Effects of acid mine drainage on groundwater quality: a case study from an open-pit copper mine in eastern Turkey

2013 ◽  
Vol 72 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 485-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Irfan Yesilnacar ◽  
Zekiye Kadiragagil
Keyword(s):  
Acid Mine Drainage ◽  
Groundwater Quality ◽  
Mine Drainage ◽  
Open Pit ◽  
Copper Mine ◽  
Acid Mine ◽  
Eastern Turkey

Diversity of Prokaryotic Communities Indigenous to Acid Mine Drainage and Related Rocks from Baiyin Open-Pit Copper Mine Stope, China

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (7) ◽  
pp. 580-600 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wasim Sajjad ◽  
Guodong Zheng ◽  
Gaosen Zhang ◽  
Xiangxian Ma ◽  
Wang Xu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Acid Mine Drainage ◽  
Mine Drainage ◽  
Open Pit ◽  
Copper Mine ◽  
Acid Mine

scholarly journals Managing and Reforesting Degraded Post-Mining Landscape in Indonesia: A Review

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 658
Author(s):  
Pratiwi ◽  
Budi H. Narendra ◽  
Chairil A. Siregar ◽  
Maman Turjaman ◽  
Asep Hidayat ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Acid Mine Drainage ◽  
Success Rate ◽  
Coal Mining ◽  
Best Management Practices ◽  
Mine Drainage ◽  
Forest Area ◽  
Tree Planting ◽  
Open Pit ◽  
Open Pit Mining ◽  
Acid Mine

Tropical forests are among the most diverse ecosystems in the world, completed by huge biodiversity. An expansion in natural resource extraction through open-pit mining activities leads to increasing land and tropical forest degradation. Proper science-based practices are needed as an effort to reclaim their function. This paper summarizes the existing practice of coal mining, covering the regulatory aspects and their reclamation obligations, the practices of coal mining from various sites with different land characteristics, and the reclamation efforts of the post-mining landscapes in Indonesia. The regulations issued accommodate the difference between mining land inside the forest area and outside the forest area, especially in the aspect of the permit authority and in evaluating the success rate of reclamation. In coal-mining practices, this paper describes starting from land clearing activities and followed by storing soil layers and overburden materials. In this step, proper handling of potentially acid-forming materials is crucial to prevent acid mine drainage. At the reclamation stage, this paper sequentially presents research results and the field applications in rearranging the overburden and soil materials, controlling acid mine drainage and erosion, and managing the drainage system, settling ponds, and pit lakes. Many efforts to reclaim post-coal-mining lands and their success rate have been reported and highlighted. Several success stories describe that post-coal-mining lands can be returned to forests that provide ecosystem services and goods. A set of science-based best management practices for post-coal-mine reforestation is needed to develop to promote the success of forest reclamation and restoration in post-coal-mining lands through the planting of high-value hardwood trees, increasing trees’ survival rates and growth, and accelerating the establishment of forest habitat through the application of proper tree planting technique. The monitoring and evaluation aspect is also crucial, as corrective action may be taken considering the different success rates for different site characteristics.

Prevention of Acid Mine Drainage from Open Pit Highwalls

2013 ◽  
pp. 1861-1871
Author(s):  
Roger Wilmoth ◽  
A. Lynn McCloskey ◽  
Diane M. Jordan
Keyword(s):  
Acid Mine Drainage ◽  
Mine Drainage ◽  
Open Pit ◽  
Acid Mine
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