Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

• Article requests : please see Requested articles
• Assess : work on assessing the large backlog (see WP:WikiProject Mining/Assessment for details of how to do so)
• Citing sources : requested at smelting, pyrometallurgy, extractive metallurgy
• Cleanup : need to make strong clarifications on distinctions between strip mining vs. open-pit mining (there seem to be many linguistic issues resulting from translation of languages where the distinction isn't so clear)
• Expand : Mining in the United States. I created this horrible set of links back in '09. Stoping (mining). History of coal mining in the United States has recentism problems.
• NPOV : Ranger Uranium Mine, Uranium mining controversy in Kakadu National Park
• Stubs : Miner (very little if any information on the history of miners, mining culture, mining traditions, or miners in heraldry (such as seals and coats of arms). New Acland Mine, New Oakleigh Mine
• Verify : Please see WP:WikiProject Mining/Articles for Verification for a list of mining articles to be verified as real.
• Other : look at priorities; broad subjects should be before single mines, iconic mines before small mines, mines before mining personalities, etc? Done (see proposed working assessment scale)