Abstract
International Innovative Mining Symposium, being organized on the basis of T.F. Gorbachev Kuzbass State Technical University since 2017, is meant to promote the growth of fundamental knowledge in the field of mining. That allows comprehensively covering the innovative development of mining and deep processing of minerals, the greening of mining, the modernization of equipment, the introduction of modern means of ensuring labor safety, and the sustainable development of mining clusters. Contributing to the solution of the innovative development problems of the Russian mineral resource complex, the 5th International Innovative Mining Symposium will unite the efforts of representatives of domestic and world mining science and production. This event will help to accelerate the transfer of innovations and adapt foreign experience in the extraction and processing of minerals, involving a wide range of stakeholders in the discussion of labor and environmental protection issues, rational use of natural resources, national energy security.