Improving the sustainable management of mining tailings through microbially induced calcite precipitation: a review

H Zúñiga-Barra, J Toledo-Alarcón, Á Torres-Aravena… - Minerals …, 2022 - Elsevier
Mining activities offers evident potential economic benefits for mineral rich countries.
However, mining operations can produce a series of environmental impacts. Many of them …

The microbiology of oil sands tailings: past, present, future

JM Foght, LM Gieg, T Siddique - FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Surface mining of enormous oil sands deposits in northeastern Alberta, Canada since 1967
has contributed greatly to Canada's economy but has also received negative international …

Stress-dilatancy behavior of MICP-treated sand

S Wu, B Li, J Chu - International Journal of Geomechanics, 2021 - ascelibrary.org
Biocementation of soil using microbial-induced carbonate precipitation has become a new
approach for soil treatment. The biocemented sand behaves differently from uncemented …

Performance of microbial-induced carbonate precipitation on wind erosion control of sandy soil

M Maleki, S Ebrahimi, F Asadzadeh… - International journal of …, 2016 - Springer
Wind erosion is a serious problem throughout the world which results in soil and
environment degradation and air pollution. The main objective of this study was to evaluate …

Experimental studies on the durability and leaching properties of alkali-activated tailings subjected to different environmental conditions

N Zhang, A Hedayat, L Figueroa, KX Steirer, H Li… - Cement and Concrete …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents an investigation on the durability and leaching behavior of gold MTs-
based geopolymer by conducting a series of experiments that included uniaxial …

Characteristics of bio-CaCO3 from microbial bio-mineralization with different bacteria species

C Qian, X Ren, Y Rui, K Wang - Biochemical Engineering Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Nowadays, MICP (Microbially Induced Calcite Precipitation) technology has broad
application prospects in civil engineering, such as sand consolidation, crack healing in …

Investigating the potential for microbially induced carbonate precipitation to treat mine waste

D Proudfoot, L Brooks, CH Gammons, E Barth… - Journal of hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, the feasibility of promoting microbially induced carbonate precipitation (MICP)
in mine waste piles by using an environmental bacterial enrichment is explored, with goals …

Effect of microbial-induced calcite precipitation on shear strength of gold mine tailings

H Behzadipour, A Sadrekarimi - Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the …, 2023 - Springer
Mine tailings are often considered problematic materials because of their loose depositional
fabric and susceptibility to static and cyclic liquefaction failures. Yet, they are often stored …

Solidification treatment of rare earth tailings by a renewable biological cementation method

T Wang, Z Sun, Y Bo, C Zou, Z Wang, C Zheng - Process Safety and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Rare earth mineral is a kind of polymetallic co-associated mineral, in addition to containing
iron, rare earth, niobium, and a certain amount of thorium and uranium. The tailings after wet …

State of the Art: MICP soil improvement and its application to liquefaction hazard mitigation

JT DeJong, MG Gomez, AC San Pablo… - Proceedings of the 20th …, 2022 - par.nsf.gov
The field of biogeotechnics has emerged from the realization that processes intrinsic to
natural systems can provide new approaches and inspiration through which the efficiency …