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Mine Wastes

Characterization, Treatment and Environmental Impacts

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  • © 2007

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Authors:
  1. Bernd G. Lottermoser

    1. School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia

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  • Classification of mine wastes according to their physical and chemical characteristics and presentation of this in individual chapters
  • Case studies from Australia, USA and Europe

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
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  2. Introduction to Mine Wastes

    Pages 1-32

  3. Sulfidic Mine Wastes

    Pages 33-89

  4. Mine Water

    Pages 91-152

  5. Tailings

    Pages 153-181

  6. Cyanidation Wastes of Gold-Silver Ores

    Pages 183-199

  7. Radioactive Wastes of Uranium Ores

    Pages 201-243

  8. Wastes of Phosphate and Potash Ores

    Pages 245-264

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 265-304
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About this book

This book is not designed to be an exhaustive work on mine wastes. It aims to serve undergraduate students who wish to gain an overview and an understanding of wastes produced in the mineral industry. An introductory textbook addressing the science of such wastes is not available to students despite the importance of the mineral industry as a resource, wealth and job provider. Also, the growing importance of the topics “mine wastes”, “mine site pollution” and “mine site rehabilitation” in universities, research - ganizations and industry requires a textbook suitable for undergraduate students. - til recently, undergraduate earth science courses tended to follow rather classical lines, focused on the teaching of palaeontology, crystallography, mineralogy, petrology, stratigraphy, sedimentology, structural geology, and ore deposit geology. However, - day and in the future, earth science teachers and students also need to be familiar with other subject areas. In particular, earth science curriculums need to address land and water degradation as well as rehabilitation issues. These topics are becoming more important to society, and an increasing number of earth science students are pursuing career paths in this sector. Mine site rehabilitation and mine waste science are ex- ples of newly emerging disciplines. This book has arisen out of teaching mine waste science to undergraduate and graduate science students and the frustration at having no appropriate text which documents the scientific fundamentals of such wastes.

Reviews

From the reviews of the second edition:

"This thorough and authoritative reference work on the characterization, prediction, monitoring, treatment, and disposal of mine wastes relates so well to the important environmental impact of energy and mineral resource development … . This well-illustrated second edition (1st ed., 2003) with … abundant references, lists of resource material, lists of appropriate Web sites, and a thorough index, would be an appropriate library holding for science and technology, economics, and environmental matters. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers; upper-division undergraduates through faculty." (W. C. Peters, CHOICE, Vol. 45 (5), January, 2008)

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  • School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia

    Bernd G. Lottermoser

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