Study of the flooding of coal mines in Asturias. Possibilities for the use of mining reservoirs

Almudena Ordóñez, Rodrigo Álvarez, Carmen García, Silverio García

University of Oviedo, Spain

🎓 Ion exchange to recover Rare Earth Elements from acid mine drainage

Elaine Felipe¹, Luciano Bernado José², Clauson Souza¹, João Gabriel Niquini Cordeiro¹, Ana Claudia Ladeira¹

¹Centro de Desenvolvimento Da Tecnologia Nuclear; ²Universidade Pungue

Experimental Study on the Damage Mechanism of Coal Pillars in Abandoned Mines under Immersion Conditions

Zhimin Xu¹, Huiqing Yuan¹, Weining Lu², Yuhang Han¹, Shijie Xiong¹

¹China University of Mining and Technology, China; ²China Railway No.6 Engineering Group Co., Ltd., China

🎓 Key drivers of metal removal in constructed wetlands treating acid mine drainage revealed by machine learning

Jingkang Zhang, Xingjie Wang, Liyuan Ma, Jianwei Zhou

China University of Geosciences

From deep mineral exploration to mine closure: Why groundwater matters

Magdalena Worsa-Kozak

Politechnika Wrocławska, Poland

🎓 An approach to green corrosion inhibitors in acid mine drainage (AMD)

Iván Jares Salguero², Efrén García Ordiales¹, Luis González Genicio², Guillermo Laine Cuervo¹, Juan José del Campo²

¹Universidad Oviedo, Spain; ²Instituto STEM Minestech, Spain

Experimental approach to designing a flushing system for SAPS pond

Dong-Kil Lee, Youngwook Cheong, Sangwoo Ji, Giljae Yim, Yong-chan Cho

KIGAM, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

MCA – Water Quality Risk Assessment Tool

Paul Joël Havemann Lourens, Petrus Daniel Vermeulen

Institute for Groundwater Studies, University of the Free State, South Africa

🎓 Tracing current pollutants discharged into the environment from mining sources and the determination of interactions between surface and/or groundwater with pollutants. A case of Iron Duke Mine and surrounding active mines

Patricia Sekina Chagonda¹, Moses Souta², Alexander Mhizha², Shepherd N Misi²

¹University of Zimbabwe, Environmental Management Agency, Zimbabwe; ²University of Zimbabwe

🎓 H₂-based membrane biofilm reactors for sulfate removal from mining process water

Jose Ignacio Suarez, Alex Schwarz

Universidad de Concepcion, Chile

Manganese(II) removal bioreactor system of mine drainage is dominated by chemolithotrophic manganese oxidizing microorganisms

Taiki Katayama¹, Miho Watanabe², Naoyuki Miyata², Yuto Komura¹, Sereyroith Tum¹, Tetsuo Yasutaka¹

¹National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan; ²Akita Prefectural University, Japan

Investigating the Effects of Storm Events on the Temporal Dynamics of Acid Mine Drainage Loads in Receiving Streams of the Lusatian Lignite Mining District (Germany)

Erik Nixdorf^1,2, Maik Böhmeke¹, Marcus Fahle¹

¹Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Cottbus, Germany; ²Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

🎓 Improved Acidity Estimation by Integrating Comprehensive Dissolved Metal(oid)s Data: A Geochemical Modeling Case Study of Highly Mineralized Mine Waters

Ana Raquel Barroso¹, Charles A. Cravotta III², Patrícia Gomes¹, Isabel Margarida Horta Ribeiro¹, Amélia Paula Marinho Reis^1,3, Teresa Maria Valente¹

¹ICT – Institute of Earth Sciences, pole of University of Minho, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.; ²Cravotta Geochemical Consulting LLC, Bethel, USA, cravottageochemical@gmail.com, ORCID 0000-0003-3116-4684; ³GEOBIOTEC, Geosciences Department, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal

