Acid mine drainage and potentially toxic elements release are a major source of pollution in sulfide-rich mining sites. Pyrite is the most impacting mineral due to its high acidification potential when it reacts with water under oxidizing conditions. At Fushe Arrez dressing plant Northern Albania, volcanic massive sulfide copper district, pyrite was past separated, double flotation process, pro...

To increase resource efficiency, mining residues–especially tailings–have come into the focus of research, companies, and politics. Tailings still contain varying amounts unextracted elements value minerals that were not economic interest during production. As for primary mineral deposits, only a small share tailings offers possibility an reprocessing. minimize exploration expenditure, stepwise...

In this study, the potential of copper tailing deposits in Chile for sequestration carbon dioxide (CO2) via ex-situ mineral carbonation integrating recovery valuable metals was assessed. An inventory and CO2 sources existing constructed to determine most suitable site installation a future plant evaluate technical, economic, environmental feasibility capture, separation, transport from source p...

electrokinetic remediation is one of the most promising in situ or ex situ processes for decontamination of heavy metals, anions and polar organic compositions from the soil. in this study, we investigated the efficacy of this method in removing mercury from clayey soil (with kaolin to sand weight ratio of 2:1) and from gold mine tailing dam sediment and determined optimum removal conditions. t...

Moloney murine leukemia virus reverse transcriptase (MMLV-RT) is a widely used enzyme for cDNA synthesis. Here we show that MMLV-RT has a strong template-independent polymerase activity using blunt DNA ends as substrate that generates 3' overhangs of A, C, G, or T. Nucleotides were appended efficiently in the order A > G > T > C, and tail lengths varied from 4 to 5, 2 to 7, 2 to 4, and 2 to 3 f...

The silica-based stationary phases with favorable physical characteristics are the most popular in liquid chromatography. However, there are several problems with silica-based materials: severe peak tailing in the chromatography of basic compounds, non-reproducibility for the same chemistry columns, and limited pH stability. Ionic liquids (ILs) as mobile phase components can reduce peak tailing...

In this paper, the Guangxi’s red mud disposal field is taken as the study area. Appropriate calculating parameters and boundary conditions were selected based on the survey data to build a Mohr-Coul0mb and fluid model under the plane-strain condition. FLAC software was adopted to simulate the distribution of pore water pressure, filtrate seepage paths, and leakage of the dam body under conditio...