Minefill 2020-2021 (ePub)

or co-author of about 250 papers, articles and research reports. J. Palarski has authored many papers on backfill and has made presentations to local, national, and international mining conferences. He is also an active consultant to the industry and has advised numerous national and international organizations in the mining and environment sector.
Prof. SUT Violetta Sokola-Szewiola, PhD, DSc, Eng- deputy head of department at the Department of Exploration of the Silesian University of Technology. She conducts scientific and research activity, among others, in the field of issues related to the impact of underground mining activities on the rock mass and mining area, including in the conditions of conducting of mining the deposits in seismically threatened areas. She developed authors method of forecasting subsidence of terrain surface points in a short period of time, a comprehensive method of determining the parameters of the model describing subsidence of terrain over time and a method of forecasting seismic threat based on continuous observations of subsidence of the mining area. In her research, she also dealt with issues of the impact of exploitation system on the rockburst hazard. Author of about a hundred publications. Awarded many times with the awards of the Rector of the Silesian University of Technology for scientific activity. Member of the Commission for the Protection of Mining Areas of the Polish Academy of Sciences. From 2012, mining expert, in the commission operating within the structures of the European Union.
Prof. SUT Grzegorz Strozik Ph.D, D.Sc,. Eng. is a researcher and academic teacher at the Faculty of Mining, Safety Engineering and Industrial Automation at the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice. He is the author of two books and almost 70 journal publications and conference papers. He deals with mining issues, such as backfill in mining, filling underground voids, ground surface protection, and mine closure. Prof. Strozik is active in land remediation, revitalization, and building structures' geotechnical safety in mining and post-mining regions. Prof. Strozik authored and co-authored numerous mining and geological reports for investments in mining areas, expert opinions, and projects for mines. He participated in multiple international projects to fill underground voids, underground coal gasification, hydrotransport of mixtures, and hydraulic transport of minerals from the seabed.