MINE SAFETY GEOLOGY: A REVIEW

Prevention and control for mine safety is a complex systematic engineering that relates to multiple disciplines, of which the study of geological conditions and disaster mechanism is the most fundamentally important work in accident prevention and control.However, there is currently lack of a discipline or working mechanism for systematical research of safety geology.Therefore, a new cross-discipline Mine Safety Geology is proposed in this review.This paper introduces the concept, content framework, research methods, major mine safety geological issues, and risk assessment for safety geological issues in response to the needs of mine safe construction and production.Further, prospects for the key scientific problems as well as the trends for prevention and control technology that need to be solved urgently in mine safety geology are put forward.Meanwhile, this paper also briefly reviews the innovative works on mine safety geology of the main articles published in this issue with a topic of deep mine safety geology.We hope to provide a scientific support for the research on deep mine safety geology and the prevention and control of mine geological disasters