Preface

Abstract

2021 2nd International Conference on Geology, Resources Exploration and Development (ICGRED 2021) was planned to be held on January 15-17, 2021 in Zhuhai, China. Due to the impact of COVID-19, many communities from all over the world were under strict health measures and strict travel restrictions, and participants of 2021 2nd International Conference on Geology, Resources Exploration and Development (ICGRED 2021) also meet with the difficulty of travel restrictions. For communities, if our conference was not held in a virtual form, it would add huge work on traffic system, Exit-Entry system, medical system, etc., which is quite a serious issue, to actively respond to the call of the government, to strengthen the protection work, to effectively reduce people gathering and prevent COVID-19, considering the situation that most of the authors would like to publish their articles and make academic communications as scheduled, ICGRED 2021 was held on-line instead of postponing the conference. It was a challenge, not only to the organizers, but also to the participants who were delivering their speeches using videoconference tools, under different time zones.ICGRED 2021 is to bring together innovative academics and industrial experts in the field of geology, resources exploration and development to a common conference. The primary goal is to promote research and developmental activities in geology, resources exploration and development, and another goal is to promote scientific information interchange between researchers, developers, engineers, students, and practitioners working all around the world. An ideal platform for seeking global partners had been established. We sincerely invited you to attend the conference to share views and experiences ingeology, resources exploration and development and related areas.The conference brings together about 60 leading researchers, engineers and scientists in the domain of interest from different countries. The conference model was divided into two parts, including keynote presentations and online discussion. In the first part, each keynote speakers were allocated 30 minutes to present their talks via Zoom. After the keynote talks, all participants joined in a WeChat communication group to discuss more about the talks and presentations.We were greatly honor to have invited four distinguished experts as our keynote speakers. Prof. Hongfu Zhou, from Shandong University of Science and Technology, China, was the first one to perform a thought-provoking speech. His research interests include Engineering Geology and Geological Hazards. Prof. Dongfang Yang, from Guizhou Minzu University, China as our second keynote speakers. His research interests are Biogeochemistry, Environmental science, Ecology. Prof. Xiuxin Wang, from Southeast University, China. His research interests include Structural Disaster Design, Structure Inspection, Bridge Design, Seismic Isolation, Sustainable Building Development. The finale keynote speakers, A. Prof. Yang Wu, from Guangzhou University, China. His research interests include Marine Geotechnical Engineering, Constitutive Model of Geotechnical Materials, Multi-field Coupling Simulation, Pile Foundation Engineering. Their insightful speeches had triggered heated discussion in the second session of the conference. The WeChat discussion lasted for about 30 minutes. Every participant praised this conference for disseminating useful and insightful knowledge.The proceedings of ICGRED 2021 span over 2 topical tracks, that include: Geology, Resources and Energy and other related fields. All the papers have been through rigorous review and process to meet the requirements of International publication standard.We would like to express our gratitude to everyone involved. Without this dedicated cooperation, it would be impossible to hold the conference at such a high level and prepare the ICGRED 2021 proceedings.Committee of ICGRED 2021List of Committee members are available in this pdf.