Journal
MINERALS
Volume 8, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/min8070284
Keywords
mine waste; management; sustainability; bibliometric analysis; systematic review
Funding
- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness
- European Regional Development Fund [ECO2017-82347-P, HAR2014-56428-C3-2]
- Research Plan of the University of Almeria
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Growing social awareness of the need to adequately treat mining waste in order to protect the environment has led to an increase in the research in this field. The aim of this study was to analyze the dynamics of the research focused on mining waste and its sustainable management on a worldwide scale from 1988 to 2017. A systematic review and a bibliometric analysis of 3577 articles were completed. The results show that research into mining waste has increased, with studies focusing on waste management accounting for almost 40% of the total. The most productive journals in this field were Applied Geochemistry and Science of the Total Environment. The five most productive countries were the United States, Canada, Spain, Australia, and China. Works on the sustainable management of mining waste were in the minority, but it is an area of research that has considerable potential given the growing social awareness of the environmental repercussions of mining activities and the demands for increasingly sustainable practices. The findings of this study could prove useful for studies into mine waste, as they depict a global view of this line of research.
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