
Izhar Mithal JiskaniAalborg University · Department of Sustainability and Planning
Izhar Mithal Jiskani
PhD (Mining Engineering)
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Introduction
Izhar Mithal Jiskani is an experienced educator and researcher dedicated to advancing safe, green, and climate-smart mining practices, particularly in support of the green energy revolution. He has held significant roles such as Head of Department (Mining and Mineral Resources), Assistant Professor, Postdoc, Lecturer, and Mining Engineer. His commitment lies in driving positive change in the mining industry.
Additional affiliations
September 2021 - June 2023
March 2023 - June 2023
March 2016 - July 2016
Muadinoon Mining Company
Position
- Engineer
Description
- Production Planning, Project Management
Education
October 2017 - June 2021
February 2009 - March 2016
Publications
Publications (67)
Sustainability has always been a core concern in the mining industry because the exploitation of mineral resources poses adverse impacts on the environment and society. As a result, the industry is seeking spectacular progress to foster sustainable mining practices that can enable it to be financially viable, environmentally friendly, and socially...
Green and climate-smart mining (GCSM) can transform the traditional mining system into a more sustainable pattern by conserving the environment, reducing the ecological footprint, and promoting cleaner mineral production. Being a burgeoning concept, GCSM needs to be clearly defined and adequately understood to make it happen on a strategic scale. T...
Green and climate smart mining (GCSM) is a recent advancement in mining that not only alleviates the exacerbating environmental and climate-related impacts but also protects the well-being of the communities in the mining regions. However, there is still a long way to transform current mining practices into GCSM due to many challenges hampering its...
Cleaner energy production relies on the sustainable supply of critical minerals. Ensuring a constant supply of these minerals is integral to cleaner energy initiatives. The majority of global green energy initiatives rely on minerals mined in developing countries. However, there are challenges in fulfilling the ever growing demands to supply minera...
The global transition to cleaner energy sources intensifies pressure on the mining industry to secure the supply of energy transition minerals. However, fulfilling the demands of climate-driven technologies must not compromise critical factors such as health, safety, production efficiency, and the environmental and climatic impacts of mineral extra...
Despite global initiatives towards green energy, coal remains a vital energy source, and the environmental repercussions of its extraction, especially in small-scale operations, are not thoroughly understood. The objective of this study is to address the pressing environmental impacts associated with small-scale coal mining in the context of develo...
Dust pollution from Chinese open-pit coal mines (OPCMs) threatens the coexistence of resource development and environmental protection. This research introduces a new approach to designing OPCMs based on meteorological indicators for dust removal and diffusion. It analyzes the production, distribution, and dust emission features of large-scale OPCM...
Using a combination of experimental and numerical methods, this study examines the stability of the slope of Waste Dump#1 in Ziluoyi Iron Mine. We conducted direct shear tests on soil samples taken from the waste dump, which provided important insights into slope stability. The tests identified key mechanical parameters, including an average cohesi...
Air pollution emanating from both human activities and natural phenomena, is a pervasive and critical issue that affects everyone. In mining, particularly concerning is the detrimental impact of dust contamination, which not only compromises air quality but also jeopardizes sustainability. In order to establish effective measures for preventing and...
Purpose
With the rapid low-carbon transformation in China, the industrial approach and labor structure of mining enterprises are undergoing constant changes, leading to an increasing psychological dilemma faced by coal miners. This study aims to reveal the relationship and mechanism of factors influencing the psychological dilemma of miners, and to...
Amidst the transition from rapid growth to high-quality development in the surface mining industry, mine dust remains a severe public health and safety issue. This study introduces a novel approach that combines mine production intensity with meteorological conditions to enable accurate daily prediction of dust concentration in open-pit mines. To a...
Mine dust pollution poses a hindrance to achieving green and climate-smart mining. This paper uses weather forecast data and mine production intensity data as model inputs to develop a novel model for forecasting daily dust concentration values in open pit mines by employing and integrating multiple machine learning techniques. The results show tha...
This study investigated soil development resulting from revegetation in a coal mining area in northern Henan, China. The effectiveness of six distinct revegetation methods for reclaiming mine-degraded lands was assessed. These methods employed various species such as Ulmus pumila, Amorpha fruticosa, Robinia pseudoacacia, Jerusalem artichoke, and Se...
