Preface

The M. S. Poliakov Institute of Geotechnical Mechanics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine has organized and arranged the V International Scientific Conference "The Essays on Mining Science and Practice" at November 6-8, 2024. The Conference has been held under the aegis of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The subject of the Conference covers the latest scientific achievements in the most relevant areas of the development of mining science. Scientific Committee members are: Scientific Committee Chair - an Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Prof., Dr. Anatolii Bulat, M. S. Poliakov Institute of Geotechnical Mechanics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Academician Nurlan Ryspanov, Honorary Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, President of the Eurasian Academy of Mining Sciences, President of the National Academy of Mining Sciences, Republic of Kazakhstan; Dr. Bat-Ochir Bayantur, Executive Director of the Academy of Mining Sciences of Mongolia, Mongolia; Academician of National Academy of Sciences of Republic of Kazakhstan Rakishev Bayan, Satbayev University, Kazakhstan; Dr. Ivan Minin, University of Mining and Geology "St. Ivan Rilski", Bulgaria Academician of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Yevstakhii Kryzhanivskyi, Rector of the Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas, Ukraine; Academician of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Valeriy Heyets, Head of the Institute for Economics and Forecasting of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine; Dr. Marek Cała, Chairman of the World Mining Congress, Dean of the Faculty of Mining and Geoengineering, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland; Prof., Dr. Jürgen Kretschmann, President of the Society of Mining Professors, President of the Technische Hochschule Georg Agricola, Germany; Prof., Dr. Keneshbek Usenov, Vice-President of the Eurasian Academy of Mining Sciences, Rector of the Jalal-Abad State University, Kyrgyz Republic; Prof., Dr. Volodymyr Shevchenko, M.S. Poliakov Institute of Geotechnical Mechanics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Dnipro, Ukraine;