Performance of natural and residual materials for mine water treatment and mine sites rehabilitation

Carmen Mihaela Neculita, Isabelle Demers, Flavia Lega Braghiroli

UQAT - University of Quebec in Abitibi-Temiscamingue, Canada

Distribution of flow in sedimentation and AMD treatment ponds

Tiff Hilton¹, Jeff Skousen²

1: WOPEC, Lewisburg, WV, United States of America; 2: West Virginia University, United States of America

Integrated treatment of acid mine drainage and rare earth critical materials production

Paul F. Ziemkiewicz, Jeff G. Skousen

West Virginia University, United States of America

Nature-based solutions for mine water challenges: Linking mining reclamation, environmental remediation, ecological restoration, and sustainable resource extraction

Robert W. Nairn, Dayton M Dorman, Justine I. McCann, Leif H. Olson, Hailey N. Seago, Cheyenne M. Morgan, Nicholas L. Shepherd, Robert C. Knox

University of Oklahoma, United States of America

A phased approach to mine dewatering – updated from IMWA 1993

Kym Lesley Morton

KLM Consulting Services, South Africa

Tracer dilution profiles for mine dewatering: approach and case study

Michael Verreault

Hydro-Ressources Inc, United States of America

🎓 Advancing sustainable mine water management through understanding stratification in flooded underground mines

Elke Mugova¹, Christian Wolkersdorfer²

1: TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany; 2: Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa

Various rainfall forecasting methods for estimation of pit lake flooding duration in Indonesia

Ginting Jalu Kusuma, Abie Badhurahman, Sendy Dwiki, Salmawati Salmawati, Rudy Sayoga Gautama, IK Dwika Paramananda

Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia, Indonesia

A watershed-based NPDES approach to AMD treatment in Muddy Creek, Cheat River, West Virginia, USA

Gregory Willard Phillips

West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, United States of America

The engineering of truly passive mine water treatment systems using recycled concrete aggregate

Adrian Brown

Adrian Brown Consultants, Inc., United States of America

Beyond reclamation and remediation, next steps in a recovered watershed

Amy Mackey, Nora Sullivan, Natalie A Kruse Daniels, Jennifer Bowman

Ohio University, United States of America

Sandy Creek restoration – the tale of two acid mine drainage treatment systems

Benjamin Ross Fancher

West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, United States of America

Biomagnification of potentially toxic elements from Tahmoor Colliery, Bargo NSW, from water and sediment into the surrounding biota and fur of the iconic Australian platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)

Katherine G Warwick, Michelle Ryan, Ian A Wright

Western Sydney University, Australia

Hydrogeochemical investigations in the vicinity of the former Havelock asbestos mine near Bulembu, eSwatini (formerly Swaziland)

Christian Wolkersdorfer¹, Kagiso Samuel More¹, Elke Mugova², Nokuthula Nchabeleng³, Anna Johanna Sotiralis⁴

1: Tshwane University of Technology (TUT), South Africa; 2: TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany; 3: University of Pretoria, Südafrika; 4: Artist, Südafrika

🎓 Intergrated groundwater management model for underground coal gasification plants

Lehlohonolo Mokhahlane

Wits University, South Africa

Upper He Creek water balance hydraulic and hydrogeologic solutions in east central Tennessee

Terry W. Schmidt

Earthres Group, Inc., United States of America

🎓 A workflow to evaluate hydraulic barriers during mine water rebound: A holistic approach

Till Genth, Lisa Rose, Henning Jasnowski-Peters, Sebastian Westermann, Christian Melchers

Technische Hochschule Georg Agricola Bochum, Germany

The Barnes & Tucker #20 Mine Drainage Treatment Facility: optimization case study in consideration of variable flow and water chemistry

Bradley Shultz¹, Richard Beam¹, Dean Baker², Roger Rummel², Stephen Fisanick III²

1: Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, United States of America; 2: Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Bureau of Abandoned Mine Reclamation

Pell road doser upgrade project

Michael Stephen Kearns

Tetra Tech, Inc., United States of America

Harvesting the Energy of Mine Water

Terry Edward Ackman

MT Water Management, Inc., United States of America

Stream restoration solutions for challenging environments

Mary Beth Berkes

GAI Consultants, Inc., United States of America

The Transport of toxic elements from the Marie-Louise landfill site and nearby gold mine dumps to waterbodies

Alseno Mosai¹, Heidi Richards², Hlanganani Tutu²

1: Department of Chemistry, University of Pretoria; 2: School of Chemistry, University of the Witwatersrand