Delays are a pervasive challenge in the global construction industry, requiring more consideration to address project failure. This research proposes an improved methodology for analysing delays in the construction industry. Through a literature review, a set of 85 delay factors was identified and classified into five categories aligned with the va...
Citation: Ali, M.; Khan, N.M.; Gao, Q.; Cao, K.; Jahed Armaghani, D.; Alarifi, S.S.; Rehman, H.; Jiskani, I.M. Abstract: This research offers a combination of experimental and artificial approaches to estimate the dilatancy point under different coal conditions and develop an early warning system. The effect of water content on dilatancy point was...
The prospect of subsurface structures taking uncontrollable fire is a significant cause of stress held by people from all over the world. Mine fires and explosions have caused
countless casualties and material losses for decades. A fire in a mine has the ability to rapidly contaminate the air of the entire mine, which might result in the loss of li...
Experts are increasingly interested in incorporating environmental and climate action into all projects. Mining projects face a broader range of environmental concerns. Since most mines nowadays rely on blasting operations, a considerable volume of dust is released into the atmosphere. The environmentally destructive mining practices contradict the...
Open-pit mining is a common method for extracting coal, but considerable resources are often left unrecovered at the bottom of end-slopes, leading to a permanent waste of resources. This research presents a sustainable approach of multi-layer highwall mining at different levels to address the issue of abundant resources left unrecovered at the bott...
Dust is a severe environmental issue in open-pit mines, and accurate estimation of its concentration allows for viable solutions for its control and management. This research proposes a machine learning-based solution for accurately estimating dust concentrations. The proposed approach, tested using real data from the Haerwusu open-pit coal mine in...
Slope engineering is a type of complex system engineering that is mostly involved in water conservancy and civil and mining engineering. Moreover, the link between slope stability and engineering safety is quite close. This study took the stable state of the slope as the prediction object and used the unit weight, cohesion, internal friction angle,...
The pressure slope toe support of the inner dump bench can reduce the deformation of the end-slope after steep end-slope mining, and the bench parameters are vital for the stability of the end-slope. This research proposes a discrete–continuous coupling calculation method and establishes the gradation curves of laboratory tests and simulations empl...
Accurate and quantitative investigation of the physical structure and fractal geometry of coal has important theoretical and practical significance for coal bed methane (CBM) development and the prevention of dynamic disasters such as coal and gas outbursts. This study investigates the pore structure and fractal characteristics of soft and hard coa...
Dust pollution is a critical challenge in achieving green mining of open-pit coal mines. The scientific basis for dust prevention and management hinges on a thorough understanding of the long-term characteristics of dust pollution. However, analyzing the characteristics of long-term dust pollution in open-pit coal mines has always been a void in re...
Surface mining is vulnerable and subject to a wide range of risks, requiring extensive risk analysis to ensure mine health and safety (MHS). Fault tree analysis (FTA) is a graphic representation tool for conducting safety and reliability analyses by modeling causal chains that lead to failures. However, conventional FTA cannot deal with uncertain a...
This study determines the safety-stability factors of the waste dump benches at different heights and analyses the deformation law, stress variation, and crack propagation characteristics of typical slope models. The meso-mechanical parameters obtained by discrete element numerical simulation are modified through slope radar monitoring data. The re...
Coal mines in the Pingdingshan mining region, Henan, China, are prone to severe and high-frequency outbursts that affect production and threaten the miners’ lives. The high gas content and pressure in the coal seams of Pingdingshan No. 6 Mine are the key factors causing frequent outburst accidents. This research studied the influence of gas on the...
Safety commitment is a key factor determining the stability of miners' safe behavior. This study explored safety commitments from the perspective of personnel traits and social networks, extending previous studies on single individual safety commitments. A case survey of social networks, personality traits, and the safety commitment level of six wo...
The mining industry around the world is plagued by environmental concerns associated with the exploitation and utilization of mineral resources, as well as the economic issues caused by resource depletion. With the increasing awareness of these issues and the urge to realize the goal of green transformation on the road to sustainable development, g...
The application of traditional dust reduction methods in surface mines is limited, particularly during winter due to long-term drought and a rainless environment. Therefore, it is essential to investigate dust pollution in cold region mines and get insights into its scientific prevention and control. This research analyzed dust pollution (concentra...
