Mining and its Environmental Impact

Source Edited by R E Hester; University of York, UK R M Harrison; University of Birmingham, UK
ISBN 0 85404 200 8
ISBN-13 9780854042005
Published January 1994
Format Softcover
Extent 180 pages

Price �22.50

Synopsis

This first Issue in the series contains nine articles, written by leading British and American experts from the mining industry, regulatory authorities and academia and incorporates the latest research. Following an introductory overview of many of the issues of current concern to the field, the book deals with a wide variety of topics ranging from the environmental impact of gold mining in the Brazilian Amazon, through the issues relevant to coal mining, vegetative and other remediation strategies and procedures, and water pollution to a thorough analysis of environmental management and policy initiatives. The issues raised in Mining and its Environmental Impact may point the way to future solutions to the economic, technological and environmental problems associated with mining, in all its aspects, and make this volume key reading for practitioners and researchers in the field as well as for environmentalists generally.

Brief Contents

Mining Non-ferrous Metals
The Environmental Impact of Gold Mining in the Brazilian Amazon
Revegetation of Metalliferous Wastes and Land After Metal Mining
Vegetative Remediation at Superfund Sites
Green Coal Mining
Methane Emissions from Coal Mining
Constructing Ecosystems and Detecting their Connectivity to the Larger Ecological Landscape
The Discharge of Waters from Active and Abandoned Mines
Environmental Best-practice in Metals Production
Subject Index