Recent Progress of Natural Mineral Materials in Environmental Remediation

Organic contaminants, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and heavy metals have posed long-term threats to the ecosystem human health. Natural minerals aroused widespread interest in field of environmental remediation due their unique characteristics such as rich resources, environmentally benign, excellent photoelectric properties. This review briefly introduced contributions natural sulfide minerals, oxide oxysalt pollution control, which include degradation, sterilization, air purification (NO VOCs oxidation), metal treatment by means photocatalysis, Fenton catalysis, persulfate activation, adsorption process. At last, future challenges mineral materials control are also outlooked.