Experimental Study on Backfilling Mine Goafs with Chemical Waste Phosphogypsum

Treatment of phosphogypsum waste using suitable organic extractants

Phosphogypsum (PG) is a residue of the phosphate fertilizer industry that has relatively high concentrations of harmful radioactive materials. The reduction in concentration of the radionuclides from PG was investigated. The removal process is based on leaching of radionuclides using suitable organic extractants. The studied radionuclides were 226Ra, 210Pb, 238U and 40K. The factors affect the ...

Chapter 11: Mine Waste Dump

The Overburden of waste and uneconomic mineralized rock is required to be removed to mine the useful mineral resource in a surface mining operation. In this process a dump is formed by casting the waste material and dumping it in nearby area. The dump so formed is known as mine waste dump. Waste dump may be classified as internal and external dump. External dump is created outside the pit where...

Study of Ni sorption onto Tio mine waste rock surfaces

0883-2927/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.apgeochem.2010.09.010 ⇑ Corresponding author. Fax: +1 819 797 4727. E-mail address: [email protected] (B. Plante). Sorption phenomena are known to play significant roles in metal mobility in mine drainage waters. The present study focuses on sorption phenomena controlling Ni concentrations in contaminated neutral drainage issue...

Mine Waste Characterization, Management and Remediation

Backfilling behavior of a mixed aggregate based on construction waste and ultrafine tailings

To study the possibility of utilizing mixed construction waste and ultrafine tailings (CW&UT) as a backfilling aggregate that can be placed underground in a mine, physicochemical evaluation, proportioning strength tests, and pumpability experiments were conducted. It was revealed that mixed CW&UT can be used as a backfilling aggregate due to the complementarities of their physicochemical proper...