Flooded Underground Mines: Case Studies

Abstract

In the following chapter, 13 case studies for flooded underground mines are described in detail (Fig. 96). The first six examples focus on sites with stratified mine water, where no tracer test has been conducted so far, whereas another six examples are flooded underground mines where extensive tracer tests have been carried out to evaluate the hydrodynamic regime of the mine. The last section summarises salt mine examples. All known and published investigations are described and discussed in this chapter. How the knowledge gained about the hydrodynamics of mine water and potential stratification might be used as a remediation measure is addressed at the end of section 12.9.4.