Bauxite mining waste pollution and its sustainable management through bioremediation

G Pradhan, B Tripathy, DK Ram, AK Digal… - Geomicrobiology …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The potential to subsidize the development of areas furnished with ores is essential for
producing supplies, services, and infrastructure that get a better social life quality. Bauxite …

Soil quality and vegetation performance indicators for sustainable rehabilitation of bauxite residue disposal areas: a review

E Di Carlo, CR Chen, RJ Haynes, IR Phillips… - Soil …, 2019 - CSIRO Publishing
The generation of bauxite residue, the by-product of alumina manufacture from bauxite ore,
has increased to a global stockpile of some 3 billion tonnes. In the absence of significant …

Contrasted microbial community colonization of a bauxite residue deposit marked by a complex geochemical context

LA Macías-Pérez, C Levard, M Barakat… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Bauxite residue is the alkaline byproduct generated during alumina extraction and is
commonly landfilled in open-air deposits. The growth in global alumina production have …

Alkaline tailings as novel soil forming substrates: reframing perspectives on mining and refining wastes

TC Santini, NC Banning - Hydrometallurgy, 2016 - Elsevier
Historically, tailings management plans have focused largely on confinement and
containment, with little regard to long term alteration of the chemical, physical, and biological …

Alkaliphiles for comprehensive utilization of red mud (bauxite residue)—an alkaline waste from the alumina refinery

A Naykodi, SC Patankar, BN Thorat - Environmental Science and …, 2023 - Springer
The mining industry has powered the human endeavor to make life more innovative, flexible,
and comfortable. However, it has also led to concerns due to the increasing amount of …

[HTML][HTML] Coupling microbial and abiotic amendments accelerates in situ remediation of bauxite residue at field scale

G Scullett-Dean, K Stockwell, L Myers… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Bauxite residue is a highly saline-sodic tailings material formed as a by-product of the Bayer
process for alumina production. In situ remediation of bauxite residue has the potential to …

pH and organic carbon dose rates control microbially driven bioremediation efficacy in alkaline bauxite residue

TC Santini, LI Malcolm, GW Tyson… - … Science & Technology, 2016 - ACS Publications
Bioremediation of alkaline tailings, based on fermentative microbial metabolisms, is a novel
strategy for achieving rapid pH neutralization and thus improving environmental outcomes …

The dynamic development of bacterial community following long-term weathering of bauxite residue

H Wu, L Chen, F Zhu, W Hartley, Y Zhang… - journal of environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Bauxite residue is the industrial waste generated from alumina production and commonly
deposited in impoundments. These sites are bare of vegetation due to the extreme high …

Isolation of haloalkaliphilic fungi from Lake Magadi in Kenya

P Orwa, G Mugambi, V Wekesa, R Mwirichia - Heliyon, 2020 - cell.com
In this study we explored the cultivable fungal diversity in Lake Magadi and their secondary
metabolite production. Isolation was done on alkaline media (Potato dextrose agar, Malt …

Microbial decomposition of biomass residues mitigated hydrogeochemical dynamics in strongly alkaline bauxite residues

F You, L Zhang, J Ye, L Huang - Science of the Total Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Effective neutralization of strongly alkaline conditions in bauxite residues (BR) is the
fundamental step to initiate the process of eco-engineering BR into growth substrate (or soil …