Floodplain reconnection stream restoration in longwall mined watershed increases water and nutrient retention

Natalie A Kruse Daniels, Nora Sullivan, Jen Bowman, Tatiana Burkett, Annika Gurrola, Red Pazol, Kelly Love, Nichole Mazzone, Morgan Vis, Kelly Johnson

Ohio University, United States of America

Influences on Mine Water Quality that are not related to Acid Mine Drainage

Robel Gebrekristos, Graham Trusler

Digby WElls Environmental, South Africa

Tracking AMD trace metals in an anthracite passive treatment system in the Shamokin Creek watershed

Molly M. McGuire¹, Hannah M. Schultheis¹, Ellen K. Herman²

1: Department of Chemistry, Bucknell University, United States of America; 2: Department of Geology, Bucknell University, United States of America

Case Study – The Gladden acid mine drainage (AMD) treatment facility and Fishing Run stream sealing project

Katie Wood

Tetra Tech, United States of America

Using iron oxidation and decarbonation to enhance inorganic carbon removal in coal mine drainage

Brent Means, Richard L. Beam

OSMRE, United States of America

Restoring the north branch Blacklick Creek with a centralized mine drainage treatment facility

Heather Trexler

Tetra Tech, United States of America

Teaching hydrogeology in a mined site: a case study on West Run, Morgantown, WV

Lisa Lohr

West Virginia University, United States of America

The Banning/West Newton Coal Logistics coal refuse pile reclamation project, Rostraver Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania

Eric Cavazza

Tetra Tech, Inc., United States of America

Ongoing case study, Berry Branch selenium pilot treatment system using sulfur modified iron, former Hobet Surface Mine, Lincoln County, WV

R. B {Barry} Doss

ERP Environmental Fund Receivership Estate

Recovery of copper as “clean” nanoparticles of CuS from acid rock drainage and mine process water

Gonzalo Recio¹, Aileen Segura¹, Alex Schwarz², Ivan Nancucheo¹

1: Universidad San Sebastián, Chile; 2: Universidad de Concepción, Chile

Hydrochar for metal removal from acid mine drainage

Natalie A Kruse Daniels, Benjamin Quardey, Sana Jamshidifard, Aliching Marma, Blake Madden

Ohio University, United States of America

🎓 Double burden of mine water resources and the prospect of corporate sustainability as adaptation strategy: perspectives from Ghana, West Africa

Salamatu Joana Tannor

University of Bonn, Center for Development Research (ZEF), Germany

Hydrogeological inputs to stability analysis of tailings storage facilities

Altus Huisamen¹, John Edward Glendinning²

1: Jones & Wagener, South Africa; 2: Jones & Wagener, South Africa

Saturated-unsaturated seepage characteristics and stability analysis of tailings dam under different rainfall pattern

Jun Cai, Haibo Huang, Riqiang Wen, Shangsong Han, Lijuan Lu, Wenkai Lei

Hezhou University, China, People's Republic of

Hyperspectral UAS-sensing for tailing ponds monitoring: Towards responsible resource repurposing

Hernan Flores¹, Bastian Reker¹, Marcin Pawlik^1,2, Benjamin Haske^1,2, Tobias Rudolph¹

1: Research Center of Post-Mining (FZN), Technische Hochschule Georg Agricola (THGA); 2: Faculty of Geoscience, Geoengineering and Mining, Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg (TUBAF)

Pilot plant testing to determine the process effects of treating net alkaline mine water using the high density sludge process.

Michael Alan Cox¹, Catherine Dale¹, Christopher Satterley¹, Richard Coulton², Richard D Coulton², Richard Morgan²

1: The Coal Authority, United Kingdom; 2: Materials Recovery Systems Limited, United Kingdom

Using state point analysis and settling flux theory to design and operate mine water treatment clarifiers

Harley Schreiber, Jaron Stanley, Mike Chambers

WesTech Engineering, United States of America

Mine Water Pinch - increasing reuse/recycle efficiency while optimising water treatment on a mine sites

Priyal Dama-Fakir¹, Trevor Coleman¹, Grace Yungwirth², Peter Wille³

1: WSP, South Africa; 2: WSP, UK; 3: iX engineers, South Africa

🎓 Potential of continuous electrocoagulation for the treatment of coal mine water containing colloidal clays

Faiz Hasan¹, Muhammad Sonny Abfertiawan², Mindriany Syafila², Yoseph Palinggi³, Kris Pranoto³

