The Journal of Mining Institute is one of the oldest leading Russian and international peer-reviewed periodicals, in which authors from all over the world publish results of fundamental and applied research in the field of Earth Sciences.
The purpose of the Journal of Mining Institute is to create a platform for open scientific polemic, research on sustainable management of global natural resources and development of relevant technologies for industrial implementation. Preference is given to the articles describing theoretical, observational and experimental studies that have cross-cutting and interdisciplinary aspects on the following topics at the field, landscape, regional or global level.
The target audience of the Journal of Mining Institute includes representatives of the expert and scientific community, academics, postgraduate students and mining engineers.
All the manuscripts received by the Journal are peer-reviewed by the leading experts in the respective research field and indexed in the international databases, including Scopus and Web of Science.
The Journal of Mining Institute contains four main sections that accept articles for publication:
- Geology
This section is presented by leading scientists and embodies major scientific fields of geologic study such as: petrology; geochemistry and geochemical methods of mineral prospecting; mineralogy and crystallography; general and regional geology; geotectonics and geodynamics; hydrogeology. All of the above explore composition, structure, origin and history of the development of the earth's crust and the Earth on the whole.
- Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology
This section focuses on the issues of subsoil use; geomechanics and mining; prospecting and extraction of minerals, including oil, gas and coal; geophysics and geodesy; aspects of geological exploration, construction and operation of mining structures, such as wells; mineral processing. Labor protection issues such as the impact of production factors and consequences of survey and exploration works on the human body and geoecology are also taken into consideration.
- Economic Geology
This section includes articles devoted to solving urgent economic problems of the functioning of the mining and fuel and energy industries. The section is open to a wide range of topics; however, any submission should have aspects of scientific novelty and practical relevance, both of which should contribute to the development of a methodology for managing national raw materials, as well as contribute to sustainable development of different branches of industry.
- Energy
This section is devoted to fundamental and applied research in the field of energy efficiency and energy saving in the mining sector at the stage of operation of enterprises and devices, and includes newly proposed efficiency criteria. It covers a wide range of research topics in the following areas: assessment of enterprises along with modern ways to increase heat and power efficiency and also energy saving; control automation of energy systems and devices; development of new evaluation criteria and more energy-efficient devices; diagnostics of energy consumers.