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Acid Mine Drainage (AMD): causes, treatment and case studies
Ata Akcil,Soner Koldas +1 more
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In this article, the authors describe acid mine drainage generation and its associated technical issues, and present three basic levels: primary prevention of acid-generating process, secondary control, and tertiary control, or the collection and treatment of effluent.About:
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Acid mine drainage: Prevention, treatment options, and resource recovery: A review
TL;DR: A review of the available prevention of acid mine drainage generation, treatment options and their importance in light of the future perspectives are briefly discussed in this paper, where the possible resources to be recovered such as ferric hydroxide, ferrite, rare earth metals, sulphur and sulphuric acid and their economic benefit are discussed.
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Towards zero-waste valorisation of rare-earth-containing industrial process residues: a critical review
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the possibilities to recover rare earths from industrial waste streams, which contain only low concentrations of rare-earth elements, but are available in very large volumes and could provide significant amounts of rare Earths.
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Acid mine drainage: Challenges and opportunities
TL;DR: A review of the state-of-the-art of acid mine drainage can be found in this article, where the authors critically analyze the work performed in recent years on its occurrence, effects (on human health, plant life and aquatic species), and summarizes the remediation approaches taken so far to overcome the problem of AMD.
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A review of recent strategies for acid mine drainage prevention and mine tailings recycling.
Ilhwan Park,Carlito Baltazar Tabelin,Sanghee Jeon,Xinlong Li,Kensuke Seno,Mayumi Ito,Naoki Hiroyoshi +6 more
TL;DR: In this review, recent advances in AMD prevention techniques like oxygen barriers, utilization of bactericides, co-disposal and blending, and passivation of sulfide minerals are discussed and recycling of mine tailings as construction and geopolymer materials to reduce the amounts of wastes for disposal are introduced.
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Perovskite photovoltaics: life-cycle assessment of energy and environmental impacts
TL;DR: In this article, the authors performed a life cycle assessment for two types of solution-processed perovskite solar modules to shed light on the environmental performance of this promising class of PVs.
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Developing a framework for sustainable development indicators for the mining and minerals Industry
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a framework for sustainability indicators as a tool for performance assessment and improvements in the mining and minerals industry, which includes economic, environmental, social and integrated indicators.
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Use of organic covers for acid mine drainage control
TL;DR: In this paper, all processes associated with the function of an organic cover are described and discussed, including potential health and environmental risks resulting from land application of municipal sewage sludge, in order to evaluate the performance of the covers and to determine the critical factors affecting their performance.
Role of Microorganisms in Mining: Generation of Acid Rock Drainage and its Mitigation and Treatment
TL;DR: The role of microorganisms in the generation of acid rock drainage and their role in the methods used for prevention, control, and treatment are discussed in this paper, where the benefits, limitations and design criteria for passive biological processes are presented using examples of passive and biological treatment processes.
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Progress toward pollution prevention and waste minimization in the North American gold mining industry
Gavin Hilson,Barbara Murck +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a case study of pollution prevention and waste minimization in the North American gold mining industry is presented, where the authors focus on the two most environmentally problematic areas in the industry, namely cyanidation and acid mine drainage.
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Chemical and Biological Treatment of Acid Mine Drainage for the Removal of Heavy Metals and Acidity
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report the design of a process to remove iron from acid mine drainage without the formation of metal hydroxide sludge, which avoided the generation of iron oxyhydroxide (HO) sludge.
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