SRK Consulting (UK) Limited (SRK) is an associate company of the international group holding company, SRK Consulting (Global). SRK provides a comprehensive range of consulting services to the resource industry. Consulting services are for mineral resource projects ranging from exploration, development and exploitation through to closure, and in the fields of geology, mining, infrastructure, bio...

Purpose is to substantiate foundations of sustainable management mineral resources while implementing a circular economy model. Methods. The study has applied following research approaches: synthetic method (unification the singled out aspects); induction (analysis features); life cycle assessment (evaluation product influence on environment from viewpoint each stage its cycle); toolkit (determ...

We use a genetic algorithm to calibrate a spatially and temporally resolved cellular automata to model mining activity on public land in Idaho and western Montana. The genetic algorithm searches through a space of transition rule parameters of a two dimensional cellular automata model to find rule parameters that fit observed mining activity data. Previous work by one of the authors in calibrat...