Sensible communication strategy in mine water related licensing processes

Thomas Manuel Walter

Ministerium für Umwelt, Klima, Mobilität, Agrar und Verbraucherschutz, Germany

Study of An Integrated Management Scheme for Acid Mine Drainage Generating Mine Tailings

Mariam El Adnani, Hassan Dahmouni

Resources Valorization, Environment and Sustainable Development Research Team (RVESD), Department of Mines, Mines School of Rabat, Ave Hadj Ahmed Cherkaoui, BP 753, Agdal, Rabat 10090, Morocco

🎓 Zinc Recovery from Abandoned Mine Drainage: Insights from the Freiberg Mining Region, Germany

Janith Tharanga Abeywickrama, Nils Hoth

Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany

Arsenate and chromate attenuation in acid mine drainage systems

Juan Antelo¹, Sarah Fiol¹, Ivan Carabante², Isabela Filardi³, Ana Barroso⁴, Teresa Valente⁴

¹Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain; ²Luleå University of Technology, Sweden; ³Federal University of Viçosa, Brasil; ⁴University of Minho, Portugal

Acidic Affected by Acid Mine Drainage – A Case of Extreme Contamination

Patrícia Gomes, Teresa Valente

ICT, Institute of Earth Sciences, Pole of the University of Minho, Earth Sciences Department, Campus de Gualtar, 4710 Braga, Portugal

🎓 Influence of reactive media on microbial sulfate reduction at two distinct temperatures

Laura Nina Bettoni, Roger Herbert

Uppsala University, Sweden

Iber as a flood nowcasting and forecasting software suite for mine managers

Marcos Sanz-Ramos, Ernest Bladé

Flumen Research Institute, Spain

🎓 Hydrogeological and hydrological modelling of the impact of water resources on mineral resource production

Mariam Taki, Nicolas Flipo, Damien Goetz

Centre Géosciences, MINES PARIS - PSL, France

Multi-variable Analysis for Fault Identification and Hydraulic Characterization

Manuel Gutierrez, Laura Tapias

Itasca, Chile

Characterization of core samples and mechanisms of zinc leaching in a waste rock dump of abandoned mines

Miu Nishikata¹, Yohey Hashimoto², Tomoko Oguri¹, Tetsuo Yasutaka¹

¹Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, Japan; ²Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan

🎓 Secondary Minerals from Evolved Mine Waters: A Detailed Survey in Almadén Historic Mercury Mine Gallery

Ana Raquel Barroso¹, José Ignacio Barquero^2,3, Efrén García‑Ordiales⁴, Judith L. Jaeger^2,3, Pablo Higueras^2,3, Teresa Maria Valente¹

¹ICT – Institute of Earth Sciences, Pole of University of Minho, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal; ²Instituto de Geología Aplicada, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Pl. Manuel Meca 1, 13400 Almadén, Ciudad Real, Spain; ³Escuela de Ingeniería Minera E Industrial de Almadén, 13400 Almadén, Ciudad Real, Spain; ⁴ISYMAResearch Group, Mining, Energy and Materials Engineering School, University of Oviedo, C/ Independencia 13, 33011 Oviedo, Spain

Electrochemical and biobased solutions in mine waste to facilitate the net zero-carbon transition

Denys Villa Gomez, Mansour Edraki, Yun Liu, Rosie Gillane, Luke Webster, Fernanda Soto

University of Queensland, Australia

Water Management in Iron Ore Mining: Regression Models for Optimizing Water Use in Mining Complexes

Renata Gaudereto Andries¹, Renato Silva Júnior², Guilherme Alves de Melo¹

¹Vale, Brazil; ²Vale Technological Institute (ITV), Brazil

An improved Acid Mine Drainage treatment aimed at decreasing lime cost

Xiaoyun Yi, Feng Jiang, Lijuan Zhang, Zhi Dang

South China University of Technology, China, People's Republic of

Competitive Adsorption of Toxic Metals Using Activated Carbon Derived from Sargassum for Polymetallic Acid Mine Drainage Treatment