1: Environmental Engineering Master Program, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Bandung Institute of Technology; 2: Water and Wastewater Research Group, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Bandung Institute of Technology; 3: Environmental Department, PT. Kaltim Prima Coal, Indonesia

Datashed: an online tool for managing AMD treatment systems and restoration of impacted watersheds

Cliff Denholm¹, Natalie Lamagna¹, Shaun Busler²

1: Stream Restoration Incorporated, Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, United States of America; 2: BioMost, Inc, Mars, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Passive Treatment using Drainable Limestone Beds: Lessons from 13 Years of Design and Maintenance

Neil Wolfe, Robert Hedin, Benjamin Hedin, Olivia Weaver

Hedin Environmental

Expanding possibilities for the co-treatment of mine drainage with municipal wastewater

William Strosnider¹, Benjamin Roman², Charles Spellman Jr.³, Joseph Goodwill⁴, Travis Tasker⁵

1: University of South Carolina, United States of America; 2: U.S. Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement; 3: Narraganset Bay Commission; 4: University of Rhode Island; 5: Saint Francis University

Acid mine drainage active treatment solutions options and evaluation

Robert Loken

Envirogen Technologies, Inc, United States of America

Sorption of metals from low-iron acid mine drainage using agricultural waste materials

Edward Abbiw, Natalie A Kruse Daniels

Ohio University, United States of America

Implementing water conservation and water demand management in South Africa’s mining industry

Givarn Singh¹, Nivi Juggath², William Pulles², Stephinah Mudau³

1: WSP UK; 2: WSP South Africa; 3: Minerals Council South Africa

Forecasting opportunities for co-management of Cu-Ni tailings with byproducts of iron ore mining

Joel Bandstra, Tamara Diedrich

MineraLogic, United States of America

Reclamation of two kyanite mine tailings ponds with different surface topographies

Gwendelyn Geidel

University of SC, United States of America

Assessment of AMD Potential and Prediction of a long-term Sulfate Plume of a Tailing Storage Facility Decades after its Decommissioning

Thomas R. Rüde¹, Julia Becker¹, Dirk Sahle², Franz-Josef Chmielarczyk³, Michael Heitfeld⁴, Peter Rosner⁴, Ernst-Werner Hoffmann², Thomas Demmel¹

1: RWTH Aachen University, Institute of Hydrogeology, Germany; 2: AAV – Association for Land Recycling and Remediation of Contaminated Sites, Germany; 3: Bezirksregierung Arnsberg Dezernat 63 - Abschlussbetriebsplanverfahren, Germany; 4: IHS – Ingenieurbüro Heitfeld-Schetelig GmbH, Germany

Active treatment of high strength acid mine drainage at a clay mine and coal refuse sites

Jonathan Dietz

Iron Oxide Technologies, United States of America

Underestimation of alkaline dosage and precipitate amount during water treatment: Role of inorganic carbon and use of PHREEQ-N-AMDTreat

Duk-Min Kim¹, Hye-Lim Kwon¹, Mi-Sun Park²

1: Sangji University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea); 2: Korea Mine Rehabilitation and Mineral Resources Corporation (KOMIR), Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

Treatment of coal mine leachate for neutralization and metal removal

Mokgadi Rapeta, Johannes Maree, Thabo Nkambule

University of South Africa, South Africa

Development of a single stage High Density Sludge (HDS) process for the reopening of South Crofty Tin Mine, Cornwall, UK

Richard Morgan¹, Richard Coulton¹, Steve Kingstone², Naomi Watson²

1: Materials Recovery Systems, United Kingdom; 2: Cornish Metals, United Kingdom

Successful acid mine drainage abatement – a case study

Joseph Edward Mills

Skelly and Loy, a Terracon Company, United States of America

Carbonation of mine water to increase calcite dissolution

Robert S Hedin, Benjamin C Hedin

Hedin Environmental, United States of America

Passive treatment of Mn: results from an experimental pilot system

Benjamin Hedin, Neil Wolfe, Robert Hedin

Hedin Environmental, United States of America

Comparison of Midwestern U.S. conventional and hybrid vertical flow ponds to previous performance data

Paul T Behum Jr., Andrew Ripley, Daniel Wedemeyer

US Dept. Interior, United States of America

Tailings dam breach assessment – a review

Hossein Kheirkhah Gildeh¹, Uthra Sreekumar², Abdolmajid Mohammadian², Ioan Nistor², Colin Rennie²

1: Barr Engineering Co.; 2: University of Ottawa

Geochemical controls on mobilization of metals from tailings and implications for cover amendments

Linda Figueroa¹, Sarah Doyle²

1: Colorado School of Mines; 2: Itasca Denver Inc.

