Acid mine drainage formation, control and treatment: Approaches and strategies

JG Skousen, PF Ziemkiewicz, LM McDonald - The Extractive Industries and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Acid mine drainage (AMD) occurs after mining exposes metal sulfides to oxidizing
conditions. Leaching of reaction products into surface waters pollute over 20,000 km of …

Mine tailings dams: Characteristics, failure, environmental impacts, and remediation

D Kossoff, WE Dubbin, M Alfredsson, SJ Edwards… - Applied …, 2014 - Elsevier
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 …

Land-management options for greenhouse gas removal and their impacts on ecosystem services and the sustainable development goals

P Smith, J Adams, DJ Beerling… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Land-management options for greenhouse gas removal (GGR) include afforestation or
reforestation (AR), wetland restoration, soil carbon sequestration (SCS), biochar, terrestrial …

Review of passive systems for acid mine drainage treatment

J Skousen, CE Zipper, A Rose, PF Ziemkiewicz… - Mine Water and the …, 2017 - Springer
When appropriately designed and maintained, passive systems can provide long-term,
efficient, and effective treatment for many acid mine drainage (AMD) sources. Passive AMD …

Cross-sectoral perspectives (chapter 12)

M Babiker, G Berndes, K Blok, B Cohen, A Cowie… - 2022 - pure.iiasa.ac.at
The total emission mitigation potential achievable by the year 2030, calculated based on
sectoral assessments, is sufficient to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions to half of the …

[PDF][PDF] Restructuring and rescaling water governance in mining contexts: The co-production of waterscapes in Peru

J Budds, L Hinojosa - Water alternatives, 2012 - water-alternatives.org
The governance of water resources is prominent in both water policy agendas and
academic scholarship. Political ecologists have made important advances in …

How do we best synergize climate mitigation actions to co‐benefit biodiversity?

P Smith, A Arneth, DKA Barnes, K Ichii… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A multitude of actions to protect, sustainably manage and restore natural and modified
ecosystems can have co‐benefits for both climate mitigation and biodiversity conservation …

Land subsidence susceptibility mapping in south korea using machine learning algorithms

D Tien Bui, H Shahabi, A Shirzadi, K Chapi, B Pradhan… - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
In this study, land subsidence susceptibility was assessed for a study area in South Korea by
using four machine learning models including Bayesian Logistic Regression (BLR), Support …

Preparation and characterization of Portland cement clinker from iron ore tailings

G Young, M Yang - Construction and Building Materials, 2019 - Elsevier
We report a type of high-magnesium and low-silicon iron ore tailings (IOT) utilized as a raw
material replacing clay to produce cement clinkers by conventional sintering process …

[HTML][HTML] Pit lakes are a global legacy of mining: an integrated approach to achieving sustainable ecosystems and value for communities

ML Blanchette, MA Lund - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Pit lakes form from open-cut mines and may have acidic, toxic waters.•Post-
mining, communities derive benefits from sustainable pit lake ecosystems.•An integrated …