Heavy metals are considered as one of the important pollutants in the environment, particularly in the aquatic ecosystems. The presence of cadmium in food chain is toxic to human health. Different physical or chemical methods have been used for removing heavy metal ions in the water and wastewater treatments. The aim of this work was to assess the possibility of Cd removal from aqueous solution...

The hypothesis investigated in this paper is that the interstitial polychaete Saccocirrus sonomacus is excluded from beaches impacted by tailing disposal as a result of the blocking of the interstitial space and not by a response to the toxicity of elevated copper concentrations. Field evidence suggested that abundances of S. sonomacus on beaches where they would be expected to occur under natu...

Mining activities have been carried out for thousands of years and nowadays have an enormous worldwide use to obtain important metals of industrial use. These include copper, iron, gold and several others. Although modern mining companies have sustainable mining programs that include tailings management and external verifications, it is recognized that these industrial activities are responsibl...

Lygeum spartum is a native species in semiarid Mediterranean areas that grows spontaneously on acid mine tailings. We aimed to study the suitability of this plant for phytostabilization. L. spartum was grown from both seeds and rhizomes in acid mine tailings with various fertilizer and lime treatments. Untreated soils had a solution pH of 2.9 with high concentrations of dissolved salts (Electri...

The Pridneprovsky Chemical Plant was one of the largest uranium processing enterprises in the former USSR, producing a huge amount of uranium residues. The Zapadnoe tailings site contains most of these residues. We propose a theoretical framework based on multicriteria decision analysis and fuzzy logic to analyze different remediation alternatives for the Zapadnoe tailings, which simultaneously...

Deep-Sea Tailings Placement (DSTP) from terrestrial mines is one of several large-scale industrial activities now taking place in the deep sea. The scale and persistence of its impacts on seabed biota are unknown. We sampled around the Lihir and Misima island mines in Papua New Guinea to measure the impacts of ongoing DSTP and assess the state of benthic infaunal communities after its conclusio...

The non-carcinogenic hazard index (HI) and the carcinogenic risk (CRI) due to exposure metal(loid)s were assessed in children adults living adjacent a beach contaminated with mine tailings. Chromium (Cr), nickel (Ni), cadmium (Cd), arsenic (As), zinc (Zn), copper (Cu), lead (Pb) manganese (Mn) determined fine particulate matter (PM2.5) sedimented dust (SD) school residential microenvironments. ...

This study investigates the application of models traditionally used to estimate erosion and sediment deposition to assess the potential risk of water quality impairment resulting from metal-bearing materials related to mining and mineralization. An integrated watershed analysis using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) based tools was undertaken to examine erosion and sediment transport chara...

The present paper introduces the steel production and BOF slag processing techniques in Steelmaking Sector of Bayuquan Iron and Steel Subsidiary, Ansteel. The technology of slag tailings utilization has been developed under the consideration of the properties of slag tailing and the characteristics of slag forming in BOF steelmaking operation practice. The processing of the BOF slag includes ho...