Highlights•Pit lakes form from open-cut mines and may have acidic, toxic waters.•Post-
mining, communities derive benefits from sustainable pit lake ecosystems.•An integrated …

Lakes developing in former coal mine pits are often characterized by high concentrations of
sulfate and iron and low pH. The review focuses on the causes for and fate of acidity in these …

Water is needed at mine sites for dust suppression, mineral processing, coal washing, and
hydrometallurgical extraction. For these applications, water is mined from surface water …

Hydrology is a relatively young science, which has developed gradually out of the hydraulic
expedients which underpin much of civil engineering practice. Indeed, the emergence of …

Groundwater Geochemistry: Fundamentals and Applications to Contamination examines the
integral role geochemistry play s in groundwater monitoring and remediation programs, and …

To evaluate the microbial populations involved in the reduction of Fe (III) in an acidic, iron-
rich sediment, the anaerobic flow of supplemental carbon and reductant was evaluated in …

Pit lakes form when open-pit mining operations are discontinued and dewatering ceases.
The increase in open-pit metal mining since the 1970s will lead to the formation of numerous …

Ecotoxicologists ultimately endeavor to understand the attributes of toxicants in the real
world. Although controlled studies can contribute to that understanding, they are often …

Intense sand and gravel mining has created numerous man-made lakes around the world in
the past century. These small quarry lakes (1–50 ha) are usually hydrologically isolated …

The Rio Tinto and Rio Odiel drain the Iberian Pyrite Belt, an important metal-rich sulphide
deposit. The rivers are highly acidic (pH 2.2–3.6) and have milli-molar SO4 and Fe …