Mine tailings are detrimental to natural plant growth due to their physicochemical
characteristics, such as high pH, high salinity, low water retention capacity, high heavy metal …

Most worldwide policy frameworks, including the United Nations Sustainable Development
Goals, highlight soil as a key non-renewable natural resource which should be rigorously …

Tailings are the waste materials generated from mining activities and are typically stored in
large man-made earthen dams in the form of slurry. Failures of such tailings dams can have …

On a global scale, the demand for mineral products has increased substantially with
economic development. Consequently, the mining of mineral resources results in the …

The impacts of the SAMARCO iron tailing spill along more than 650 km, between the dam
and the plume of the Doce River in the Atlantic, were assessed by the determination of toxic …

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 …

Acid mine drainage (AMD) is a highly acidic solution rich in heavy metals and produced by
mining activities. It can severely inhibit the growth of plants, and microbial communities and …

Waste materials from metal mining, such as mineral tailings, often contain significant
amounts of potentially valuable metals particularly where, as in many historic operations, the …

Gold mining is a major source of metal and metalloid emissions into the environment.
Studies were carried out in Krugersdorp, South Africa, to evaluate the ecological and human …

The use of ecosystem service maps for conservation planning is increasing. However, their
potential for measuring the benefits derived from protected areas has rarely been studied …