Mining and Its Impact on the Environment

✍ Scribed by Bell & Donnelly

• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 561
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Winner of the 2007 E.B. Burwell, Jr. Award of the Geological Society of America Mining activity has left a legacy of hazards to the environment, such as waste, unstable ground and contamination, which can be problematic when redeveloping land. This book highlights the effects of past mining and provides information on the types of problems it may cause in both urban and rural areas. By way of example, the book also demonstrates how such problems may be anticipated, investigated, predicted, prevented and controlled. Furthermore, it shows how sites already affected by mining problems and hazards can be remediated and rehabilitated. Covering subsidence, surface mining, disposal of waste, problems resulting from mine closure and mineral processing, Mining and its Impact on the Environment is an excellent reference for practising mining and geotechnical engineers, as well as students in this field.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Series-Title......Page 3
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
1. Introduction......Page 12
2. Subsidence due to the partial extraction of stratiform mineral deposits......Page 34
3. Longwall mining and subsidence......Page 100
4. Metalliferous mining and subsidence......Page 181
5. Abstraction of fluids and subsidence......Page 224
6. Quarrying and surface mining......Page 301
7. Waste materials from mining and their disposal......Page 353
8. Mine effluents and acid mine drainage......Page 398
9. Dereliction and contamination associated with mining and related industries......Page 457
10. Other problems associated with mining......Page 503
Index......Page 554