Formation of acid mine drainage (AMD) is a widespread environmental issue that has not
subsided throughout decades of continuing research. Highly acidic and highly concentrated …

The wide occurrence of Cd-contaminated rice in southern China poses significant public
health risk and deserves immediate action, which arises primarily from extensive metal …

On a global scale demand for the products of the extractive industries is ever increasing.
Extraction of the targeted resource results in the concurrent production of a significant …

The attention of mining industry has directed towards the processing of complex arsenic-
bearing minerals due to a decrease in the traditional base metal reserves. Arsenic present in …

Abandoned tailings are one of the most important sources of heavy metal pollution in the
areas surrounding mining districts, and significant leaching of heavy metals could be …

Although metal ore mining activities are well known as an important source of heavy metals,
soil pollution caused by small-scale mining activities has long been overlooked. This study …

Environment-friendly, function tunable, and low-cost adsorbents/amendments from
agricultural residue-derived biochar show enormous potential for mitigating the environment …

The leaching of heavy metals (HMs) from lead-zinc mine tailings caused by natural
precipitation and the subsequent migration and transformation characteristics in paddy soil …

Given the increasingly serious problem of arsenic-contaminated soil, biochar-loaded
nanoscale zero-valent iron (nZVI@ BC) was prepared in this study for remediation of arsenic …

As the most widely scattered toxic metal in the world, the sources of lead (Pb) observed in
contamination investigation are often difficult to identify. This review presents an overview of …