In Chile, metal mining is concentrated between the Administrative Regions IV and VI (which includes Metropolitan Region). The northern central zones of country have abundant copper as well mineral iodine iron. Today, these residues are stored in tailing dams. Mine tailings constitute toxic composed trace elements, which many occasions deposited areas neighboring human settlements a health hazar...

agh darreh tailing dam located in 23 km north of takab, west azarbayjan province is used for disposal of mine tailings. the tailing dam and its reservoir were constructed on gypsiferous marlstones. this is emphasis on geotechnical and environmental importance of the site. although construction of dams on gypsum rocks were not yet prohibited, but the dissolution of gypsum in contact with water i...

The copper sulphide mining process would produce a large number of tailings that can be treated with different substrates so as to act guest soil in the ecological reclamation mine. In order reveal influence tailing treatment on plant growth, this experiment, tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea) was planted under potted conditions for purpose exploring effect exogenous such conditioning agents, su...

This work presents a quantitative predicting likely acid mine drainage (AMD) generation process throughout tailing particles resulting from the Sarcheshmeh copper mine in the south of Iran. Indeed, four predictive relationships for the remaining pyrite fraction, remaining chalcopyrite fraction, sulfate concentration, and pH have been suggested by applying the gene expression programming (GEP) a...

This study assessed the geochemical impact of mine tailings reclamation on the quality of soils from the AngloGold Concession, Obuasi, Ghana. Soil samples from mine tailings reclamation sites were evaluated for the concentrations of plant nutrients and trace metals. Contaminations of trace metals, using geochemical pollution indices were used to assess possible effects on agriculture and liveli...

Waste copper slag is a typical hazardous solid waste containing variety of valuable elements and has not been effectively disposed so far. In this paper, stepwise extraction process was proposed to recover (copper, iron, lead zinc) from slag. The specific procedures are as follows: (1) A flotation adopted enrich copper, when the grade in concentrate 21.50%, recovery rate 77.78%. (2) tailings we...

Copper smelting slag usually contains 1–6 wt% copper, which can be recovered by pyrometallurgical and flotation processes. However, the tailing slags still consist of 0.3–0.7 Cu 35–45 Fe equivalents to those in copper iron ores, respectively. Most research was focused on recovery from slags. increase mechanical strength, corrosion resistance antibacterial property some steels. A new process rec...

There are numerous examples of past and present mine disposal into freshwater and marine coastal bays and riverine environments. Due to its high spatial resolution and extended water penetration, coastal light detection and ranging (LiDAR), coupled with multispectral scanning (MSS), has great promise for resolving disturbed shoreline features in low turbidity environments. Migrating mine tailin...