Environmental Indicators in Metal Mining

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Predictive Environmental Indicators in Metal Mining

      • Bernd Lottermoser

      Pages 3-12

3. Waste Quality

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Principles of Sulfide Oxidation and Acid Rock Drainage

      • Anita Parbhakar-Fox, Bernd Lottermoser

      Pages 15-34

   3. Prediction of Sulfidic Waste Characteristics

      • Anita Parbhakar-Fox, Bernd Lottermoser

      Pages 35-53

   4. Micro-analytical Technologies for Mineral Mapping and Trace Element Deportment

      • Ron F. Berry, Leonid V. Danyushevsky, Karsten Goemann, Anita Parbhakar-Fox, Thomas Rodemann

      Pages 55-72

   5. Predicting Waste Properties Using the Geochemistry-Mineralogy-Texture-Geometallurgy Approach

      • Anita Parbhakar-Fox

      Pages 73-96

   6. Chemical Staining Techniques for Drill Core Characterization

      • Anita Parbhakar-Fox, Nathan Fox, Jake Moltzen, Bernd Lottermoser

      Pages 97-114

   7. Prediction of Acid Rock Drainage Using Field-Based Testing Tools

      • Anita Parbhakar-Fox, John Aalders, Laura Jackson, Bernd Lottermoser

      Pages 115-138

   8. Prediction of Acid Rock Drainage from Automated Mineralogy

      • Anita Parbhakar-Fox, Bernd Lottermoser, Richard Hartner, Ron F. Berry, Taryn L. Noble

      Pages 139-156

   9. Predictive Waste Classification Using Field-Based and Environmental Geometallurgy Indicators, Mount Lyell, Tasmania

      • Anita Parbhakar-Fox, Bernd Lottermoser

      Pages 157-177

   10. Predictive Waste Classification Using the Geochemistry-Mineralogy-Texture-Geometallurgy (GMTG) Approach at a Polymetallic Mine

       • Anita Parbhakar-Fox, Bernd Lottermoser

       Pages 179-196

4. Water Quality

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-197

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   2. pH Testing Methods for Sulfidic Mine Wastes

      • Taryn L. Noble, Bernd Lottermoser, Anita Parbhakar-Fox

      Pages 199-210

   3. Modified Abrasion pH and NAGpH Testing of Minerals

      • Taryn L. Noble, Bernd Lottermoser

      Pages 211-220

   4. Prediction of Leachate Quality for a Gossan Dump, Angostura, Spain

      • Anita Parbhakar-Fox, Julie Hunt, Bernd Lottermoser, Eleanor M. van Veen, Nathan Fox

      Pages 221-241

   5. Prediction of Metal Mobility from Sulfidic Waste Rocks Using Micro-analytical Tools, Baal Gammon, Northern Australia

      • Nathan Fox, Anita Parbhakar-Fox, Bernd Lottermoser

      Pages 243-262

   6. Prediction of Metal Mobility from Sulfidic Waste Rocks Using Micro-Analytical Tools, Spray, Tasmania

      • Nathan Fox, Anita Parbhakar-Fox, Bernd Lottermoser

      Pages 263-277

5. Air Quality

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 279-279

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This book represents an important new contribution to the literature that presents practical and comprehensive solutions to mining activities. Its timely content has been prepared by several experts from around the world and its practical format addresses the major environmental predictive techniques required for the extraction and processing of metal resources. Packed with reviews and case studies, it covers current methods used to forecast environmental effects of metal mining.

• Environmental Indicators
• Mine Wastes
• Mining
• Prediction
• Risk Assessment
• Water Treatment Metal Industry
• mineral resources
• water quality and water pollution

• Institute of Mineral Resources Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

  Bernd Lottermoser

Bernd Lottermoser is a professor in Sustainable Resource Extraction and Director of the Institute of Mineral Resources Engineering at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. In his varied career, he has worked in the mining industry and also in research and academic instruction in Australian, British and German universities. He has authored and coauthored over 200 scientific publications and reports in numerous earth science fields.

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