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This chapter describes several major projects undertaken by Boojum Research since 1982 in Canada, Brazil, and Germany. These projects ran between 5 and 16 years. The biological polishing tool reduced the concentrations of arsenic and nickel in a 5 million cubic meter pit lake and also the concentrations of zinc and iron from the effluent of a gloryhole using a series of polishing ponds. In Germany, a constructed wetland with rooted vascular plants was expected to reduce the concentrations of radionuclides, arsenic and iron from the effluent of a uranium mine. The removal was inefficient. The settling pond of the constructed wetland was used as a pilot system, by suspending curtains and introducing Chara, the multitasking alga, to sequester contaminants.
Using Carbonaceous Phosphate Mining Waste (CPMW), Acid Reduction Using Microbiology (ARUM) and biological polishing, a complete decommissioning concept was developed for an operating zinc mine in Quebec. Similarly, all tools were partially scaled up at a copper-zinc mine in northern Ontario. Finally, a coarse coal pile in Nova Scotia was treated with CPMW and compared to other piles treated with limestone, and at a different Nova Scotian site, the tools were used to treat effluents from waste coal tailings.
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Kalin-Seidenfaden, M. (2022). R&D Field Applications. In: Kalin-Seidenfaden, M., Wheeler, W.N. (eds) Mine Wastes and Water, Ecological Engineering and Metals Extraction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84651-0_9
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