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Urban mine tailings and efflorescent crusts: unveiling health implications in Nacozari de García, Mexico
Nacozari de García situated in Mexico's second most significant porphyry Cu district hosts the largest urban historical mine tailings in Sonora. This...
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Partition of Rare Earth Elements Between Sulfate Salts Formed by the Evaporation of Acid Mine Drainage
Acid mine drainage (AMD) contains rare earth element (REE) concentrations several orders of magnitude higher than those of the rest of natural waters...
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Selective Grain Size Fractionation, CO2-Enhanced Aqueous Extraction and Characterization of Trona, a Non-marine Evaporite Mineral, Originating from Semi-arid Soil Sediments
Beneficiation of white-powdery mineral, from selective grain size (63–200 µm) sand fractions and its characterization as trona, a non-marine...
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Lake Nakuru and Lake Elmenteita
Lakes Nakuru and Elmenteita lie in the semi-arid central Kenya Rift just south of the equator. Both are shallow saline, alkaline playa lakes...
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Understanding the Mechanisms and Implications of the First Flush in Mine Pools: Insights from Field Studies in Europe’s Deepest Metal Mine and Analogue Modelling
The chemical composition of mine water discharged from flooded underground mines typically improves over time. This phenomenon is called first flush...
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Lake Magadi and Nasikie Engida
Lake Magadi, a hypersaline alkaline lake, occupies a hydrological sump (~600 m) in volcanic terrain (mainly trachyte) in the axial graben of the...
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Diurnal to seasonal dynamics of saline pan evaporation and groundwater level fluctuations, Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, USA
Saline pans are environments with ephemeral to persistent evaporite crusts, surface and groundwater brine, little to no vegetation, and low...
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Distribution of heavy metals polluting the soil near an abandoned mine in Northwestern Mexico
Abandoned mine wastes pollute the soil in their vicinities and threaten the health of livestock and human beings. This is the situation around San...
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Lake Logipi and the Suguta Valley
The north-south trending Suguta Valley is defined by monoclines and faults along its lateral margins. The valley is separated from Lake Turkana to...
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Lake Processes and Sedimentation
The Kenya Rift lakes occupy grabens, sag basins, and depressions dammed by faulting and volcanic rocks. Modern lakes range from shallow (<1 m,...
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Environmental Background to the Kenya Rift Lakes: An Introduction
A broad background to the environmental setting of the modern Kenya Rift is presented to assist with understanding of older Neogene and modern lakes...
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Structure and morphological characteristics of polygonal salt crust, the West Juyan Lake, China
Polygonal salt crust patches (PSCPs) in modern playas have critical hydrologic implications for arid areas, but the morphology and origin of these...
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The polychrome tilework on the tomb of Sultan Alauddin Ahmad Shah, Bidar, India
Twelve fragments of glazed tiles from the fifteenth century tomb of Alauddin Ahmad Shah in Bidar, India, were investigated by scanning electron...
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Role of Secondary Sulfate Minerals on Metal Recycling in an Abandoned Copper Deposit: Kuvarshan (Artvin), Northeastern Turkey
Mine tailings left at abandoned sulfide mine sites can seriously threaten surrounding ecosystems and cause soil and water pollution. This study...
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Impacts of an Internal Finer-Textured Layer on Soil Evaporation and Salt Distribution
AbstractPrevious investigations have demonstrated that an internal finer-textured soil layer will reduce the vertical water flow rate and increase...
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Alternative Methods for the Management of Mine Water
This chapter describes different methods that cannot generally be described as active or passive. They can be applied particularly when very special...
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Lake Bogoria
Saline alkaline Lake Bogoria occupies a narrow half-graben in a drainage basin floored by volcanic rocks of Miocene to Pleistocene age. The perennial...
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Introduction
This chapter starts with a description of how this book came about and what the intentions of the book are. The aim of this chapter is to give you an...
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Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Rural Road Dust and Nearby Mine Tailings: A Case of Ignored Pollution Hazard from an Abandoned Mining Site in Semi-arid Zone
Abandoned mine tailings are considered as one of the main sources of potentially toxic elements. Because of the lack of supervision, particularly...
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A Multiple Interactive Continua Model (MINC) to Simulate Reactive Mass Transport in a Post-Mining Coal Zone: A Case Study of the Ibbenbüren Westfield
We tested the suitability of the multiple interactive continua approach (MINC) to simulate reactive mass transport in a disturbed post-mining coal...
