Track: Sustainability

Abstract

The mining sector has been facing the most difficult challenges from its beginning. To address these challenges, industry must engage all stakeholders to address their sustainability concerns. This study has focused the mineral industry of Pakistan. Despite having such massive deposits, such as the world’s second-largest coal reserves, the second-largest salt mines, and the fifth largest copper and gold reserves, the mining industry of Pakistan is not performing to the fullest. Recent surveys reveal a decline in growth of 8.82% in 2020 compared with 3.19% in 2019. Systematic literature review by inserting different keywords like “sustainable indicators” sustainability in mining” “sustainable mining” in google scholar were carried. Five main indicators with 33 sub indicators for environmental sustainability were finalized. Four main indicators with 19 sub indicators for social sustainability and at last three major indicators with 18 sub indicators for economic sustainability were categorized.