other researchers’ outputs in the forum.
  • Suggesting how we can make this community and the associated journal work for you by contacting us at mines@cambridge.org or via the forum.