The Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB) hosts one of the world's largest accumulations of acidic mine wastes and pit lakes. The mineralogical and textural characteristics of the IPB ores have favored the oxidation and dissolution of metallic sulfides, mainly pyrite, and the subsequent formation of acidic mining drainages. This work reports the physical properties, hydrogeochemical characteristics, and mi...

Bauxite is mined and transported by conveyor to a processing plant, screened and washed, then placed into blended stockpiles to feed the alumina refinery. While being stacked to the stockpile, the ore is sampled. Completed stockpiles must be acceptably close to target grade (composition), not only in alumina, but also in residual silica, carbon and sodium carbonate. The mine is an open-cut pit....

Coal mining in China is facing the transition from output to quality. Based on total capacity and average production, current situation of coal at mine, city, province levels analysed, data support for layout sustainable development optimization provided. The results show that 87% China's mined by underground methods, with an production 0.93 Mt/a per mine. Open pit accounts 13%, mine 5.73 Mt/a....

For the demand of lower localization costs, less communications costs and higher accuracy of objects tracking under mine pit, weighted centroid localization algorithm based on RSSI is introduced to localize the node. This algorithm shows relatively high accuracy by simulation and is suitable for the localization of mine personnel.

Here we report on a metagenomics investigation of the microbial diversity in a serpentine-hosted aquatic habitat created by chrysotile asbestos mining activity at the Vermont Asbestos Group (VAG) Mine in northern Vermont, USA. The now-abandoned VAG Mine on Belvidere Mountain in the towns of Eden and Lowell includes three open-pit quarries, a flooded pit, mill buildings, roads, and > 26 million ...

Since its closure in 1995 and the subsequent accident happened in 1998, the Aznalcóllar mine pit has been used as a disposal site for diverse metal-rich materials removed during the rehabilitation of polluted areas along the Guadiamar river and around the former ore processing facilities. At present, the mine pit is partly flooded and contains a highly acidic (pH 2.7) pit lake with ~6 Hm of met...

Sarcheshmeh copper mine, with the final reserves of 828 million tons of sulfur ore and average grade of 0.74%, is known to be the largest open pit of Iran and most probably the second largest copper mine in the world. This mine is located in the seismotectonic zone of Central-Iran, and 23 Km away from the 150 Km long Rafsanjan active fault.In this study the vulnerability of the west wall of the...

Slope stability analysis is one of the most important problems in mining and geotechnical engineering. Ignoring the importance of these problems can lead to significant losses. Selecting an appropriate method to analyze the slope stability requires a proper understanding of how different factors influence the outputs of the analyses. This paper evaluates the effects of considering the real geom...