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Gold mining produces hazardous tailings wastes with elevated sulfur content and high levels of heavy metals including oxyanion elements such as V and As. …

This method would minimize the storage problems of mining waste dumps and water control structures and increase the stabilization and immobilization of heavy metals (Komnitsas and Zaharaki, 2007). Although several researchers have studied the paste backfill method from sulphidic mine tailings, few have studied the utilization of …

Gold mining is associated with serious heavy metal pollution problems. However, the studies on such pollution caused by gold mining in specific geological environments and extraction processes …

This review focuses on the effects of heavy metal wastes generated from gold mining activities on the environment and the various mechanisms used by bacteria …

1. Introduction. As one of the key elements of the Earth's Critical Zone, the pedosphere is the most active layer on the epigeosphere (Lin, 2011; Xu and Huang, 2009; Wilding and Lin, 2006; Lin et al., 2005), and the healthy development of the soil ecosystem is closely related to human well-being.However, soil pollution has become a serious …

Twenty soil samples were collected from North of Atbara (Dar-Mali locality),River Nile State, Sudan (17.82289 to 17.82389N and 33.99974 to 34.02127E) inside and outside gold mining area in order ...

This paper describes the mineralogical properties of gold tailings, including chemical composition, phase composition, particle size distribution, and microstructure; …

Looking at the importance of mining, despite the fact that it poses a threat to the environment and human health, this chapter provides a preliminary assessment of the risks associated with the present mining activities of gold involving artisanal, small-scale, and industrial gold mining. It has been found that heavy metals (metalloids) are ...

Gold mining is associated with serious heavy metal pollution problems. However, the studies on such pollution caused by gold mining in specific geological environments and extraction processes remain insufficient. This study investigated the accumulation, fractions, sources and influencing factors of arsenic and heavy metals in …

1 State Key Laboratory of Comprehensive Utilization of Low-Grade Refractory Gold Ores, Zijin Mining Group Co ... such as As, Pb, Zn, Mn, Cr, and Cd. In the process of copper mining, these coexisting …

The main objective of this study is to assess the level of heavy metals pollution in soil samples collected around gold mines located in Betaré Oya (BO) and Batouri (BA) in Eastern Cameroon. Elemental analysis of soil samples was carried out using Quant´X EDXRF spectrometer. Its sensitivity and accuracy were increased by using the …

1. Introduction. Non-ferrous metal mining causes severe contamination of As and heavy metals (HMs). Due to the increasing activity and mobility in water [1,2], sediments are one of the major destinations for As and HMs migration and diffusion in the water [2,3].As and HMs accumulated in sediments are often tens or even hundreds of times the amount in …

mercury heavy metal waste which mainly comes from gold mining waste and gold processing. In this study, a number of Lapindo mud samples that have been activated previously using HCl solutions with different concentrations were tested to adsorb the remaining active ingredients of heavy metal Hg. 2. Materials and Methods Used 2.1 …

heavy metals utilization gold mining T11:08:38+00:00; Heavy Metal Pollution from Gold Mines: Environmental . This review focuses on environmental impacts of increasing heavy metal pollution caused by gold mining activities on human health and the environment and how bacteria interact with these metals 2 Gold Processing and …

Heavy metals are introduced to the soil through parent rocks and anthropogenic activities. Mining, seepage from landfills, pesticide application, industrial effluents, and irrigation of soil with ...

In addition, arsenic and most tested heavy metals have different pollution and ecological risks, especially As and Sb. Compared with the other gold mining areas, the arsenic and the heavy metal sediments in the area of this study have higher pollution and ecological risks. The results of this study show that the local government must monitor ...

Table 6.5 shows the average grade of gold ores at Barrick operations. In 2016, the average grade of gold at major mines owned by Barrick was lower than 4 g/ton. There are many gold miners, including Barrick, that are processing gold ores having less than 1 g/ton of gold. One troy ounce of gold is equal to 31.10 g.

The mining and utilization of coal resources has not only promoted rapid economic development but also poses a potential threat to the ecological environment. The purpose of this study is to clarify the effects both of mining and land use types on the spatial distribution and particular sources of heavy metals in soil, using inverse distance …

Pseudomonas koreensis and Pantoea sp. were isolated from a gold mining soil and assessed for bioflocculant production.. 71% and 51% flocculation were obtained at optimum conditions (pH 7.5 and 30 °C) for Pantoea sp. and P. koreensis respectively.. Glucose gave the highest yield of 2.98 g L −1 and 3.26 g L −1 for Pantoea sp. and P. …

Heavy metals have harmful effects on human health, and exposure to these metals has been increased by industrial and anthropogenic activities and modern industrialization. ... Mercury compounds have many applications in mining for example extraction of gold and some industrial processes. In lamp producing factories, Hg is used …