The potential of reprocessing Au and by-products from a tailing dam in the Iron Quadrangle – The case of the Cuiaba Dam, Sabará, Minas Gerais

Mariana Lemos^1,3, Teresa Valente¹, Amélia Marinho-Reis¹, Amália Sequeira Braga¹, Rita Fonseca², José da Mata Filho³, Marcus Magalhães³

1: University of Minho, Institute of Earth Sciences, Portugal; 2: University of Évora, Institute of Earth Sciences; 3: Anglogold Ashanti, Mining & Technical, COO International

Short water recirculation during the flotation of a UG2 Cu-Ni-PGM ore: Implications on tailings dewatering and quality of the recovered water

Malibongwe Shadrach Manono

University of Cape Town, South Africa

Removal of selenium by biological reduction and surface complexation: removal efficiencies and speciation results

Myriam De Ladurantaye-Noel, Marc Laliberté

Veolia Water Technologies Canada, Canada

Electrolytic manganese removal from acid rock drainage

Sarah Doyle¹, Linda Figueroa²

1: Itasca Denver Inc.; 2: Colorado School of Mines

Economical and Environmentally Friendly Adsorption of Arsenic from Mine Drainage: Comparison between CMDS-Bead and GFH

Ki-Rim Lee, Duk-Min Kim, Hye-Lim Kwon, Nam-Kyu Kim, Young-Min Kim, Dae-Gyu Im, Oh-Hun Kwon

Sangji university, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

Innovative data collection and management strategies for improved water treatment efficiency

Tom Meuzelaar¹, Shannon D. Zahuranec¹, Alice Alex², James P. Jonas¹

1: Life Cycle Geo, United States of America; 2: Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission

Feasibility of the scale-up of a semi-passive biological Sulfate Reduction Process Treating High Sulfate Mine-Influenced Water

Kerri du Preez, Mothusi Marumo

Mintek, South Africa

A toolbox for characterizing organic media in passive biotreatment cells

Logan Schultz. Ph.D.¹, Brian Park¹, Lauren Stanford¹, Kevin Pfeifer¹, Irene Montero. Ph.D.², Terry Moore. Ph.D.², Alex Wing⁴, Sandy Riese. Ph.D.³

1: Alloy, Inc.; 2: Remediation Management Services Company; 3: EnSci, Inc.; 4: Astalagus Environmental

Lambert Run: a passive treatment approach to watershed remediation

Jason Fillhart¹, John Brady Gutta²

1: WV Water Research Institute, United States of America; 2: WVU Institute for Sustainability and Energy Research, United States of America

Development of an un-powered remote monitoring system of mine waste water

Tetsuo Yasutaka, Hiromitsu Furukawa, Kenro Kuroki, Tsukasa Fujita

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan

Applicability of machine learning in agile decision making in open pit dewatering: A case study at Antamina mine (Peru)

Eduardo Ruiz¹, Aitor Iraola¹, Lizardo Huamani¹, Maria Pool¹, Alejandro Sanchez², Marco Irribarren², Bertha Llanos¹, Milton Cairo¹, Albert Nardi¹, Ester Vilanova¹, Luis Lozada²

1: Amphos 21 Consulting Peru, Peru; 2: Antamina Mine

Cooperative mine land reclamation operations & comprehensive managed watershed planning

Michael Haney¹, Branden Diehl², Todd Coleman³

1: Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, United States of America; 2: Earth Wise Consulting, LLC; 3: Minetech Engineers, Inc.

Flow and load accretion study improved understanding of hyporheic exchange plus contaminant plume sources and transport at an operating mine

Isaac Guld, Kate Robey, Sharon Blackmore, Andrea Chong

BGC Engineering Inc., Canada

Metal loads accounting at a legacy mine site: The Tar Creek Superfund Site, Oklahoma, USA

Justine Inez McCann, Robert W. Nairn

Center for Restoration of Ecosystems and Watersheds, School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, University of Oklahoma, United States of America

Monday creek restoration, snow fork dosers

Gregory Paul Hynes

Tetra Tech Inc., United States of America

🎓 Application of statistical models to estimate total dissolved solids in acid mine drainage

Ana Raquel Barroso¹, Teresa Maria Valente¹, Amélia Paula Reis^1,2, Isabel Margarida Antunes¹

1: ICT – Institute of Earth Sciences, pole of University of Minho, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal; 2: GEOBIOTEC, Geosciences department, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal

