There are various existing practices and future potential for turning mining waste into
valuable products. The inventory of the tailings in the metal mines in Finland showed that …

In the last thirty years, portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) has grown from prototypes to
being a key technique for field geochemical analyses, especially for mining and …

Current management of mining waste is based on linear economy thinking. However, the
use of mining waste as a raw material resource can be one solution to the limited metal …

The demand on especially clean energy metals is growing exponentially creating a clear
need to diversify the metals supply. Metal recovery from various waste deposits could be …

Mining resources have played a leading role in the development of humanity, and the
demand for these raw materials is expected to increase in the foreseeable future. In addition …

The mineral processing industry is pivotal in natural resource extraction and historically
contributes to environmental damages like land degradation and groundwater …

The concept of mining or extracting valuable metals and minerals from technospheric stocks
is referred to as technospheric mining. As potential secondary sources of valuable materials …

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia covers an area of approximately 2 million km2 and is rich in
natural resources that are necessary for industrial development. The estimated mineral …

Mining activities are prolific worldwide in light of the perpetual production of metal. The high
need for metal materials in human life necessitates the development of mining operations …

We examined the national mine waste registries from seven European countries, created to
fulfil the requirements of the “Mine Waste Directive”(2006/21/EC), for their potential use as …