Fly ash generates as the result of coal combustion in thermoelectric power stations whereas
ore mining activities produce mine waste-rock and tailings worldwide. High concentrations …

A field investigation on the content of heavy metals in soils and dominant plants was
conducted in three sites (A< 0.5 km, B< 1.0 km, C< 1.5 km) with different distances of mine …

A bibliographic review was carried out to establish the state of knowledge of a mining area
with several centuries of exploitation and currently abandoned. The selected case study, the …

The drivers and mechanisms underlying succession and the spontaneous formation of plant
communities in mining wasteland remain largely unknown. This study investigated the use …

Metal mining in drylands generates waste tailings with high toxicity, physical instability, as
well as water and thermal stresses that hamper their biological colonization. This limits the …

The aim of this study was to develop an effective and non-destructive method for the
selection of native Mediterranean plants with phytoremediation potential based on their …

Creation of Technosols by use of different materials can be a sustainable strategy to reclaim
mine tailings spread on the environment. A proper selection of materials is critical to …

This study aimed to evaluate whether the improvement in soil conditions induced by the
vegetation spontaneously colonizing abandoned metal (loid) mine tailings from semiarid …

This work studies a set of soil indicators (physical, physico-chemical and biological),
evaluated under field and laboratory conditions, in different stages of spontaneous …

The goal of this work was to assess the selection of the most suitable combination of plant
species for the phytomanagement of mine tailings, by comparing among different plant life …