Hasan Baqeri - Department of Management, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran
Hassan Dehghan Dehnavi - Department of Management, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran
Shahnaz Nayebzadeh - Department of Management, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran
Mozhde Rabbani - Department of Management, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran
Mohammad Taghi Honari - Department of Industrial Management, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran

The purpose of this research is to present mine managers with solutions for the sustainable development of mines with an emphasis on mine tourism. In the first step, identifying ways for mine sustainable development with the use of tourism potentials by studying articles on a national and global scale taken from the SID citation center, Emerald, and Science through content analysis using Nvivo software, was in order. In the second step, ۱۲ main factors were identified and confirmed with the help of the Delphi method and ۱۲ university and industry experts, using EXCEL software. Then, by using tourism potentials with the ISM method and the participation of experts from the previous section, the development model of mines in Iran was achieved and an interpretive structural model was extracted. Finally, in the third step, in order to check the application of the proposed model, structural equation modelling analysis was done using PLS۳ software with the participation of ۱۷۰ managers and supervisors of Iranian mines. The final results acknowledged ۱۲ ways as the final methods of mine sustainable development considering tourism potentials. In the eyes of the expert, mines' innovative reconstruction based on a tourism standpoint, tourism infrastructure improvement, increase in the region's social capital, business and employment growth based on tourism as a necessity were deemed the most effective ways of sustainable development for mines using tourism potentials. Evaluation of the proposed model in the field showed that among ۳۲ theories, only the relationship between innovative mining tourism strategies and business prosperity and job creation based on tourism, the development of mine workers human resources and the development of the region's social capital and the relationship between the development of mine workers human resources and the prosperity of business and employment based on tourism was not approved.

Sustainable development, Sustainable Development of Mines, Mining Tourism, Tourism potentials