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<p>Strategic mine planning involves optimizing resource extraction to achieve economic, environmental, and social objectives. However, only a few frameworks offer a unified approach that simultaneously employs systematic indicator selection and weightless trade-off evaluation. This study addresses these issues by proposing a comprehensive framework for integrating sustainability into strategic mine planning, named SustMine. SustMine introduces two key advancements: (1) a rigorous, systematic, criteria-based process for selecting site-specific sustainable development indicators (SDIs), and (2) a weightless evaluation strategy that utilizes Pareto front analysis to construct composite indices. This allows decision-makers to identify non-dominated (optimally balanced) alternatives without relying on arbitrary or subjective weighting schemes, ensuring that trade-offs among all three dimensions are optimally balanced. A case study applying SustMine to the evaluation of 20 production schedules shows that five of these are on the Pareto optimal front. This validates SustMine’s utility in identifying robust and sustainable long-term strategies.</p>

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SustMine: A Framework for Integrating Sustainable Development Dimensions into Strategic Mine Planning

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  • 发表日期：

    2026年8月5日

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  • Hussam Altalhi,
  • Kwame Awuah-Offei,
  • Gabriel Nicolosi,
  • Abdullah Al Moinee,
  • Nasib Al Habib

摘要

Strategic mine planning involves optimizing resource extraction to achieve economic, environmental, and social objectives. However, only a few frameworks offer a unified approach that simultaneously employs systematic indicator selection and weightless trade-off evaluation. This study addresses these issues by proposing a comprehensive framework for integrating sustainability into strategic mine planning, named SustMine. SustMine introduces two key advancements: (1) a rigorous, systematic, criteria-based process for selecting site-specific sustainable development indicators (SDIs), and (2) a weightless evaluation strategy that utilizes Pareto front analysis to construct composite indices. This allows decision-makers to identify non-dominated (optimally balanced) alternatives without relying on arbitrary or subjective weighting schemes, ensuring that trade-offs among all three dimensions are optimally balanced. A case study applying SustMine to the evaluation of 20 production schedules shows that five of these are on the Pareto optimal front. This validates SustMine’s utility in identifying robust and sustainable long-term strategies.