Category Archives: Issue 7

From Tweets to Insights: Social Opinion Mining on CSR

A recent study applies opinion mining techniques to Twitter data to assess public attitudes toward [...]

Stakeholders and CSR in Mining: Systematic Review (2018–2025)

Published in April 2025, a systematic literature review by scholars from Hang Tuah University examined [...]

From Tweets to Insights: Social Opinion Mining on CSR

In May 2025, scholars from Sapienza University and the University of Naples introduced a novel [...]

What Procedures Matter to Social Acceptance of Mining? A Conjoint Experiment in Peru

In a June 2024 study published in World Development, Okada conducted a conjoint experiment in [...]

Mining as Sustainable Development: Social License vs. State License

A May 2024 study by Vargas Salas et al. (Revista de Gestão Social e Ambiental) [...]

South Africa Field Research: Engagement in Mine Closure Context

A May 2025 study of South Africa’s Barberton gold district found that while stakeholder forums [...]

Australia Case Study: ‘Social License’ Discourse in Mining Reports

A recent study analyzing 18 sustainability reports from top Australian mining firms—like BHP, Rio Tinto, [...]

Quantitative Stakeholder Model: Discrete Choice Experiments (DCE)

In May–June 2025, a multidisciplinary team of researchers from the University of British Columbia (UBC), [...]

EU-Centric Framework: SLO Models for “Mine-of-the-Future”

In June 2025, the European Raw Materials Alliance (ERMA), in collaboration with universities in Sweden, [...]

New Theory: Social License to Automate in Mining

In May 2025, researchers from the University of Queensland’s Sustainable Minerals Institute published a working [...]