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Mine Wastes, December 2011, Vol. 7, No. 6
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Since the dawn of civilization, humankind has been extracting metals and minerals for the production of goods, energy, and building materials. These mining activities have created great wealth, but they have also produced colossal quantities of solid and liquid wastes, known collectively as “mine wastes.
Mine Wastes
December 2011, Vol. 7, No. 6
Since the dawn of civilization, humankind has been extracting metals and minerals for the production of goods, energy, and building materials. These mining activities have created great wealth, but they have also produced colossal quantities of solid and liquid wastes, known collectively as “mine wastes.” Mine wastes represent the greatest proportion of waste produced by industrial activity. In fact, the quantity of solid mine wastes and the quantity of Earth materials moved by fundamental global geological processes are of the same order of magnitude—approximately several thousand million tons per year. Therefore, the large-scale production, secure disposal, and sustainable remediation of mine wastes represent problems of global significance. Over the past 10–15 years, novel geochemical, mineralogical, microbiological and toxicological techniques have led to a much better understanding of the character, weathering mechanisms, long-term stability, ecotoxicology, and remediation of mine wastes. This issue of Elements brings readers up to date with these current findings and highlights new frontiers for mine waste research.
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