Microremains of fungi from Neogene deposits the Gray Fossil Site (Tennessee, United States) and Bełchatów Lignite Mine (Poland), similar to enigmatic fossil-species Kutchiathyrites eccentricus R.K. Kar, 1979, were reconsidered as representatives modern mitosporic genus Mycoenterolobium Goos, 1970. A new combination, eccentricum (R.K. Kar) G. Worobiec, n. comb., is proposed. The geographical str...

Measures to counteract AMD generation need to start at the mineral surface, inhibiting 9 mineral-oxidizing, acidophilic microbes. Laboratory and long term field tests with pyrite-containing 10 mining wastes, where Carbonaceous Phosphate Mining Waste (CPMW) was added, resulted in low 11 acidity, and near neutral drainage. The effect was reproducible, and confirmed by several 12 independent resea...

The closure of surface mines is a complex framework characterized by extended reclamations post-mining sites towards an environmentally friendly and sustainable land-use system development with beneficial returns to society the economy. paper demonstrates critical mine problem, draws research questions, introduces IDEF0 (Integrated DEFinition Function) process modelling method as low-cost easy ...

The Megalopolis lignite field basin in southern Greece, with Megalopolis-A and B lignite-fired power plants in operation (total 900 MW), has been repeatedly investigated during the past 25 years by the Nuclear Engineering Section of the National Technical University of Athens (NES-NTUA). The present work aims at an integrated radioenvironmental approach leading to the dose assessment to the pub...