Characterizing cobalt sequestration in manganese-rich coal mine drainage treatment solids

Camille Rose Schaffer^1,2, Mengling Y. Stuckman², Christina L. Lopano², Rosemary C. Capo¹, Brian W. Stewart¹, Gita Bhandari²

1: University of Pittsburgh, United States of America; 2: National Energy Technology Laboratory, United States of America

Column experiments on the settling characteristics of suspended solids in mine water treatment facilities

Seong-Sook Park¹, Ga-Hyeon Lee¹, Duk-Min Kim², Mi-Sun Park³, Sun-Joon Kim¹

1: Hanyang University, Republic of Korea; 2: Sangji University, Republic of Korea; 3: Korea Mine Rehabilitation and Mineral Resources Corporation, Republic of Korea

Post-mining water-sediment interaction on U-mine area – a contribution to water management

Margarida Antunes¹, Bilel Abdelkarim^1,2, Teresa Valente¹, Antonio Tavares³

1: ICT – Institute of Earth Sciences, pole of University of Minho, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal; 2: Higher Institute of Water Sciences and Techniques, University of Gabes, University Campus, 6033 Gabes Applied -Hydrosciences Laboratory; 3: University of Coimbra, Portugal

Effect of different sources and local conditions in the post-mining contamination by acid mine drainage: three case studies in Iberian Peninsula (SW Europe)

Raquel Fernandes¹, Ana Barroso¹, Patricia Gomes¹, Joana Araujo², Raphael de Vicq¹, Isabel Margarida Antunes¹, Rita Fonseca², Teresa Maria Valente¹

1: ICT - Institute of Earth Sciences, pole of University of Minho, Portugal; 2: ICT - Institute of Earth Sciences, pole of University of Évora, Portugal

Conservation and promotion of the Coal Mining Heritage as Europe’s Cultural legacy: Ruhr Area Examples

Hernan Flores, Tansel Dogan, Julia Haske

Research Center of Post-Mining (FZN), Technische Hochschule Georg Agricola (THGA), Herner Straße 45, 44787 Bochum, Germany

Analysis of a base-load-capable heat supply of quarters considering aquifers in disused mines as heat storages for locally specific renewable (waste) heat potentials

Patrick Heinrich¹, Thomas Wenzel¹, Mareike Bleidießel¹, Robert Manig¹, Lukas Oppelt², Ebel Tom², Wunderlich Timm², Thomas Grab²

1: DBI Gas- und Umwelttechnik GmbH, Germany; 2: TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany

Determination of cyanide and potentially toxic elements in gold tailings at Barberton, Mpumalanga, South Africa

Deogratius Maiga¹, Sazini Makamu³, Mokgehle Letsoalo¹, Khuthadzo Mudzanani¹, Terence Phadi¹, Shonisani Limani¹, Titus Msagati²

1: Council for Mineral Technology (MINTEK) Private Bag X3015, Randburg 2125, Johannesburg, South Africa.; 2: Institute for Nanotechnology and Water Sustainability, College of Science Engineering and Technology, Science Campus, University of South Africa, Roodepoort, 1710 Johannesburg, South Africa; 3: Maelgwyn South Africa, Building A - Stand 221A, Paddock Lane, Boundary Park, North Riding, Randburg 2188, Johannesburg, South Africa

Considering residual flocculants and coagulants in recycled mine water on the surface chemistry of talc: Implications on flotation performance

Malibongwe Shadrach Manono, Lisa Louise October, Resoketswe Martha Manenzhe, Kirsten Claire Corin

University of Cape Town, South Africa

In-situ testing and data applications for upstream-constructed coal refuse impoundments

Abeera Batool, Blaise Genes

GAI Consultants, Inc., United States of America

🎓 A review of the reducing and alkalinity-producing passive treatment system for remediating acid mine drainage

Mafeto Malatji¹, Elvis Fosso-Kankeu²

1: Council for geoscience; 2: University of Johannesburg

Assessing the cost and applicability of passive treatment and risk-based point-of-use management for 26 legacy mine drainages

Kohei Doyama¹, Yuichi Iwasaki¹, Takaya Hamai², Tetsuo Yasutaka¹, Shingo Tomiyama³

1: National Institute of Advanced Industrial and Science Technology; 2: Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation; 3: Division of Sustainable Resources Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University

Abandoned Mine Pools: a Threat to the Environment or a Water Resource for Beneficial Uses

