This study characterises the total As concentrations and As bioaccessibility in 109 soils from Devon Great Consols Mine, an abandoned Cu-As mine in Devon, SW England, UK and discusses the soil and mineralogical factors that influence the bioaccessibility of this element. These data provide the basis for developing more accurate exposure estimates for use in human health risk assessments. The me...

A rockburst is a violent failure of a mine opening and is usually associated with deep mining operations. The objective of this research is to detect and reduce rockburst hazards by studying seismic energy release, geostructural data including mine opening closure rates, and in situ stress measurements. Little progress has been made in determining mechanisms of rockbursts, but improved methods ...

Noise emissions are a significant environmental impact caused by the mining industry in all technological phases of surface mining, mineral processing, and waste disposal. This paper presents role noise assessment control large-scale operations. Mine planning develops model operations, ore excavation, dumping scheduling processing rates, including spatial distribution activities. Such level min...

Various analyses of physico-chemical characteristics and batch tests were conducted with the sludge obtained from a full-scale electrolysis facility for treating coal mine drainage in order to find the applicability of sludge as a material for removing Zn(II) in an aqueous phase. The physico-chemical analysis results indicated that coal mine drainage sludge (CMDS) had a high specific surface ar...

Differential SAR Interferometry (D-InSAR) is an effective tool in monitoring land subsidence because of its greater coverage area and better resolution of height change. A series of Japanese Earth Resources Satallite-1 (JERS-1) images from 1992 to 1998 has been used in monitoring the mine subsidence in the test site of this study, one of the important coal mining areas in China. D-InSAR procedu...

Air movement and associated oxygen transport through waste rock dumps has the potential to significantly enhance the rate of oxidation of pyrite-bearing material. While this is a desired outcome for most heap leach operations, airflow in waste rock storage facilities can result in significant increases in generation and acceleration of acid rock drainage. Hence, a good understanding of internal...

Prediction of drainage quantity and quality is critical to reduce the environmental risks associated with weathering mine waste rock. Reactive transport models can be effective tools understand disentangle processes underlying waste-rock drainage, but their validity applicability impaired by poor parametrization non-uniqueness conundrum. Here, a process-based multicomponent reactive model prese...