Classification and Environmental Impact of Mine Dumps

Microstructural and chemical characterization of stabilized spent vanadium pentoxide catalyst in copper smelting slag

“…Unsustainable economic activities generate a wide range of pollutants that have negatively impacted the environment [1][2][3]. Some of these pollutants are toxic compounds that have severe effects on the health of living beings [1,2].…”

“…Unsustainable economic activities generate a wide range of pollutants that have negatively impacted the environment [1][2][3]. Some of these pollutants are toxic compounds that have severe effects on the health of living beings [1,2]. Further, it has been proved that they affect the ecological balance of the environment, threatening plants, animals, and the human population [1][2][3].…”

“…Some of these pollutants are toxic compounds that have severe effects on the health of living beings [1,2]. Further, it has been proved that they affect the ecological balance of the environment, threatening plants, animals, and the human population [1][2][3]. In particular, the extractive metallurgical processes that are involved in the mining activities generate large amounts of toxic waste composed of minerals and significant amounts of slag [1][2][3][4].…”

“…Further, it has been proved that they affect the ecological balance of the environment, threatening plants, animals, and the human population [1][2][3]. In particular, the extractive metallurgical processes that are involved in the mining activities generate large amounts of toxic waste composed of minerals and significant amounts of slag [1][2][3][4]. Without proper handling and disposal, this waste is potentially dangerous to the environment due to its toxicity [1][2][3].…”

Technogenic Impact of Sulphide-Containing Wastes Produced by Ore Mining and Processing at the Ozernoe Deposit: Investigation and Forecast

“…The negative environmental impact of mining enterprises raises annually (Bwapwa et al, 2017;Pashkevich, Petrova, 2017;Simate, Ndlovu, 2014). This is due to an objectively increased consumption of material resources by mankind (Alekseenko et al, 2017a;Beloglazov et al, 2014;Cehlár et al, 2016;Gumenik et al, 1988;Pashkevich, 2017). In modern extraction conditions, the output of finished products is less than 10 %; the rest is made of mining and processing wastes, which occupy hundreds of thousands of hectares (Pashkevich, Petrova, 2015;Pavolová et al, 2016).…”