Soil contamination with heavy metals (HMs) is a serious concern for the developing world
due to its non-biodegradability and significant potential to damage the ecosystem and …

Mining operations are inherently associated with dust generation, which is detrimental to
cleaner production in mines. Exposure to airborne respirable dust causes serious health …

Enhanced silicate rock weathering (ERW), deployable with croplands, has potential use for
atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) removal (CDR), which is now necessary to mitigate …

Over the last two decades, mining and mineral exploration companies have adopted various
environmental management practices in response to society's pressure for better …

Searching for alternative materials to reduce the extraction of natural resources is key to a
more sustainable world and relevant to construction and infrastructure projects in which …

Quartz sand is a kind of advanced aggregate and can be utilized to produce Ultra-High-
Performance-Concrete (UHPC). However, its production process always create …

Presence of fine dust in air causes serious health hazard for mine operators resulting in
such serious problems as coal workers' pneumoconiosis and silicosis. Major sources of dust …

We focus on a comparison of the geochemistry and mineralogy patterns found in coal,
deposited dust (DD), respirable deposited dust (RDD) and inhalable suspended dust …

Increasingly stringent environmental regulations and industry adoption of waste
minimization guidelines have thus, stimulated the need for the development of recycling and …

Mine dust is one of the main hazards in underground longwall mines worldwide. In order to
solve the mine dust problem, a significant number of studies have been carried out …