Proceedings of the 10th Asian Mining Congress 2023 / Springer Proceedings in Earth and Environmental Sciences (PDF)

Dr. Amalendu Sinha is MSc App. Geology, MSc (Tech) Mineral Exploration, PhD (App. Geology), from ISM, now IIT (ISM) Dhanbad and retired as Director, CSIR-Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research in July, 2015. His main area of research was Rock Mechanics and Geotechnology. He is recipient of various awards, published a large number of papers in journals and conferences and have some patents to his credit. He is a reviewer of many reputed journals.

Prof. Bhabesh C. Sarkar, a renowned Geostatistician having 42 years of professional experience with a strong blend of industry and academics, is a Professor of Applied Geology at IIT(ISM) Dhanbad. He obtained his five-year Integrated M.Sc. Applied Geology from IIT Kharagpur in 1980 and PhD & DIC in Mining Geostatistics from Imperial College London in 1988. He has over 121 research publications to his credit in journals and proceedings of repute.

Dr. Prabhat Kumar Mandal is Chief Scientist and Head, Mining Methods & Geomechanics Division, CSIR-CIMFR, Dhanbad & Professor, AcSIR, India. He graduated in Mining Engineering from BE College, Shibpur in 1993, did MTech from IIT Kharagpur & PhD from BESU (now IIEST), Shibpur. He has more than 28 years of R&D experience in rock mechanics and mining. He has over 160 publications, executed more than 180 projects, editorial board member and reviewer of several reputed journals.