Innovations in Sustainable Mining

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. A Sustainable Approach to Transforming Mining Waste into Value-Added Products

   • Sanjeevani Jawadand, Kirtikumar Randive

   Pages 1-20

3. Utilization of Aluminium Industry Solid Waste (Red Mud/Bauxite Residue) in Pollution Control

   • Suchita Rai, Sneha Bahadure, M. J. Chaddha, Anupam Agnihotri

   Pages 21-43

4. Aluminum Dross: Value Added Products to Achieve Zero Waste

   • Upendra Singh

   Pages 45-56

5. Value Addition of Alumino-Silicates: Consolidation of Mining Rejects and Industrial Slag by Geo-Polymerization

   • P. A. Mohamed Najar, Amrita Karn, Vishakha Sakhare, Mukesh Jitsingh Chaddha, Anupam Agnihotri

   Pages 57-70

6. Metallurgical and Mining Waste Utilization in Preparation of Geo-Polymeric Bricks as the Future Construction Material

   • Sneha Dandekar, Kavita Deshmukh, Bhagyashree Bangalkar, Pooja Zingare, Dilip Peshwe, Kirtikumar Randive

   Pages 71-84

7. Beneficiation of Low-Grade Bauxite: A Case Study of Lateritic Bauxite of India

   • P. G. Bhukte, G. T. Daware, S. P. Masurkar, M. J. Chaddha, Anupam Agnihotri

   Pages 85-98

8. Bauxite Beneficiation: An Approach to Value Addition in Mining

   • Basudeb Datta, Ashok Nandi

   Pages 99-114

9. Arsenic, from a Woeful Environmental Hazard to a Wishful Exploration Tool: A Case Study of Arsenic Contaminated Groundwater of Chakariya Area, Singrauli District, Madhya Pradesh, India

   • Gladson Bage, Tushar Meshram, Srinivasa Rao Baswani, M. L. Dora, Ajay Kumar Talwar, Abhinav Om Kinker et al.

   Pages 115-138

10. Recovery of Valuable Metals (Rare-Earths) from Phosphate Fertiliser Waste (Phosphogypsum)

    • Yamuna Singh

    Pages 139-148

11. Harnessing the Potential of Microbes for Rejuvenating Soils from Mining Sites: An Initiative for Environmental Balance and Value Addition

    • Anand Barapatre, Nishant Burnase, Reena Das, Shraddha Jaiswal

    Pages 149-181

12. Reduction of Hexavalent Chromium Using Microbial Remediation: A Case Study of Pauni and Taka Chromite Mines, Central India

    • Shweta V. Deote, A. B. Ingle, Swapnil Magar, Ruchika Jain

    Pages 183-201

13. Managing Water Quality in Mining Areas: Changing Paradigm of Sustainability

    • Rajani Tumane, Shubhangi Pingle, Aruna Jawade, Kirtikumar Randive

    Pages 203-217

14. Mineral and Mining Wastes: A Burgeoning Problem with a Need for Sustainable Restitution

    • Nikhil P. Kulkarni

    Pages 219-231

15. Distinctive Bats Species in Abandoned Mines: Adventure Geotourism for Nature Enthusiasts

    • Madhuri Thakare, Kirtikumar Randive

    Pages 233-250

This book explores sustainable mining knowledge, assessing researchers on the impacts of waste and new approaches to negotiating these impacts. Mining has always been a profitable venture; however, it comes with several boons and banes. The significant advantages of mining include employment generation, the establishment of townships and trade centers, and socio-economic growth. However, the mining activity is a significant cause of environmental degradation, including soils, atmosphere, water, solid wastes, changed topography, and health hazards. This book emphasizes value-added products from mining wastes and innovations for balancing environment, ecology, and economy. 


This book is designed for miners, policymakers, professionals, researchers, scientists, industrialists, and environmental agencies.

• Value-added Products
• Sustainable Mining
• Circular Economy
• Environment
• Bio-remediation

• Department of Geology, Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur (MH), India

  Kirtikumar Randive

• Regional Occupational Health Centre (Southern), National Institute of Occupational Health, Bengaluru (KA), India

  Shubhangi Pingle

• Jawaharlal Nehru Aluminium Research, Development, and Design Centre, Nagpur (MH), India

  Anupam Agnihotri

Dr. Kirtikumar R. Randive is presently working as Professor at the Department of Geology, RTM Nagpur University, Nagpur, India. Initially, Dr. Randive served the Geological Survey of India as Geologist. He published extensively in national and international journals, including two monographs, one each on Geochemistry (RPS, Singapore) and Mineral Economics (Nova, New York). He has edited two special issues of reputed international journals and presently working as an Editor of the De Gruyters Journal Open Geoscience. Dr. Randive was the member of 31st Indian Expedition to Antarctica and Visiting Fellow to the University of Portsmouth, UK (2018).

Dr. Shubhangi Pingle is presently working as Scientist-D, Scientist-D, Regional Occupational Health Centre (Southern), ICMR Complex, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. She has published 110 research papers in national and international journals. She has 15 years of research experience in proteomics, diagnostic biomarkers,development of ELISA, and animal cell culture biology. She received funding for her research from SERB, DST, DBT, ICMR, CSIR, MOM, and CMPDI. She has one Indian Patent granted and 9 submitted. She is a recognized guide in Clinical Biochemistry and Medical Biotechnology at Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, DEEMED University, Nagpur.

 An IIT-Kanpur alumnus, Dr. Anupam Agnihotri has a Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Materials and Metallurgical Engineering from VNIT, Nagpur. Under UNDP, he has served as a Visiting Faculty to the University of Quebec in Canada as well as the Hungarian Research Institute under United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Dr. Agnihotri is deeply involved in research activities on aluminium technology related to energy audit, environmental monitoring, material characterization, modernization programs, low-cost material alternatives, etc. He is an author of over more than 54 research papers and co-inventor of 12 patents. Dr. Anupam Agnihotri is working as Director, Jawaharlal Nehru Aluminium Research Development and Design Centre, Nagpur. He is holding additional charge of Managing Director, Bharat Gold Mines Limited (BGML), and of Director, National Institute of Miners Health.

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