Patricia I. Melendez-Torres¹, Máximo E. Reynoso-Ortega¹, Pamela R. Tejada-Tejada¹, Teresa Maria Valente², Ulises J. Jauregui-Haza¹

¹Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional, Dominican Republic; ²ICT, Institute of Earth Sciences, Pole of the University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710 Braga, Portugal

Groundwater Monitoring Technology in an Open-pit Coal Mine：Case Study from Eastern Inner Mongolia，China

Wenfeng Du, Suping Peng, Yinli Bi, Xiaoqin Cui

China University of Mining and Technology-Beijing

🎓 Phytoremediation of Mine Waters: comparing the efficiency of Alyssum, Pensylvania Mallow and Giant Miscantus in removing heavy metals

Martyna Marta Lalik

University of Silesia, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Będzińska 60 Sosnowiec, Poland

Removing toxic metals from acid mine drainage by in situ ε-MnO2 forming

Xiaoyun Yi, Yaozhong Wang, Lijuan Zhang, Zhi Dang

South China University of Technology, China, People's Republic of

Adapting Indigenous methods of water purification to restore access to clean drinking water in mining communities in Ghana

Godfred Williams-Nanyaa

Adom Mining Group, Ghana

Characterization of red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii) as a bioindicator of mercury and metals pollution

José Ignacio Barquero Peralbo¹, Pablo Higueras Higueras¹, José María Esbrí², Feliciano Mbomio¹, Efrén García-Ordiales³

¹Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha - Instituto de Geología Aplicada, Spain; ²Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Departamento de Mineralogía y Petrología, José Antonio Novais 12, 28040 Madrid, Spain; ³Centro Universitario para la Investigación y el Desarrollo del Agua (CUIDA); Edificio de Investigación del Campus de Mieres; University of Oviedo; C/Gonzalo Gutiérrez Quirós, s/n, 33600 Mieres, Spain.

Electricity Generation from Low-Enthalpy Mine Water Using Enhanced Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) Systems

Antonio Luis Marqués Sierra

Instituto Universitario de Ciencias y Tecnologías Espaciales de Asturias (ICTEA). Universidad de Oviedo, Spain

Geochemistry of rare earth elements (REE) in acid mine drainage from the former Canal Caveira mine (southwest Portugal)

Nuno Durães, Carla Patinha, Luís Portela, Eduardo Ferreira da Silva

GEOBIOTEC - Department of Geosciences, University of Aveiro, Portugal

🎓 Groundwater Contamination associated to Phosphate Mines: Challenges and Sustainable Remediation Strategies

BIlel Abdelkrim^1,2,3, Yahya Moumni⁴, Mohamed Haythem Msaddek⁵, Nabil Abaab², Belgacem Agoubi^2,3, Isabel Margarida Horta Ribeiro Antunes¹

¹minho university, Portugal; ²Institut Supérieur des Sciences et Techniques des Eaux de Gabès, Université de Gabès, Tunisia; ³LR: Applied Hydro-Sciences Laboratory Research Campus Universitaire, 6072 Zrig, Gabes, Tunisia.; ⁴Department of earth sciences, Faculty of Sciences of Bizerte, University of Carthage, 7120 Bizerte, Tunisia,; ⁵Département de Géologie, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Université de Tunis El Manar, Tunis, 2092, Tunisia

🎓 Innovative UAV-Based Multispectral Mapping of Contaminant Spread from Mine Tailings Spill

Ringo Maturana¹, Alvaro Antonio Navarrete-Calvo¹, Joaquín Quinteros², Sofía Fernández¹, Camilo Sánchez-Yáñez¹

¹Universidad Mayor, Chile; ²Geospectrom, Chile

Integrating remote sensing and analytical hierarchy process for soil erosion analysis in arid regions: Gabès, Southern Tunisia

