Contamination by heavy metals is a significant issue worldwide. In recent decades, soil
heavy metals pollutants in China had adverse impacts on soil quality and threatened food …

Copper slag is generated when copper and nickel ores are recovered from their parent ores
using a pyrometallurgical process, and these ores usually contain other elements which …

For the regulation and remediation of heavy metal-polluted soils in mining areas, it is
important to study the spatial distribution of soil heavy metal accumulation, quantitatively …

Ensuring the supply of critical metallic mineral is vital to addressing climate issues, and
technological change is recognized as an important way to effectively improve the supply of …

The transition towards renewable energy requires increasing quantities of nonfuel mineral
commodities, including tellurium used in certain photovoltaics. While demand for tellurium …

Direct exploitation and use of arsenic resources has diminished in recent years, but
inadvertent mobilizations of As from mineral extractions (metal ores, coal, and phosphate …

Copper, an essential metal for the energy transition, is primarily obtained from chalcopyrite
through hydrometallurgical and pyrometallurgical methods. The risks and harmful impacts of …

In order to reduce the blasting dust concentration in the tunnel during the drilling and
blasting, accelerate the tunnel excavation process, and improve the working environment for …

The remarkable differences in the metallurgical processes of copper and zinc require their
host minerals to be separated as far as possible during beneficiation. For chalcopyrite and …

This article examines the paradox of 'noxious deindustrialisation'–employment
deindustrialisation in areas where significantly noxious industries are still operating–in the …