Rhizobacteria may enhance biomass production and heavy metal tolerance of plants under stress conditions. The present study was carried out for isolation of metal-resistant bacteria that can be further utilized for phytoremediation process. A potential metal-resistant strain CRB15 was isolated from rhizospheric region of Saccharum spontaneum that was found to be resistant against Cu (6.29 mM), ...

Cemented tailings backfill is widely used in worldwide mining areas, and its development trend increasing due to the technical economic benefits. However, there no reliable simple machine learning model for prediction of compressive strength. In present study, research process use artificial intelligence algorithms predict strength cemented tailing was conducted, overcoming shortcomings traditi...

Microbially induced carbonate precipitation (MICP) technology is an environmentally friendly technique that can contribute to tailings consolidation and ecosystem restoration. Our study found local MICP bacteria, Lysinibacillus fusiformis, could remediate copper pollution at different slope positions (K1, K2, K3) in arid areas. We analyzed the effect of treatment on slag from macro- microscopic...

In the flotation process, the concentrate grade and the tailing grade are crucial technical indices which reflect the product quality and efficiency. There are strong nonlinearity and uncertainty in such technical indices dynamic behaviors, which can hardly be described using accurate mathematical model. The technical indices which cannot be measured online continuously vary with boundary condi...

Extended tailing of low bacterial concentrations following breakthrough at the Narrow Channel focus area was observed for 4 months. Bacterial attachment and detachment kinetics associated with breakthrough and extended tailing were determined by fitting a one-dimensional transport model to the field breakthrough-tailing data. Spatial variations in attachment rate coefficient (k f) were observed...

Small silencing RNAs, including microRNAs, endogenous small interfering RNAs (endo-siRNAs) and Piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs), have been shown to play important roles in fine-tuning gene expression, defending virus and controlling transposons. Loss of small silencing RNAs or components in their pathways often leads to severe developmental defects, including lethality and sterility. Recently, no...

BACKGROUND Feeding schemes based on school garden produce have been proposed as an effective solution to food insecurity and hunger among learners in South Africa. However, few studies have looked at the potential contamination of school food gardens when situated near mine tailing dams. OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to evaluate the potential heavy metal contamination in a school vegeta...

In this study, iron tailings were used as raw materials mixing with Al2O3, SiO2, and/or CaO sintered at 950–1400 °C to produce glass ceramics. Al2O3/tailing and Al2O3/SiO2/tailing systems, the newly formed crystalline mullite (3Al2O3·2SiO2) reached its maximum content of 83.7 wt% for sample mass ratio 6/2/2. Al2O3/SiO2/CaO/tailing system, anorthite (CaAl2Si2O8) increased 72.9 7/8/4/6 1450 °C. T...

Due to economical and environmental issues, utilization of mineral wastes, e.g. iron ore mine tailing (IOMT), as road materials can be recommended as a sustainable alternative. In the present study, mechanical properties, as well as resistance to freezing and thawing cycles (F-T) of low plasticity clay soil stabilized with different percentages of Portland cement (0, 6, 9, 12 and 15%) and diffe...