On a global scale demand for the products of the extractive industries is ever increasing.
Extraction of the targeted resource results in the concurrent production of a significant …

Medium and highly sulfidic tailings are high-volume wastes that can lead to severe
environmental damage if not properly managed. Due to the high content of sulfide minerals …

Inadequate disposal of tailings resulting from processing and other mining and metallurgical
activities causes often severe contamination of surface streams and groundwater reservoirs …

The performance of EDTA for the treatment of calcareous soils contaminated with heavy
metals from mining and smelting activities was evaluated in this study. Soil samples …

The removal of sulphate ions constitutes one of the main challenges in the mining,
metallurgical and chemical industries, among others. Sulphate removal from aqueous …

In the present paper, the potential use of lignite fly ash in the control of acid generation from
sulphidic tailings disposed of at Lavrion, Greece was studied. Long-term laboratory column …

This study assessed the distribution and availability of plant uptake of Zn, Pb, and Cd
present in an abandoned mine at Ingurtosu, Sardinia (Italy). Geological matrix samples …

The removal of sulphate and molybdate anions (among other anions) from mining liquid
effluents is attracting much interest because of the strict environmental legislation world …

A continuous column experiment was carried out under dynamic flow conditions in order to
study the efficiency of low-cost permeable reactive barriers (PRBs) to remove several …

In the present study, flow-through column experiments using a series of continuous-flow
columns were conducted to investigate the performance of Fe0 permeable reactive barriers …