Mine Water Hydrology, Pollution, Remediation
Nowhere is the conflict between economic progress and environmental quality more apparent than in the mineral extraction industries. The latter half of the 20th century saw major advances in the reclamation technologies. However, mine water pollution problems have not been addressed. In many cases,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2002, 2002
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2002 |
| Series: | Environmental Pollution
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- One Mining and the Water Environment
- 1.1 Mining, society and the environment
- 1.2 Scope of this book
- 1.3 Overview of mining and mine wastes
- 1.4 Impacts of mining and mine waters on the water environment and infrastructure
- 1.5 Summary
- Two Mine Water Chemistry
- 2.1 Sources of mine water contaminants and their natural attenuation
- 2.2 Acidity, alkalinity and pH
- 2.3 Assessing contamination loads
- 2.4 The geochemistry of metal ions in aquatic environments
- Three Mine Water Hydrology
- 3.1 Hydrology and mining
- 3.2 Issues and processes in mine water hydrology
- 3.3 Mass continuity and hydrological fluxes
- 3.4 Hydrometry in mining environments
- 3.5 Physical impacts of mineral extraction on natural hydrological systems
- 3.6 Water inflows to active workings
- 3.7 Dewatering techniques and their design
- 3.8 Environmental impacts of dewatering and their mitigation
- 3.9 Hydrological behaviour of waste rock piles, backfill and tailings dams
- 3.10 Mine abandonment and reboundprocesses
- 3.11 Abandoned mine hydrology after rebound is complete
- 3.12 Hydrological interventions in mine water remediation
- Four Active Treatment of Polluted Mine Waters
- 4.1 What is active treatment?
- 4.2 Oxidation, dosing with alkali and sedimentation (ODAS)
- 4.3 Sulfidization and biodesalination
- 4.4 Sorption and ion exchange
- Five Passive Treatment of Polluted Mine Waters
- 5.1 What is passive treatment?
- 5.2 A brief history of passive mine water treatment
- 5.3 Chemical and microbial basis for passive treatment
- 5.4 Passive treatment technologies
- 5.5 Passive treatment process selection and staging
- Appendix I Glossary of mining and related terms relevant to mine water science and engineering
- References