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The New Uranium Mining Boom

Challenge and Lessons learned

  • Broder Merkel
  • Mandy Schipek
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Part of the Springer Geology book series (SPRINGERGEOL)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Plenary

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
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    2. Marie Curie and the Discovery of Radium
      Fernando P. Carvalho
      Pages 3-13

  3. Renaissance of Uranium Mining

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 15-15
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    2. License Procedure for Uranium Recovery from Talvivaara Deposit, Eastern Finland
      Ari Luukkonen, Esko Ruokola
      Pages 17-22
    3. New Uranium ISR Satellites at Beverley North, South Australia
      Horst Märten, Richard Phillips, Peter Woods
      Pages 23-30
    4. Waste Water Treatment of CO2 + O2 in-situ Leaching Uranium
      Lechang Xu, Naizhong Liu, Guofu Zhang
      Pages 31-37
    5. Radiation Protection and Environmental Safety Surveillance in Uranium Mining and Ore Processing in India
      A.H. Khan, V.D. Puranik
      Pages 39-49
    6. Estimates of Effective Doses Among Czech Uranium Miners
      Ladislav Tomasek, Jiri Hulka, Petr Rulik, Helena Mala, Irena Malatova, Vera Beckova
      Pages 51-55
    7. Evaluation of Transboundary Impact of Toxic Metals of Uranium Mine Mailoo-Suu (Kyrgyzstan)
      V.B. Aparin, J.P. Voronova, S.K. Smirnova
      Pages 57-64
    8. Uranium in Water and Sediments of the Mulde River
      Stefan Bister, Torben Lüllau, Florian Koenn, Maruta Bunka, Jonny Birkhan, Beate Riebe et al.
      Pages 65-72
    9. Assessment of Background Uranium Concentration in Groundwater Around a Proposed Mining Area
      K. Brindha, L. Elango, R.N. Nair
      Pages 73-80
    10. Geochemistry of Radionuclides in Groundwaters at the Former Uranium and Radium Mining Region of Sabugal, Portugal
      Fernando P. Carvalho, João M. Oliveira, W. Eberhard Falck
      Pages 81-90
    11. Simulation of Radionuclide Transport and Fate in Surface Waters in the Vicinity of a Past Uranium Processing Plant
      Maria de Lurdes Dinis, António Fiúza
      Pages 91-100
    12. Neutralisation and Trace Element Removal from Beverley in-situ Recovery Uranium Mine Barren Lixiviant via Hydrotalcite Formation
      Grant Douglas, Laura Wendling, Kayley Usher, Peter Woods
      Pages 101-109
    13. Concentration of U and Th in the Bloedkoppie Granite, Namibia
      Fred Kamona
      Pages 111-118
    14. Concentration Dynamics and Speciation of Uranium in a Boreal Forest Creek – Six Years of Weekly Observations
      Stefan Karlsson, Bert Allard
      Pages 119-126
    15. Uranium Pollution of Grand Water in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan
      Yoshiko Kawabata, Masaaki Yamada, Onwona-Agyman Siaw, Aparin Vyacheslav, Berdiyar Jollibekov, Masahiro Nagai et al.
      Pages 127-134
    16. Environmental Impact of the Kadji-Sai Uranium Tailing Site, Kyrgyzstan
      Zheenbek Kulenbekov, Broder J. Merkel
      Pages 135-142
    17. Assessment of Distribution Coefficients (Кd) of Radionuclides of the Uranium-Thorium Chain in the Uranium Manufacturing Tailing Dumps
      Valentyn Protsak, Valery Kasparov, Igor Maloshtan, Sviatoslav Levchuk, Vasyl Yoschenko, Irina Kalyabina et al.
      Pages 143-150
    18. How Much Uranium Can Be Left at Former U Mining Sites? The Need for a Complex Assessment Framework
      P. Schmidt, E. Kreyßig, W. Löbner
      Pages 151-160
    19. Health Hazards and Environmental Issues at the Uranium Mine Near Tatanagar, India
      S.K. Sharma
      Pages 161-165
    20. Cadmium and Uranium in German and Brazilian Phosphorous Fertilizers
      Geerd A. Smidt, Franziska C. Landes, Leandro Machado de Carvalho, Andrea Koschinsky, Ewald Schnug
      Pages 167-175
    21. Radiological and Hydrochemical Investigation of Underground Water of Issyk-Kul Region
      Azamat Tynybekov
      Pages 177-184
    22. Interaction of Chlorella vulgaris and Schizophyllum commune with U(VI)
      M. Vogel, A. Günther, M. Gube, J. Raff, E. Kothe, G. Bernhard
      Pages 185-192
    23. Sustainability: the Balanced Approach to Modern Uranium Mining
      Peter Waggitt
      Pages 193-199
    24. Uranium Mining Life-Cycle Energy Cost vs. Uranium Resources
      W. Eberhard Falck
      Pages 201-209
    25. Making Uranium-Mining More Sustainable – The FP7 Project EO-MINERS
      W. Eberhard Falck, Henk Coetzee
      Pages 211-218
    26. Groundwater Monitoring Data and Screening Radionuclide Transport Modeling Analyses for the Uranium Mill Tailings at the Pridneprovsky Chemical Plant Site (Dneprodzerzhinsk, Ukraine)
      Oleksandr Skalskji, Dmitri Bugai, Oleg Voitsekhovitch, Viktor Ryazantsev, Rodolfo Avila
      Pages 219-228
    27. Assessment of Failure Modes of the Ak-Tyuz Tailing Ponds in Kyrgyzstan in Preparation of Remediation Measures
      Isakbek Torgoev, Alex T. Jakubick
      Pages 229-238
    28. The IAEA ENVIRONET Network Supporting the Remediation of Uranium Mining and Milling Sites
      Horst Monken Fernandes, Philip Michael Carson
      Pages 239-246
    29. Environmental Management Systems in Uranium Exploration at AREVA Resources Canada Inc. (ARC)
      Peter Wollenberg
      Pages 247-252