Wanfang Zhou, Jeff Zoeckler, Scott Bailey, Marcus Kim

Hana Engineers and Consultants, LLC., United States of America

Sulfide-rich waste classification using a fast and cost-effective reactivity index

Patricia Gomes, Mayara Cordeiro, Teresa Valente

University of Minho, Institute of Earth Sciences, pole of the University of Minho, Portugal

GIS-based development of energy networks using mine water geothermal energy for cross-sectoral heating and cooling supply of municipal quarters

Thomas Wenzel¹, Patrick Heinrich¹, Robert Manig¹, Thomas Grab², Lukas Oppelt², Tom Ebel², Timm Wunderlich²

1: DBI Gas- und Umwelttechnik GmbH, Germany; 2: TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany

WINZER: Multi-scale modelling concept for numerical modelling of seasonal thermal energy storage in groundwater-filled underground coal mines

Torsten Seidel¹, Timo König¹, Florian Hahn², Stefan Klein², Mathias Nehler²

1: delta h, Witten, Germany; 2: Fraunhofer IEG, Bochum, NRW, Germany

Geothermal multiple use of mine water from the Wolf – San Fernando – Friedrich Wilhelm composite mine, Rhenish Massiv, Germany

Peter Quensel, Georg Wieber

Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany

Navigating difficult site constraints to facilitate ecological recovery of an impaired watershed

Timothy A Denicola

Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc., United States of America

Sulfate removal from mine drainage at low temperature: effects of three reactive porous media on microbial sulfate reduction

Laura Nina Bettoni, Roger Herbert

Uppsala University, Sweden

Reducing water quality impacts from abandoned mines in Saxony – Challenges and benefits for passive treatment options

Eberhard Janneck¹, Mirko Martin¹, Christine Stevens², Axel Hiller³

1: G.E.O.S. Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH, Germany; 2: Sächsisches Landesamt für Umwelt, Landwirtschaft und Geologie, Germany; 3: Wismut GmbH, Germany

Evaluation of geochemical reaction rates from different wet-dry cycle intervals in laboratory kinetic test

Ginting Jalu Kusuma, Abie Badhurahman, Sendy Dwiki, Salmawati Salmawati, Rudy Sayoga Gautama, Gelar Wisnugraha

Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia, Indonesia

Coal mine drainage contaminant trend prediction in an Appalachian basin, USA

Camille Rose Schaffer¹, Charles A. Cravotta III², Rosemary C. Capo¹, Brian W. Stewart¹, Benjamin C. Hedin^1,3, Dorothy J. Vesper⁴

1: University of Pittsburgh, United States of America; 2: United States Geological Survey; 3: Hedin Environmental; 4: West Virginia University, USA

Geochemical modeling to understand and mitigate aquatic contamination by abandoned mine drainage

Charles A Cravotta III

U.S. Geological Survey, Pennsylvania Water Science Center, New Cumberland, PA, USA

Application of supported liquid membranes for extraction of rare earth elements from acidic coal mine drainage

Helen Hsu-Kim¹, Andrew Middleton¹, Benjamin C. Hedin²

1: Duke University, United States of America; 2: Hedin Environmental, United States of America

Generating Rare Earth Element and Critical Mineral hydraulic pre-concentrate from acid mine drainage at remote sites: a case study at Fola Job 5, Clay County, WV

Iuri Santos¹, Nathan Depriest², David Hoffman², Caitlin Glascock², Rachel Spirnak², Jason Fillhart², Michael King³, John Quaranta³, Paul Ziemkiewicz²

1: Slippery Rock University, United States of America; 2: West Virginia Water Research Institute; 3: West Virginia University

Identification of rare earth element occurrences in mine waste throughout Montana

Jackson Tyler Quarles, Matthew Joseph Vitale, Michael William Calhoun

Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, United States of America

Mine thermal energy storage (MTES) systems in abandoned collieries within the Ruhr area

Florian Hahn¹, Stefan Klein¹, Kevin Mannke¹, René Verhoeven¹, Jonas Güldenhaupt¹, Torsten Seidel², Timo König²

1: Fraunhofer IEG; 2: delta h

GIS based analysis of heat demand and subsurface potential of abandoned mining infrastructure in the Ruhr region, Germany

Kevin Mannke, Florian Hahn, René Verhoeven, Stefan Klein

Fraunhofer IEG, Germany

🎓 Treating Fe-rich acid mine drainage with Tasmanian plants as a metal removal mechanism

Tamara Lee Herzog¹, Anna Lintern¹, Adam Kessler², Brandon Winfrey¹

1: Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Australia; 2: School of Earth, Atmosphere, and Environment, Monash University, Australia