In this study, chemical and mineralogical characterizations of gold-mine tailings in key mining areas in Mindanao, Philippines were investigated for possible utilization as geopolymeric source material. Results of X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) showed that the mine tailings samples have …

Uncontrolled artisanal and semi-mechanized mining activities generate growing pressure on water resources. This work investigated the water quality status and the metal contamination of the Lom River water in the vicinity of gold mining area of Bekao, Adamawa region of Cameroon using water quality index (WQI) and five pollutions …

Article. Open access. Published: 24 November 2021. Related health risk assessment of exposure to arsenic and some heavy metals in gold mines in Banmauk …

Heavy metals seep into rocks, accumulating in raw materials, and releasing pollutants into the environment. 3 All of this happens naturally, either as a result of rainfall, melting snow, or groundwater. 9 Many ores, mining precious metals, such as gold (Au), copper (Cu), 10 arsenic (As), mercury (Hg), cyanide, and uranium (U), contain high ...

[14] Chen Y. 2017 Review on Remediation and Safety Utilization of Heavy Metal Pollution of Farmland Soil in China J. Modern Agricultural Science & Technology. Google Scholar [15] Hu M, Wu J Q, Peng P Q et al. 2014 Assessment model of heavy metal pollution for arable soils and a case study in a mining area J. Acta scientiae circumstantiae 34 423-430

Exposure to heavy metals in mining activities is a health issue among miners. This study was carried out at three small-scale gold mining sites situated in Banmauk Township, Myanmar and aims to ...

Phytoremediation is one of the important methods for restoring heavy-metal contaminated soils. Using high-biomass economic plants to restore heavy-metal contaminated soils can have both ecological and economic benefits, with great application prospects. Based on the analysis of current situation and …

Review of heavy metal pollution by mining . Qin Yi 1,*, and Huang Cheng 2. 1 National Research Center for Geoanalysis, ... Heavy metals are mainly carried in sediment of water body, their contents ...

Timely heavy metal treatment and landscape restoration of extracted gold mines and environmentally friendly approaches such as bio-mining of unexplored gold mines where adequate protection is ...

Key words: gold mining activity; soil pollution; heavy metal; potential ecological risk 1 Introduction It is well known that, the soil, over a gold mining region, is always polluted by heavy metals, which are released from gold mining activities. Because these metals are toxic to living organisms, and even are several pollutants where …

This review focuses on the effects of heavy metal wastes generated from gold mining activities on the environment and the various mechanisms used by bacteria to counteract the effect of these heavy metals in their immediate environment. …

Recovery of the resources is considered to be a significant thing in the perspective of saving the cost economically and also for sustainable future utilization efficiently. Metals are extracted by mining processes in mines located on all over the world to consummate the needs put forth by the developing society.

Chen et al. investigated the concentration, distribution, sources, and influencing factors of arsenic and heavy metals in sediments from a gold mine area in …

Recovery of the resources is considered to be a significant thing in the perspective of saving the cost economically and also for sustainable future utilization efficiently. Metals are extracted by mining processes in mines located on all over the world to consummate the needs put forth by the developing society. But mining process was …

This work examined heavy metal pollution from a large-scale cyanidation gold mining operation, which is distinguished from artisanal and small-scale amalgamation gold mining, in Jilin Province, China. A total of 20 samples including one background sample were collected from the surface of the mining area and the tailings pond in June 2013.

DOI: 10.1016/J.ECOENV.2005.12.013 Corpus ID: 32557480; Effect of heavy metals on substrate utilization pattern, biomass, and activity of microbial communities in a reclaimed mining wasteland of red soil area.

Acheampong MA, Me ulepas RJW, Lens PN L (2010) Removal of heavy metals and cyanide from gold mine wastewater. J Chem Te chnol Biotechnol 85:590–613. https://doi.or g/10.1002/jctb.2358

Understanding the characteristic heavy metals and their migration-transformation behavior in mining areas is essential for the prevention and control of mining pollution. This study selected a gold mine in the Anqing-Guichi ore-cluster region in the Middle-Lower Yangtze metallogenic belt as the research area, the concentrations, …

PM 2.5 is derived from common sources of atmospheric pollution, such as automotive vehicles, mining operations, biomass burning, and industrial emissions (Nor et al., 2021).PM is harmful to health because it contains chemical compounds, especially PM 2.5, with a high range and strong absorption capacity (Ding et al., 2021).Additionally, PM …

S 24106. of copper (1170 mg/L). In addition there were apprecia-. bly high residual concentrations of manganese, aluminium, zinc, iron, nickel, cadmium, lead, and cobalt. Heavy metal. pollution ...