Integrated field studies on environmental levels, bioavailability, biological exposure, and effects SUMMARY Iron-ore is the source of primary iron for the world's iron and steel industries. Almost all (98%) iron-ore is used in steelmaking. Australia and Brazil together dominate the world's iron-ore production, while China is the world's largest iron-ore consumer. In Brazil, iron-ore mining is m...

Method comparison studies of two different methods for the analysis of weak acid dissociable (WAD) cyanide revealed analytical flaws and/or matrix interference problems with both procedures. EPA "draft" method 1677 using a Perstorp 3202 CN analyzer was compared to Standard Method 4500 CN I. It was discovered that the Perstorp analyzer produced more precise and more accurate results once appropr...

BACKGROUND, AIM, AND SCOPE Diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT) have been recognized as a suitable tool to assess in situ metal bioavailability in soils. Mine tailings have some singular characteristics such as high heavy-metal concentrations, low pH, or absence of water retention capacity that may compromise the correct application of this technique whose applicability is known to be pH dep...

The iron mining regions of Brazil contain thousands of “iron ore caves” (IOCs) that form within Fe(III)-rich deposits. The mechanisms by which these IOCs form remain unclear, but the reductive dissolution of Fe(III) (hydr)oxides by Fe(III) reducing bacteria (FeRB) could provide a microbiological mechanism for their formation. We evaluated the susceptibility of Fe(III) deposits associated with t...

Purpose is to develop a unified mathematical model assess energy efficiency of water inflow-drainage process as the real variant stochastic method for pumping from underground workings iron-ore mines. Methods. The research was based upon methods probability theory well modelling methods. function integration has been reduced summation its ordinates and further transition proper boundary. Findin...

Large amounts of uranium waste rocks and tailings resulting from the exploitation and treatment of uranium ore at the Northern Guangdong mine (South China) have been accumulated in dams (tailing ponds). To reduce the dispersion of natural radionuclides into the environment, some dams were revegetated with arbor, bush and sward. Besides these plants, Miscanthus floridulu is the dominant plant gr...

INTRODUCTION The field trip today will concentrate mostly on the metamorphic effects on the Biwabik Iron Formation, at the Peter Mitchell mine of eastern Mesabi Iron Range, caused by intrusion of the nearby Mesoproterozoic Duluth Complex (1.1 Ga). The stratigraphy of the iron-formation that is used at this mine, and nearby mines, was mainly developed by Gundersen and Schwartz (1962) and is depi...

In this study, iron ore tailings (IOTs) are used as aggregates to prepare iron-ore-tailing-engineered cementitious composites (IOT-ECCs) achieve clean production. Some mechanical indexes, such compressive strength (fcu), four-point flexural (ff), axial (fc), deformation properties, toughness, and stress–strain behavior, studied. The mass loss, fcu relative dynamic modulus elasticity (RDEM), det...

Motivated by an underground mining operation at Kiruna, Sweden, we formulate a mixed integer program to schedule iron ore production over multiple time periods. Our optimization model determines an operationally feasible ore extraction sequence that minimizes deviations from planned production quantities. The number of binary decision variables in our model is large enough that directly solving...