  4. Phosphate Mining and Uranium Recovery

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 253-253
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    2. Developing an “Alternative” Mining Method
      Franz-Werner Gerressen, Heiko Kopfmüller
      Pages 255-261
    3. Assessment of Radiological Impact on the Environment During Recovery of Uranium from Phosphate Rocks and Phosphoric Acid
      A.H. Khan
      Pages 263-269
    4. Uranium Pollution in an Estuary Affected by Two Different Contamination Sources
      Guillermo Manjón, María Villa, Rafael García-Tenorio, Juan Mantero, Santiago Hurtado, Mouloud Lehritani
      Pages 271-278
    5. Distribution of Uranium Related to Particle Size of Phosphogypsum from Phosphoric Acid Production (Huelva, SW Spain)
      Marusia Rentería-Villalobos, Ignacio Vioque, Juan Mantero, Guillermo Manjón
      Pages 279-286
    6. Lithofacies Study of the Natural Phosphates: Quantification, Genetic Involvement and Distribution of Natural Radionuclides
      Said Fakhi, Rabie Outayad, Elmehdi Fait, Mustapha Mouflih, Marusia Rentería, Ignacio Vioque et al.
      Pages 287-296

  5. Cleaning up Technologies for Water and Soil

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 297-297
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    2. Conception for Diversion of Runoff Implementing the Trünzig Uranium Tailings Pond into the Regional Catchment Area
      Ulf Barnekow, Marcel Roscher, Matthias Bauroth, Gunter Merkel, Manuela Voßberg
      Pages 299-306
    3. Hydrogeological Evaluation of Flooded Uranium Mine Cavities in Hungary
      Gábor Földing, Gabriella Szegvári, Mihály Csővári
      Pages 307-314
    4. Natural Radioactive Elements in the Region of Closed Uranium Mines on Stara Planina, Eastern Serbia
      Jovan Kovačević, Zoran Nikić, Petar Papić
      Pages 315-324
    5. Solubility Controls of Arsenic, Nickel, and Iron in Uranium Mine Tailings
      Joseph Essilfie-Dughan, M. Jim Hendry, Jeff Warner, Tom Kotzer
      Pages 325-334
    6. Study of Radionuclide Transport by Underground Water at the Semipalatinsk Test Site
      Ella Gorbunova, Sergey Subbotin
      Pages 335-342
    7. Rehabilitation of Uranium Mining Waste and Restoration of the Plohnbach Valley (Germany): Design Principles, Ecological Requirements and Construction in a Fauna-Flora-Habitat Area
      N. Gottschalk, P. Schneider, R. Löser, J. Schreyer, S. Anders, B. Tunger
      Pages 343-349
    8. Generation and Prevention of Acid Drainage from Mining Wastes in a Uranium Deposit
      Marina Nicolova, Irena Spasova, Plamen Georgiev, Stoyan Groudev
      Pages 351-359
    9. Portable XRF to Guide a Groundwater Source Removal Action at the Cañon City, CO, USA Uranium Mill
      G. Greg Lord, Kenneth E. Karp, John Elmer, John Hamrick
      Pages 361-370
    10. Characterization of Thorium Binding by Sequential Extractions in Uranium Tailings of Schneckenstein, Germany
      Taoufik Naamoun
      Pages 371-376
    11. Safe Handling of Low pH Mill Tailings Pore Fluids Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project
      Donald Metzler, Joseph Ritchey
      Pages 377-382
    12. Development and Migration of a Critical Habitat and Its Affect on the Colorado River Protection Strategy at the Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project Site
      Joseph Ritchey, Donald Metzler
      Pages 383-388

About this book

Introduction

The book presents the results from the Uranium Mining and Hydrogeology Conference (UMH VI) held in September 2011, in Freiberg, Germany. The following subjects are dealt with in depth: uranium mining, phosphate mining and uranium recovery. Cleaning up technologies for water and soil are also discussed at length. Analystics and sensors for uranium and radon and modelling round up this comprehensive volume.

Keywords

Geochemistry Hydrogeology Mining Rehabilitation Uranium

Editors and affiliations

  • Broder Merkel
    • 1
  • Mandy Schipek
    • 1
  1. 1.Institute for GeologyTU Bergakademie FreibergFreibergGermany

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