Target of Publication is the public representation of new scientific results of fundamental, problem-oriented, and search scientific investigations; analytical articles and reviews by actual scientific problems of coal mining industry, short reports in the field of coal mining industry, including the results of work of scientific meetings, conferences, summit’s and congresses in the field of mining. The basic purpose of the journal is the promotion of innovative activity in the coal mining industry by highlighting and discussing the results of basic and applied research, the experience in applying results of innovation for the development of the Russian coal mining.

The most important tasks of the journal are: the generalization of scientific and practical achievements of specialists in the field of coal mining industry, specializing in the implementation of promising basic and applied research and development of priorities of high technologies; the scientific concept of the publication; the publication of the latest achievements in the field of innovation in coal mining industry. The journal lays special emphasis on methodical elaborations, analytical investigations in the sphere of coal mining. Targets of Journal are in publication of new results of scientific investigations performed by scientists, post-graduate students, and doctoral candidates performed by from higher schools, Russian Academy of Sciences, other scientific organizations of Russia, CIS countries, and foreign universities