🎓 Effect of source water chemical composition on the mineralogical and chemical properties of resulting iron oxide precipitates in coal and hard-rock mining influenced waters

Dayton M Dorman, Robert W Nairn

University of Oklahoma, United States of America

🎓 Characterization and modeling of Acid Mine Drainage in a highly acidic Stream (Trimpancho mining complex, SW of Spain)

Ana Raquel Barroso¹, Teresa Maria Valente¹, Isabel Margarida Antunes¹, Amélia Paula Reis^1,2, Maria Isabel Neves^3,4

1: ICT – Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Minho, Portugal; 2: GEOBIOTEC, Geosciences Department, University of Aveiro, Portugal; 3: CQUM, Centre of Chemistry, University of Minho, Portugal; 4: CEB - Centre of Biological Engineering, University of Minho, Portugal

Mining-Influenced Water Treatment Technology Demonstration Program lessons learned from two EPA Superfund sites

Lucila Dunnington, Michele Mahoney, Kimberly Prestbo, Barbara Butler

Environmental Protection Agency, United States of America

Lab-based assessment of critical metal adsorption by biotic and abiotic hydrous manganese oxides

Tashane Jessica Boothe¹, Rosemary Clare Capo¹, Brian W. Stewart¹, Ben Hedin², Travis Olds³, Carla Rosenfeld³

1: University of Pittsburgh; 2: Hedin Environmental; 3: Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Laboratory and field observations inform geochemical models of treatment strategies to recover rare-earth elements from acid mine drainage

Charles A Cravotta III¹, Travis L. Tasker², Benjamin C. Hedin³

1: U.S. Geological Survey, Pennsylvania Water Science Center, New Cumberland, PA, USA; 2: Saint Francis University, Loretto, PA, USA; 3: Hedin Environmental, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Self-organizing wetland bioreactors (SOWBs) application to mining reclamation: direct and indirect bioremediation as a design tool for mine influenced water (MIW) benefaction

Colin A Lennox

EcoIslands LLC, United States of America

Batch operating limestone treatment systems (BOLTS): a novel approach to treating mine drainage at lower cost

Travis Lindsay Tasker¹, Ben Roman¹, James Eckenrode¹, Nicole Himes¹, Henry Warner¹, Buck Neely², Cliff Denholm³, William Strosnider⁴, Julie LaBar⁵, Tim Danehy²

1: 1Saint Francis University, Loretto, PA, USA; 2: BioMost, Inc. Mars, PA, USA; 3: Stream Restoration Inc, Slippery Rock, PA, USA; 4: University of South Carolina, Baruch Marine Field Laboratory, Georgetown, SC, USA,; 5: Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA

Crossville coal passive treatment system – the redesign of a non-functioning iron and manganese treatment system

Wesley Con Smith, Adam Ramsey, Rick Mann

OSMRE, United States of America

Development of a prediction method for contaminated neutral drainage: Case of Lac Tio, QC

Vincent Marmier¹, Benoît Plante¹, Isabelle Demers¹, Mostafa Benzaazoua^2,1, Mathieu Fillion³

1: Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue; 2: Mohammed VI Polytechnic University; 3: Rio Tinto Fer et Titane

Nitrate removal from waste rock drainage with denitrifying bioreactors at the Kiruna iron ore mine

Roger B. Herbert¹, Tomas Salmí², Mattias Ylipää²

1: Uppsala University, Sweden; 2: Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara Aktiebolag (LKAB), Sweden

Watergenics AISRAS: addressing the problem of sudden changes in ion concentrations with real-time spectroscopy

Bruno Grafe¹, Henning Jasnowski-Peters², Liviu Mantescu¹, Sebastian Stolzenberg¹

1: Watergenics GmbH, Germany; 2: Technische Hochschule Georg Agricola, Germany

Determination of groundwater level using advanced machine learning methods

Amirhossein Najafabadipour

Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Iran.

