Mine Wastes

1. Front Matter

   Pages N2-XIV

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2. Introduction to Mine Wastes

   • Bernd Lottermoser

   Pages 1-30

3. Sulfidic Mine Wastes

   • Bernd Lottermoser

   Pages 31-82

4. Mine Water

   • Bernd Lottermoser

   Pages 83-141

5. Tailings

   • Bernd Lottermoser

   Pages 143-169

6. Cyanidation Wastes of Gold-Silver Ores

   • Bernd Lottermoser

   Pages 171-187

7. Radioactive Wastes of Uranium Ores

   • Bernd Lottermoser

   Pages 189-230

8. Wastes of Phosphate and Potash Ores

   • Bernd Lottermoser

   Pages 231-250

9. Back Matter

   Pages 251-279

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This book is not designed to be an exhaustive work on mine wastes. It aims to serve undergraduate students who wish to gain an overview and an understanding of wastes produced in the mineral industry. An introductory textbook addressing the science of such wastes is not available to students despite the importance of the mineral industry as a resource, wealth and job provider. Also, the growing importance of the topics "mine wastes", "mine site pollution" and "mine site rehabilitation" in universities, research or­ ganizations and industry requires a textbook suitable for undergraduate students. Un­ til recently, undergraduate earth science courses tended to follow rather dassicallines, focused on the teaching of palaeontology, crystallography, mineralogy, petrology, stratigraphy, sedimentology, structural geology, and ore deposit geology. However, to­ day and in the future, earth science teachers and students also need to be familiar with other subject areas. In particular, earth science curriculums need to address land and water degradation as well as rehabilitation issues. These topics are becoming more important to society, and an increasing number of earth science students are pursuing career paths in this sector. Mine site rehabilitation and mine waste science are exam­ ples of newly emerging disciplines. This book has arisen out of teaching mine waste science to undergraduate and gradu­ ate science students and the frustration at having no appropriate text which documents the scientific fundamentals of such wastes.

• Applied earth science
• Fundament
• Mineral Industry
• crystallography
• environmental management
• mine site pollution
• mineral resources
• mineralogy
• pollution
• waste management
• terrestrial pollution
• hydrogeology

From the reviews of the second edition:

"This thorough and authoritative reference work on the characterization, prediction, monitoring, treatment, and disposal of mine wastes relates so well to the important environmental impact of energy and mineral resource development … . This well-illustrated second edition (1st ed., 2003) with … abundant references, lists of resource material, lists of appropriate Web sites, and a thorough index, would be an appropriate library holding for science and technology, economics, and environmental matters. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers; upper-division undergraduates through faculty." (W. C. Peters, CHOICE, Vol. 45 (5), January, 2008)

• School of Earth Sciences, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia

  Bernd Lottermoser

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