A new sustainable closed-loop supply chain model for mining industry considering fixed-charged transportation: A case study in a travertine quarry

Hamed Soleimani

Resources Policy, 2021, vol. 74, issue C

Abstract: Mining industries in general and stone mining in particular play a vital-infrastructural role in any economy due to its vast impacts on other sectors such as construction, production, and even banking. The main purpose of this research is to investigate sustainability aspects of mining industry of decorative stone quarries in Iran in general and a specific case study in particular through a mathematical optimization approach. In this paper, a novel closed-loop approach is proposed for the first time (to the best of our knowledge) to be utilized in a real-case travertine quarry. Indeed, a stone quarry is considered and a closed-loop network is provided to determine appropriate strategies for stone wastes and end of life stones of the buildings. The quarry extracts the stone blocks from the mountain and then cut them into the appropriate pieces by wire sawing machines. Besides, at the decorative stone quarry, based on the insight observations, the outputs are in 4 grades based on their quality depend on the fractures and cleavages of the cut stones.

Keywords: Closed-loop supply chain; Mining industry; Decorative stone; Sustainability; Travertine quarry; Stone manufacturing; Epsilon-constraint approach (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2018.07.006

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