The release of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) and CO₂ from coal mine drainages

Dorothy J Vesper¹, Charles A Cravotta III², Kyle Fredrick³, Ellen K Herman⁴, Lili Lei⁵, Jill L Riddell⁶, Mathew L Bell¹, Lauren J Rockwell¹, Camille R Schaffer⁷

1: West Virginia University, USA; 2: USGS; 3: Penn West University, USA; 4: Bucknell University, USA; 5: Sweet Brier College, USA; 6: Chatham University, USA; 7: University of Pittsburgh, USA

Improving Fe oxidizing/removal process by limestone addition to rice husk bed on large scale passive treatment test for AMD in Japan

Masataka Kondo, Yusei Masaki, Kana Hagihara, Koki Iguchi, Takaya Hamai, Yuki Semoto, Taro Kamiya, Masao Okumura, Naoki Sato

Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security, Japan

Diurnal cycles of dissolved inorganic carbon and dissolved metals at Lambert Run, Harrison County, WV

Jill L Riddell¹, Dorothy J Vesper²

1: Chatham University, United States of America; 2: West Virginia University, United States of America

Challenges of defining what ‘success’ looks like for closure of pit lakes as aquatic ecosystems

Mark Lund, Rachele Bernasconi

Mine, Water and Environment Research Centre, Edith Cowan University, Australia

Water Management and Treatment in the Closure Phase: Case Studies and the Associated Challenges

Andre Abel van Coller, Vicki Ann Shaw, Graham Errol Trusler

Digby Wells Environmental

Understanding a passive treatment mechanism of manganese and zinc at a legacy mine in northern Japan using geochemical modelling

Sereyroith Tum¹, Taiki Katayama¹, Naoyuki Miyata², Miho Watanabe², Yohey Hashimoto³, Tetsuo Yasutaka¹

1: Institute for Geo-Resources and Environment, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology; 2: Department of Biological Environment, Akita Prefectural University; 3: Department of Bioapplications and Systems Engineering (BASE), Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

Banning No. 4 Mine, a tale of Title V facility retrofit project development.

Sami Pretzel, Dingfang Liu, Brian Osborn

Kleinfelder, Inc., United States of America

Tioga river watershed restoration, design considerations and updates

Sami Pretzel, Tom Clark

Kleinfelder, Inc., United States of America

Low-concentration sulfate removal from wastewater with barite precipitation technology

Meijun Cai, Sara Post, Shashi Rao, Chan Lan Chun, Lucinda Johnson, George Hudak

University of Minnesota Duluth, United States of America

Leaching dynamics of Pb, Zn, and F: Long-term leaching of waste rock from mine site of Ivittuut, South Greenland

Ninni Jeremiassen^1,6, Yu Jia¹, Violeta Hansen², Henrik Friis³, Morten Birch Larsen⁴, Maia Olsen⁵, Thomas Ulrich⁶

1: Greenland Institute for Natural Resources, Greenland; 2: University of Gothenburg, Sweden; 3: University of Oslo, Norway; 4: Rambøll, Denmark; 5: Government of Greenland, Greenland; 6: University of Aarhus, Denmark

Regional spatial distribution of elements in the Vaal primary catchment using stream sediments geochemistry: Implication on anthropogenic and geogenic source

Khashane Robert Tshishonga Netshitungulwana¹, Bisrat Yibas², Dirk Grobbelaar¹, Rudzani Lusunzi¹, Christoph Gauert³

1: Council for Geoscience,South Africa; 2: University of the Free State, South Africa; 3: Geological Survey of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Estimating carbon dioxide flux from coal mining discharge portals in the bituminous coal field region of Pennsylvania

Lauren J Rockwell¹, Dorothy J Vesper¹, Kyle C Fredrick², Lisa H Lohr¹

1: West Virginia University, United States of America; 2: Pennsylvania Western University, California, PA, United States of America

Ensuring the water quality of post-mining lakes in Central Germany by implementing two different aftercare strategies to meet alkalinity demand

Benno Janisch

LMBV mbH, Germany

UAVs for analyzing legacy issues and development opportunities on former mine lands

Mike Strager, Paul Kinder, Lucas Kinder, Brady Gutta

West Virginia University, United States of America

Sediments in affected river systems – lessons learned from WISMUT remediation

Annia Inge Greif, Silvia Jahn

Wismut GmbH, Germany

Abandoned coal mine mitigation in artesian conditions

Joshua Townsend Zimmermann, Dave Grant Hibbard

Brierley Associates, United States of America

Watershed scale reclamation and treatment planning with changing reclamation funding sources

Natalie A Kruse Daniels, Jennifer R Bowman, R Guy Riefler

Ohio University, United States of America

Hydrogeochemical Monitoring of Mine Waters for a controlled and sustainable Mine Water Rebound – from a univariate to a multivariate Tracer Monitoring Concept

Henning Jasnowski-Peters, Sebastian Westermann, Christian Melchers

Research Center of Post Mining, Technische Hochschule Georg Agricola University, Bochum, Germany