Estuarine pollution imposes rapid, increasing and lasting environmental modifications. In the
present review, especial attention is given to estuaries in South America (SA), where …

Most worldwide policy frameworks, including the United Nations Sustainable Development
Goals, highlight soil as a key non-renewable natural resource which should be rigorously …

Tailings are the waste materials generated from mining activities and are typically stored in
large man-made earthen dams in the form of slurry. Failures of such tailings dams can have …

The global mining industry produces billions of tonnes of mine tailings each year. This slurry
of waste material is often contained in dams, which are among some of the world's largest …

After the collapse of the Fundão dam, 43 million m 3 of iron ore tailings continue to cause
environmental damage, polluting 668 km of watercourses from the Doce River to the Atlantic …

This review presents a holistic overview of the occurrence, mobilization, and pathways of
arsenic (As) from predominantly geogenic sources into different near-surface environmental …

The impacts of the SAMARCO iron tailing spill along more than 650 km, between the dam
and the plume of the Doce River in the Atlantic, were assessed by the determination of toxic …

Abstract Today (year 2020), the globally recognized problem of arsenic (As) contamination
of water resources and other environments at toxic levels has been reported in all of the 20 …

Hydrometallurgical approaches have been successfully employed for metal separation and
recovery from various types of waste materials. Therefore, hydrometallurgy is a promising …

The rupture of the Brumadinho mining tailings dam in Brazil is considered one of the largest
mining disasters in the world, resulting in 244 deaths and 26 missing people, in addition to …