The "Agios Philippos" mine in the Kirki region (NE Greece) has been abandoned in 1998 after half a century of ore exploration without a reclamation or remediation plan. This article aims at elucidating the potential environmental risks associated with this site by quantifying pollution in tailing basins, stream waters, stream sediments and agricultural fields. Concentrations of heavy metals in ...

The rate at which a mine detection system falsely identifies man-made or natural clutter objects as mines is referred to as the system’s false alarm rate (FAR). Generally expressed as a rate per unit area or time, the FAR is one of the primary metrics used to gauge system performance. In this report, an overview is given of statistical methods appropriate for the analysis of data relating to FA...

Site-specific risk assessment of contaminated areas indicates prior areas for intervention, and provides helpful information for risk managers. This study was conducted in the Ervedosa mine area (Bragança, Portugal), where both underground and open pit exploration of tin and arsenic minerals were performed for about one century (1857-1969). We aimed at obtaining ecotoxicological information wit...

The site and character of precious and basemetal epithermal deposits is determined by several principal factors which include: structure, stratigraphy, lithology, pressure and temperature. hydrology, chemistry of the mineralizing fluid, and syn-hydrothermal development of permeability or changes in hydraulic gradient (White and Hedenquist, 1990). This study investigates the syn-hydrothermal dev...

Individual sensor nodes are low power devices which integrate computing, wireless communication and sensing capabilities to detect land mine. Such multiple nodes collectively form wireless sensor network. To detect landmine in ground surface, sensor node that able to sense the mine and to process the information locally are mounted on a mobile robot to scan the ground surface in the organized p...

lichen species (hypogymnia physodes and evernia prunastri) were used for biomonitoring thepossible air pollution with heavy metals in the vicinity of copper mine in the eastern part of the republic ofmacedonia. the contents of 18 elements were analysed by icp-aes and etaas techniques. for dataprocessing basic statistical methods and multivariate exploratory (factor and cluster analysis) techniq...

fundamental understanding of the goaf gas distribution in a gassy coal mine is necessary for developing effective goaf gas drainage strategies in the longwall coal mine. the goaf gas was subjected to the surface and body forces that were classified depending upon whether they acted on the surface area or the volume of the gas element. of these forces, the body forces were more predominant in di...