Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The Journal serves as a medium for the publication of high quality scientific papers. This requires that the papers that are submitted for publication are properly and fairly refereed and edited. This process will maintain the high quality of the presentation of the paper and ensure that the technical content is in line with the accepted norms of scientific integrity.

 

Section Policies

Conference Papers

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Papers of General Interest

This section contains articles that have been submitted by authors indicidually, and will have gone throught the reviewing process.

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Journal Comment

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Dick Minnitt Special Edition

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Copper Cobalt Africa

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Diamonds 2020 Edition

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Student Edition 2019

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Digitalization

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Geometallurgy Edition

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Furnace Tapping Edition

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Deep Mining 2019

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Heavy Minerals Edition

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Student Edition 2020

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Mine Health Safety Edition

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Tailings

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Digitalisation

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SAMCODES 2020 Edition

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Mine Health Safety 2021

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Advanced Materials Edition 2021

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Student Edition 2021

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Acid Mine Drainage Edition 2021

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Rare Earths Edition

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SAMCODES 2021

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Student Edition 2022

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Tailings Edition

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Renewable Energy

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Coal Edition

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Energy Edition 2023

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PGM

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Pillar Design

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Energy

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Environmental, Social and Governance

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Data Science 2023

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Pillar Design

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Computational modelling

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Student Edition 2023

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PGM

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Mine Impacted Water

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Future Water Developments for the Mining Industry

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Student Edition 2024

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Slope Stability 2024

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Peer Review Process

The initial manuscript will be reviewed by a minimum of two referees who have been nominated by the Publications Committee. The referees will recommend acceptance, provisional acceptance with revision, or rejection. Where appropriate, the referee’s comments and suggestions will be returned to the principal author so that the paper can be revised. After revision, the paper must be returned to the Journal co-ordinator who will ensure that all the recommended changes have been carried out to the satisfaction of the referees and the Publications Committee.

 

Open Access Policy

This Journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Articles from this Journal can be submitted to institutional repositories, under the following conditions:

  1. Always upload the final publishers’ version, as published on the SciELO SA web page.
  2. Acknowledge the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (SAIMM) as the publisher.
  3. Cite the article as part of the metadata and include the DOI as part of the citation to the article.
  4. Acknowledge any funders and copyright ownership as part of the item metadata when uploading the article to the repository.