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The New Uranium Mining Boom

Challenge and lessons learned

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Editors:
  1. Broder Merkel

    1. Institute for Geology, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Germany

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  2. Mandy Schipek

    1. Institute for Geology, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Germany

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Table of contents (96 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Plenary

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Marie Curie and the Discovery of Radium

      • Fernando P. Carvalho
      Pages 3-13

  3. Renaissance of Uranium Mining

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. License Procedure for Uranium Recovery from Talvivaara Deposit, Eastern Finland

      • Ari Luukkonen, Esko Ruokola
      Pages 17-22

    3. New Uranium ISR Satellites at Beverley North, South Australia

      • Horst Märten, Richard Phillips, Peter Woods
      Pages 23-30

    4. Waste Water Treatment of CO2 + O2 in-situ Leaching Uranium

      • Lechang Xu, Naizhong Liu, Guofu Zhang
      Pages 31-37

    5. Radiation Protection and Environmental Safety Surveillance in Uranium Mining and Ore Processing in India

      • A.H. Khan, V.D. Puranik
      Pages 39-49

    6. Estimates of Effective Doses Among Czech Uranium Miners

      • Ladislav Tomasek, Jiri Hulka, Petr Rulik, Helena Mala, Irena Malatova, Vera Beckova
      Pages 51-55

    7. Evaluation of Transboundary Impact of Toxic Metals of Uranium Mine Mailoo-Suu (Kyrgyzstan)

      • V.B. Aparin, J.P. Voronova, S.K. Smirnova
      Pages 57-64

    8. Uranium in Water and Sediments of the Mulde River

      • Stefan Bister, Torben Lüllau, Florian Koenn, Maruta Bunka, Jonny Birkhan, Beate Riebe et al.
      Pages 65-72

    9. Assessment of Background Uranium Concentration in Groundwater Around a Proposed Mining Area

      • K. Brindha, L. Elango, R.N. Nair
      Pages 73-80

    10. Geochemistry of Radionuclides in Groundwaters at the Former Uranium and Radium Mining Region of Sabugal, Portugal

      • Fernando P. Carvalho, João M. Oliveira, W. Eberhard Falck
      Pages 81-90

    11. Simulation of Radionuclide Transport and Fate in Surface Waters in the Vicinity of a Past Uranium Processing Plant

      • Maria de Lurdes Dinis, António Fiúza
      Pages 91-100

    12. Neutralisation and Trace Element Removal from Beverley in-situ Recovery Uranium Mine Barren Lixiviant via Hydrotalcite Formation

      • Grant Douglas, Laura Wendling, Kayley Usher, Peter Woods
      Pages 101-109

    13. Concentration of U and Th in the Bloedkoppie Granite, Namibia

      • Fred Kamona
      Pages 111-118

    14. Concentration Dynamics and Speciation of Uranium in a Boreal Forest Creek – Six Years of Weekly Observations

      • Stefan Karlsson, Bert Allard
      Pages 119-126

    15. Uranium Pollution of Grand Water in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan

      • Yoshiko Kawabata, Masaaki Yamada, Onwona-Agyman Siaw, Aparin Vyacheslav, Berdiyar Jollibekov, Masahiro Nagai et al.
      Pages 127-134

    16. Environmental Impact of the Kadji-Sai Uranium Tailing Site, Kyrgyzstan

      • Zheenbek Kulenbekov, Broder J. Merkel
      Pages 135-142

    17. Assessment of Distribution Coefficients (Кd) of Radionuclides of the Uranium-Thorium Chain in the Uranium Manufacturing Tailing Dumps

      • Valentyn Protsak, Valery Kasparov, Igor Maloshtan, Sviatoslav Levchuk, Vasyl Yoschenko, Irina Kalyabina et al.
      Pages 143-150
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About this book

The book presents the results from the Uranium Mining and Hydrogeology Conference (UMH VI) held in September 2011, in Freiberg, Germany. The following subjects are emphasised: Uranium Mining, Phosphate Mining and Uranium recovery. Cleaning up technologies for water and soil. Analysis and sensor for Uranium and Radon and Modelling.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Geology, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Germany

    Broder Merkel, Mandy Schipek

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The New Uranium Mining Boom

  • Book Subtitle: Challenge and lessons learned

  • Editors: Broder Merkel, Mandy Schipek

  • Series Title: Springer Geology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22122-4

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-22121-7Published: 30 September 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-52072-7Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-22122-4Published: 05 October 2011

  • Series ISSN: 2197-9545

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-9553

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 848

  • Topics: Mineral Resources, Hydrogeology

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