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Mosaad Ali Hussein Ali, Farag M. Mewafy, Wei Qian, Ajibola Richard Faruwa, Ali Shebl, Saleh Dabaa and Hussein A. Saleem
The effective detection and monitoring of mining tailings? leachates (MTLs) plays a pivotal role in environmental protection and remediation efforts. Electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) is a non-invasive technique widely employed for mapping subsurfa...
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Morag Hunter, D. H. Nimalika Perera, Eustace P. G. Barnes, Hugo V. Lepage, Elias Escobedo-Pacheco, Noorhayati Idros, David Arvidsson-Shukur, Peter J. Newton, Luis de los Santos Valladares, Patrick A. Byrne and Crispin H. W. Barnes
The expansion of copper mining on the hyper-arid pacific slope of Southern Peru has precipitated growing concern for scarce water resources in the region. Located in the headwaters of the Torata river, in the department of Moquegua, the Cuajone mine, own...
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Shuai Li, Peiyuan Zou, Haoxuan Yu, Boyi Hu and Xinmin Wang
Despite China?s position as a global mining powerhouse, tens of thousands of small- and medium-sized mines (SM mines) within the country continue to pose potential safety hazards and environmental pollution risks. Only through the identification of suita...
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Fuxin Zheng, Yanguo Teng, Yuanzheng Zhai, Jingdan Hu, Junfeng Dou and Rui Zuo
Since the 1990s, sandstone-type uranium in the northern basin of China has become the main target for mining. Uranium mining can cause a series of impacts on the environment. A conceptual model of the geo-environment for sandstone-type uranium in norther...
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Renato Oliveira da Silva Júnior, Helena Pereira Almeida, Marcio Sousa da Silva, Adriano Cuenya França, Eduardo Balleroni, Nailson dos Santos, Paulo Henrique Vilela, Adayana Maria Queiroz de Melo and José Tasso Felix Guimarães
Monitoring the concentration of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) in the aquatic ecosystems of the Amazon is critical to guarantee the maintenance of the ecological balance and the life quality of human populations that reside in or use these environment...
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Yiwen Jiao, Yitian Liu, Wei Wang, Yujiao Li, Wentong Chang, Ao Zhou and Ronglong Mu
Acid mine drainage (AMD) is a major anthropogenic source of heavy metal discharge worldwide. However, little research has been carried out on the development of AMD in abandoned pyrite mines and the heavy metal contamination of mine surface water. The ai...
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Pamela Lazo, Andrea Lazo, Henrik K. Hansen, Rodrigo Ortiz-Soto, Marcela E. Hansen, Felipe Arévalo and Claudia Gutiérrez
Mining activities have been a part of the history of Chile since time immemorial, generating pollution and environmental liabilities. Due to the lack of regulation, many tailings are deposited close to rivers or/and on unstable ground, near which towns h...
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W. Charles Kerfoot, Gary Swain, Luis M. Verissimo, Erin Johnston, Carol A. MacLennan, Daniel Schneider and Noel R. Urban
Over a century ago, copper mills on the Keweenaw Peninsula of Lake Superior sluiced 64 million metric tonnes (MMT) of tailings into coastal waters, creating a metal-rich ?halo?. Here we show that relatively small discharges can spread widely in time and ...
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Julio Cesar Minga, Francisco Javier Elorza, Ramon Rodriguez, Alfredo Iglesias and Doris Esenarro
The objective of this study is to evaluate the contamination of water resources in the Parac subbasin. The existing contamination by heavy metals due to the presence of mining companies is of great concern to the population that inhabits the area since h...
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Rosendo Mendoza, Javier Rey, Julián Martínez and Maria Carmen Hidalgo
Conservation, rehabilitation and post-valuation of the facilities of old mining districts is considered a valid strategy to revitalize these areas. In this study, the northeastern sector of the Linares-La Carolina mining district was analyzed, integratin...
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