This dataset includes data related to 4220 articles on sustainable mining published from 1983 to 2018. The Scopus database was selected as a data source. Detailed data applies to co-authored articles. The number of authors and affiliations (country, institution, sector) were taken into account. Data has been cleaned in terms of names of institutions and countries. In given sets the following data were included: - Distribution of articles in sustainable mining from 1983 to 2018 - Distribution of joint articles and the types of joint articles from 1983 to 2018 - Team size in terms of the number of authors of articles in sustainable mining from 1983 to 2018 - Team size in terms of the number of authors' institutions in articles in sustainable mining from 1983 to 2018 - Team size in terms of the number of authors' countries in articles in sustainable mining from 1983 to 2018 Please note, the field separator used in these files is a semicolon, while the decimal separator is a comma. Each of the files has two header lines.

This dataset is a research base for the article titled "Research collaboration patterns in sustainable mining – a co-authorship analysis of publications".