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Mining and the environment : from ore to metal /
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| Natura: | Printed Book |
| Lingua: | English |
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Boca Raton :
CRC Press,
c2009.
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| Accesso online: | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0826/2008037125.html |
Sommario:
- Minerals, wealth and progress
- Environmental impact assessment
- Involving the public
- The anatomy of a mine
- Mining methods very widely
- Converting minerals to metals
- Our environment
- The baseline
- Identifying and evaluating impacts
- Emphasizing environmental management and monitoring
- Metals, their biological functions and harmful impacts
- Was the environmental assessment adequate?
- The range of environmental concerns
- Land Acquisition and resettlement
- Community development
- Indigenous peoples issues
- Acid rock drainage
- Tailings disposal
- Approaches to waste rock disposal
- Erosion
- Mine closure
- Looking ahead.