Advances in Mineral Resources, Hydrogeology and Environmental Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainability in Geographic Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 October 2025 | Viewed by 880
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mineralogy; environmental mineralogy; mineral–microorganism interactions; geomicrobiology
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Interests: mineral resources; microbial remediation; solid waste recycling and processing
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Interests: energy storage materials; thermal energy storage; interfacial solar vapor generatioin; mineral materials; clay minerals
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The environment and its resources are the basis of human survival and development. Under the current concept of sustainable development, research on mineral resources, hydrogeology, and environmental sustainability has a profound impact on energy exploitation, social development, and people's lives. The traditional exploitation of mineral resources blindly consumes and wastes the limited geological resources, destroys the ecological environment in which human beings live, and ruins the natural ecological balance. Scientists must deeply understand the actual connotations of sustainable development, and under the new requirements of this concept, they must actively adjust their working ideas, change their working methods, take a long-term view, correctly understand the existing problems in the current stage of mine hydrogeological exploration and environmental geology work, and actively seek long-term and stable countermeasures.
Recently, the application of microorganisms in mineral resource exploitation and environmental protection has received more and more attention. Microbial mining technology and the environmental remediation concept, with their many advantages, such as a simple process, less investment, and less environmental pollution, are playing a significant role in this field, showing great potential to have a profound impact on human beings. However, microbial mining is not well understood for a variety of reasons, hence the need for further research into this technology.
Therefore, this Special Issue will introduce the new ideas and experimental results of the application of microbial technology in the research field of mineral resources, hydrogeology, and environmental sustainability, and explore the performance and integration of different bioremediation technologies to achieve a sustainable use of the environment and its resources.
Dr. Guiping Ren
Dr. Xinglan Cui
Dr. Xiaobin Gu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- mineral resources
- mine environmental restoration
- hydrogeology
- microbial technology
- resource sustainability
- geomicrobiology
- environmental mineralogy
- microbial metallurgy
- solid waste recycling and processing
- mineral–microorganism interactions
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