The increasing generation of toxic heavy metals from smelting activities poses significant
threat to food safety, human health, and soil ecosystem, due to their unacceptable exposure …

China's copper resources are characterized by low grade and complex composition. A large
amount of copper smelting slag (CSS) containing valuable elements such as copper and …

Anionic polyacrylamide (APAM) has widely been employed in backfill mining to accelerate
the sedimentation of fine tailings particles and increase the concentration of tailings slurry …

Sulfidic mine waste can pose environmental and human health risks, especially when it
contains high levels of mobile metal (loid) s. To assess the environmental and health risks of …

Smelting activity by its very nature produces large amounts of metal-bearing waste, often
called metallurgical slag (s). In the past, industry used to dispose of these waste products at …

Worldwide, an issue of copper production is the generation of mine waste with varying
characteristics. This waste can pollute natural environments, and in particular, the heavy …

The construction industry is one of the largest CO 2 emitters worldwide. This review outlines
all existing CO 2 capture technologies in the construction-related industry which are mainly …

Smelting slags must be classified as a typical hazardous solid, which represents the most
important point sources of potentially harmful elements. In addition, it can be known that …

Separating copper and arsenic has always been a major problem in the copper slag
flotation process, which influences copper slag utilization and the environmental safety. A …

Arsenic in copper flash smelting (FS) systems not only affects the quality of products but also
poses significant technological and environmental problems. Based on the assessment of …