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Biologically mediated processes have been used for at least 2000 years to treat domestic sewage and agricultural effluent (Wang 1987). These natural water cleansing processes for both organics and inorganics take place not only in sewage and agricultural waste treatment systems, but also in natural systems such as wetlands, rivers, and lakes (Hamilton 1978). Effluents associated with mine waste areas are distinctly different from effluents produced by domestic and agricultural activities. Organic substances required to drive microbial activity are not present. Mine waste effluents are also characterized by low phosphorus levels, elevated concentrations of nitrogen compounds (remnants of blasting), high metal concentrations, and often also extremes in pH. Natural treatment processes based on microbial mineralization of sewage or agricultural waste are therefore not directly applicable to mine effluents.
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Kalin, M. (1998). Biological Polishing of Zinc in a Mine Waste Management Area. In: Geller, W., Klapper, H., Salomons, W. (eds) Acidic Mining Lakes. Environmental Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71954-7_17
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