Wassim Chwikhi¹, Mounir Atoui², Bilel Abdelkarim², Abdelhakim Bouajila¹, Salah Mahmoudi¹

¹Laboratory of Geosystems, Georesources and Geo-environments, Faculty of Sciences of Gabès, University of Gabès, Tunisia; ²University of Gabes, Tunisia Higher Institute of Water Sciences and Techniques, Laboratory of Applied Hydrosciences, LR23ES09, Campus Universitaire, 6072, Zrig, Gabes, Tunisia

Kinetic Column Evaluation of Potential Construction Options During Coal Mine Pit Restoration to Lessen Contaminant Mobility in Backfill Aquifers

Jeff Langman, Julianna Martin

University of Idaho, United States of America

Mine-stream sediments spatial distribution and mobility processes on U-Th enriched areas

Margarida Antunes¹, Paula Carvalho², Teresa Albuquerque³, Bilel Abdelkarim¹, António Santos⁴

¹ICT | University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710 - 057 Braga, Portugal; ²GeoBioTec-GeoBioSciences, GeoTechnologies and GeoEngineering Research Centre, Department of Geosciences, University of Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal; ³CERNAS/Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Av. Pedro ÁlvaresCabral, n° 12, 6000‑084 Castelo Branco, Portugal; ICT| Universidade de Évora, Portugal; ⁴University of Coimbra, Portugal

🎓 Utilizing Iron from AMD for Energy Efficient Wastewater Treatment and Nutrient Recovery

Katelyn Renee Pepe, Lian-Shin Lin

West Virginia University, United States of America

The mechanism of hydrochemical-microbial interaction in the formation and evolution of coal mine water quality

Li Zhang¹, Zhimin Xu¹, Yajun Sun¹, Yating Gao¹, Ge Chen¹, Lulu Zhu²

¹School of Resources and geosciences, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China; ²China Coal Aerial Survey and Remote Sensing Group Co., Ltd., Xi'an 710199, China

The “three-stages” and “three-zones” models of coal mine water quality formation and evolution

Yajun Sun¹, Zhimin Xu¹, Li Zhang¹, Ge Chen¹, Xianming Zhao²

¹China University of Mining and Technology, China; ²Nanjing Center, China Geological Survey, China

Sustainable Immobilization of As and Se using Magnesium Precipitate derived from Seawater Electro-Chlorination Facility

Han Gyeol Jeon, Davy Thoeun, Kyoung-Woong Kim

Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

Study on the influence mechanism of the “upper three zones” of coal seam roof on the overlying aquifer in the northwest coal mining area of China

Chao Xu¹, Tao Wu², Pingping Gong³

¹China University of Mining and Technology, Underground Space Technology Development Co., Ltd. of CNACG, China; ²Hydrogeological Engineering Geological Environmental Geological Exploration Institute of CNACG, China; ³Hydrogeological Bureau of CNACG, China

Spatio-temporal variations in hydrochemistry and water quality in old tungsten mining areas, central Portugal

Paula C.S. Carvalho¹, Maria Manuela V. G. Silva², Isabel Margarida H. R. Antunes³, António Santos⁴, Fernando T. Rocha⁵, Eduardo A. Ferreira da Silva⁶

¹Geobiosciences, Geotechnologies and Geoengineering Research Center (GeoBioTec), University of Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal, paulacscarvalho@ua.pt; ²CITEUC, University of Coimbra, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Department of Earth Sciences, 3030-790 Coimbra, Portugal; ³ICT | University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal; ⁴Geobiosciences, Geotechnologies and Geoengineering Research Center (GeoBioTec), University of Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal; ⁵Geobiosciences, Geotechnologies and Geoengineering Research Center (GeoBioTec), University of Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal; ⁶Geobiosciences, Geotechnologies and Geoengineering Research Center (GeoBioTec), University of Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal