Mining and its Environmental Impact

This first Issue in the series contains nine articles written by experts from the mining industry, regulatory authorities, and academia, and incorporates the latest research.

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.

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.