Sustainable rehabilitation of mining waste and acid mine drainage using geochemistry, mine type, mineralogy, texture, ore extraction and climate knowledge

HM Anawar - Journal of environmental management, 2015 - Elsevier
The oxidative dissolution of sulfidic minerals releases the extremely acidic leachate, sulfate
and potentially toxic elements eg, As, Ag, Cd, Cr, Cu, Hg, Ni, Pb, Sb, Th, U, Zn, etc. from …

The geochemistry and hydrology of coal waste rock dumps: A systematic global review

C Welch, SL Barbour, MJ Hendry - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Coal has been a major global resource for at least the past 250 years. The major waste
product of coal mining is waste rock, which is stored in dumps of various sizes. Although the …

Acid mine drainage biogeochemistry at Iron Mountain, California

GK Druschel, BJ Baker, TM Gihring… - Geochemical …, 2004 - Springer
Abstract The Richmond Mine at Iron Mountain, Shasta County, California, USA provides an
excellent opportunity to study the chemical and biological controls on acid mine drainage …

A review of acidity generation and consumption in acidic coal mine lakes and their watersheds

C Blodau - Science of the total environment, 2006 - Elsevier
Lakes develo** in former coal mine pits are often characterized by high concentrations of
sulfate and iron and low pH. The review focuses on the causes for and fate of acidity in these …

Mechanisms and pathways of trace element mobility in soils

R Carrillo‐González, J Šimůnek, S Sauvé… - Advances in agronomy, 2006 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary The importance of trace elements (TEs) in soils depends largely on their
fraction that has immediate biological function, that is, the fraction of the total soil burden that …

Reactive transport modeling in fractured rock: A state-of-the-science review

KTB MacQuarrie, KU Mayer - Earth-Science Reviews, 2005 - Elsevier
The field of reactive transport modeling has expanded significantly in the past two decades
and has assisted in resolving many issues in Earth Sciences. Numerical models allow for …

Numerical simulations of pyrite oxidation and acid mine drainage in unsaturated waste rock piles

JW Molson, O Fala, M Aubertin, B Bussière - Journal of Contaminant …, 2005 - Elsevier
Numerical simulations of layered, sulphide-bearing unsaturated waste rock piles are
presented to illustrate the effect of coupled processes on the generation of acid mine …

Deep impact: Effects of mountaintop mining on surface topography, bedrock structure, and downstream waters

MRV Ross, BL McGlynn… - Environmental science & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Land use impacts are commonly quantified and compared using 2D maps, limiting the scale
of their reported impacts to surface area estimates. Yet, nearly all land use involves …

Large particle effects in chemical/biochemical heap leach processes–a review

Y Ghorbani, M Becker, A Mainza, JP Franzidis… - Minerals …, 2011 - Elsevier
The application of heap leach technology to recovery of economically important metals,
notably copper, gold, silver, and uranium, is wide-spread in the mining industry. Unique to …

RETRASO, a code for modeling reactive transport in saturated and unsaturated porous media

MW Saaltink, F Batlle, C Ayora, J Carrera, S Olivella - 2004 - digital.csic.es
The code RETRASO (REactive TRAnsport of SOlutes) simulates reactive transport of
dissolved and gaseous species in non-isothermal saturated or unsaturated problems …