Authors: S.A. Zhironkin, M.E. Konovalova, E.A. Gasanov, F.N. Abu-Abed, Tingting Hu

Title of the article: Mining 6.0 and post-mining

Year: 2025, Issue: 4, Pages: 157-168

Branch of knowledge: 2.8.8 Geotechnology, mining machines

Index UDK: 622.235

DOI: 10.26730/1999-4125-2025-4-157-168

Abstract: The article examines the role of digital technologies of Industry 6.0 in the development of post-mining – a system for restoring the natural ecosystem, infrastructure and socio-and-economic activity in clusters of intensive extraction of solid minerals upon completion of the operation of the entire deposit or its individual sections. The authors identified the problems accompanying the fading of the exploitation of mineral deposits, as well as the risks arising from the closure of mining enterprises, as the subject of post-mining. The place of post-mining in the production cycle of modern mining enterprises is also shown. The digital technologies that form the nature-centric platform of Mining 6.0 are presented, their continuity with the technologies of human-centric Industry 5.0 and business-centric Industry 4.0 is revealed – cognitive computing and intuitive interfaces, visual-language models, cloud and generative artificial intelligence, machine vision and learning, digital twins, as well as convergent biochemical technologies. The tasks and methods of post-mining, as well as the components of the strategy for its implementation, are defined. The paper shows the ways of implementing Mining 6.0 technologies in the post-mining system, including the analysis of big data in the field of the state of the surface, subsoil, water and forest resources in the mining cluster, the use of neural networks and machine learning for scenario modeling of a set of measures for ecosystem revitalization and restoration of socio-economic activity, the introduction of biochemical technologies for recycling secondary mineral raw materials, inspection of reclamation and revitalization processes based on blockchain.

Key words: post-mining Mining 60 nature-centric mining recycling

Receiving date: 10.04.2025

Approval date: 22.06.2025

Publication date: 28.08.2025

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