This study explores the multiple organizational relationships between frontline miners, managers, and supervisors to reveal the human organizational risks of coal mine safety and health management. Data were collected from six high-risk rock burst underground mining companies operating in western, central, north-eastern, and south-eastern regions o...
In terms of coal’s stability and failure, soaking time and water content play a significant role in geotechnical engineering practice. To determine the soaking time effect on the mechanical behavior of coal samples and the response of AE (acoustic emission) signal throughout loading, the samples with different soaking times (0–120 hours (h)) were p...
A thorough improvement in mine safety is contingent on many factors that require scientific decision-making for selection and prioritizing of important factors for safety improvement. Their analysis using an established scientific method can improve mines' safety conditions and assist the administration for informed decision-making. This research e...
Purpose. To analyze the coupling effect between composite slope geometrical parameters. Methods. The slope angle and excavation depth are coupled with load which is waste dump in this case. Several models were created and analyzed to capture their coupling effect and interactions using FLAC/Slope. Findings. When the slope angle and excavation depth...
The particulate pollution in the open-pit coal mines of China is particularly severe in winter. The aim of this study is to understand the pollution characteristics of particulate matter (PM) in winter and provide a basis for the prevention and control of particulate pollution. We took the problem of PM concentration at the bottom of the Haerwusu O...
Smart mining involves the application of intelligent technologies that can greatly improve the quality of mining by enhancing high production, improved safety of operations, sustainable environmental management, and effective mine communication. The world is campaigning for sustainable utilization and exploitation of mineral resources by zero waste...
This study presents different land saving and loss reducing schemes. Comprehensively compare the economic benefits of the schemes. It is shown that the optimal scheme can recover tons of coal resources on the south slope, creating significant economic benefits. Numerical simulation was utilized to analyze the changes of slope stability, deformation...
This research proposes a new dust reduction method based on water infusion blasting in order to effectively minimize the dust production during blasting in open-pit mines. The proposed method was applied at the Haerwusu open-pit coal mine, China. A high-speed camera was used to record the dynamic process of dust generation during blasting. The imag...
This research proposes a new dust reduction method based on water infusion blasting in order to effectively minimize the dust production during blasting in open-pit mines. The proposed method was applied at the Haerwusu open-pit coal mine, China. A high-speed camera was used to record the dynamic process of dust generation during blasting. The imag...
In this work, we employ the fuzzy logic technique to achieve and present, for the first time, a proper analysis of the actual intensity of the increase in the coal miners’ fatality rates in Pakistan from 2010 to 2018, compared with China and India, with an objective to minimize the impact of incidents on the miners’ fatalities. The average and year...
The hysteresis of water-sediment mixture seepage in rock fractures is one of the critical factors which affect the determination of the timing of coal mine water inrush disasters prevention and control. In this paper, a mechanical model was established to study the hysteresis whose criteria were also put forward. The area of the hysteresis loop and...
In the mining sector, the barrier to obtain an efficient safety management system is
the unavailability of future information regarding the accidents. This paper aims to use
the auto-regressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model, for the first time, to
evaluate the underlying causes that affect the safety management system
corresponding to...
The coal mining, being highly susceptible to accidents and fatalities, is considered amongst the most dangerous occupations. Historically, Pakistan has faced an alarmingly high rate of coal mine disasters. There is a general lack of country-wide data and subsequent research on the fatalities of coal miners in Pakistan. In this study, a multimodel s...
Understanding the creep behaviours of rocks is essential for the long-term stability of underground excavations in mining engineering. Creep behaviours are more important when the mining depth is greater, which leads to the emergence of weak rock masses and high in situ stresses. In this study, the creep behaviours of argillaceous sandstone (AS) we...
Lack of strategic planning in the mining and mineral industry (MMI) of Pakistan remains the core issue impeding the development of the industry. This study proposes and, respectively, prioritizes future strategies based on strengths-weaknesses-opportunities threats (SWOT) analysis. The proposed strategies aim to foster the sustainable development o...
The purpose of this study was to assess miners’ perceptions about the safety climate of their workplace. To achieve the research aim, the relationship between demographic characteristics and occupational hazards was first determined, and finally, the relationship of safety climate with occupational hazards and health-seeking behavior was discovered...
