Introducing a holistic framework for assessing the performance of sustainable mine development based on the SBSC and FANP approaches

This study presents a tool for evaluating sustainable development in the mining industry. We identified indicators related to four dimensions: growth and learning, economy, environment, and society. A total of 75 primary indicators were determined. Indicators with a mean weight of over 3.6 were considered suitable, resulting in the selection of 28 final indicators. The top-ranked indicator was "number of lost days" with a mean weight of 10.9, followed by "total amount of waste produced" with a mean weight of 7.73. The indicators of "waste management" and "efforts to restore the mine" had mean weights of 5.9, ranking third. To assess the weight of each dimension in evaluating sustainability performance, the researchers used the FANP method and a pairwise comparison questionnaire. The inconsistency rate of the pairwise comparisons, estimated using the Gogos and Butcher's method, was below 0.1 for all questionnaires, indicating consistency. The results showed that the "growth and learning" dimension had the highest mean weight of 0.48, followed by the "community" dimension with a mean weight of 0.24. The "environment" dimension ranked third with a mean weight of 0.22, while the "economy" dimension ranked fourth with a mean weight of 0.16 among all dimensions.