Green mining is the latest technological advancement to reduce mining’s environmental impact with minimal energy and resource consumption. Green mining — aimed at protecting nature and providing socio-economic benefits — is a multifaceted network of its connotations and key indicators. China has not yet defined its connotation and formed an effecti...
This study evaluated the physical and environmental working conditions of underground coal mines and the occurrence of musculoskeletal symptoms (MSS). The data from 236 miners were collected and analyzed by using the Chi-squared test, Fisher’s exact test, and the Mann–Whitney U test. Results showed that mine design was inappropriate (e.g., lack of...
Mine health and safety is considered to be one of the fundamental determinants of sustainable mining. The purpose of this study was to analyze the severity of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) and to investigate the influence of psychosocial factors on its development. The data from 252 coal miners was collected through a self-administered questionn...
The idea of green mining was proposed as a practical approach to make the mining industry more sustainable than before. Green mining is a contemporary mining model centered on the sustainability of resources, environment, and socioeconomic benefits. Its purpose is to develop and apply technologies and processes that increase environmental performan...
The mining industry faces intractable barriers to sustainable development that arise from a number of risks that must be assessed and managed. Therefore, it is necessary to figure out specific risks and conduct follow-up risk evaluation. Since mining is inevitably endemic with risks, risk assessment could enable the industry to deal with the risks...
The concept of green mining is to improve the mining industry in a holistic way so that it is safe, efficient, and environmentally sustainable. The purpose of this study was to develop an evaluation index system of green surface mining based on the theory of green grades. The evaluation model is comprised of three attributes (safety, efficiency, an...
The concept of mine safety is highlighted in the literature of sustainable mining but not extensively discussed. This study analyzes various aspects of underground and surface mine safety and emphasizes its importance in the context of sustainable mining. More specifically, this research attempts to find the relationship between mine hazards and de...
Purpose: Gas explosion in the underground coal mines of Pakistan is the main source of coal miner’s mortalities. The purpose of this article is to analyze the main causes of gas explosion in the underground coal mines of Pakistan.
Methods: The study employs the Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) to understand the key root causes that lead to system failure...
In the process of open-pit excavation and stacking of dump along the side wall, the rock mass inside the composite slope undergoes complicated loading and unloading effect, which are manifested as triaxial stress → horizontal unloading → axial loading. In this study, a corresponding mechanical model of crack propagation in composite slope under loa...
Faults are the most critical tectonic factors in geological structures, which have major economic impacts on mining economics. Thus it is necessary to understand faults in order to identify the actual risks and complications associated with mining. In the preliminary investigation of the Sonda-Jherruck coalfield, 3D geological modeling was not perf...
Mineral production is the mainstay of the global economy. Pakistan has huge mineral resources potential, but the contribution of minerals to the gross domestic product is not commensurate with its potential. The main reasons for the unregulated nature of the mining sector are poor organizational structure, inadequate implementation of legislation,...
Mining is considered one of the dangerous and risk involving industries of the world. When considering the underground coal mining, it is unique in its health and safety issues. Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) are one of the major rising issues in the mining industry. Many countries have developed their regulations and framework to overcome this r...
Despite being one of the largest coal fields in Pakistan, the Sonda-Jherruck coal resource is yet to be exploited. Exploration studies were done between 1981–1989 by the Geological Survey of Pakistan (GSP) and the United States Geological Survey (USGS). While much exploratory data is available, computer-aided geological modeling has not been carrie...
surface mining methods; open pit planning and design; open pit terminology; stripping ratio; factors governing strip mining; calculation of overburden ratio; initial data collection checklist; planning phase; orebody description; ore reserve calculation; geometrical considerations
Worker safety in underground coal mines has always remained a challenging task. Several fatal and non-fatal accidents take place worldwide resulting in casualties and injuries of coal miners. Lack of monitoring of mine environment and working of human and machine in close proximity to each other leads to severe accidents. Study aims to develop a we...
Analysis of coal before its use is the most important. Evaluation of Lakhra coal was carried out with particular reference to the wet separation of coal in this regard the characteristics of physical cleaning of Lakhra coal have been determined by heavy medium separation method i.e. Sink and Float process, the process is guided by comminution (crus...
Utilization of Indigenous coal is getting more importance; keeping in view the reduction in fossil fuel reserves. The international rate of coal is increasing day by day and when the cost of transportation and distribution is added, it will cost higher than the present price in the country. The advancements in processing of Indigenous coal had made...