This book deals with reclamation of abandoned mines and carbon capture neutralization. It discusses various mining technologies particularly in the treatment of chemicals in waste water and bacterial issues especially in acid mines drainage and reclamation of abandoned mines.
The focus being on gold mines, the book looks at treatments from a biotechnological approach. It also discusses mining technologies in carbon capture. It deals with policy development for carbon sequestration with Mexico as a case study. Topic on energy generation processes is dealt in a chapter and carbon mineralization and energy transition in another, creating a holistic approach in understanding the complex problems.
Table of Contents:
Electrocoagulation Treatment for Cyanide Removal in Waste Water Generated in the Cyanidation Process of Gold Beneficiation.- Photocatalytic Treatment of Wastewater from Cyanidation Process of a Gold Mining Area of Southern of Bolivar, Colombia.- Tourist Exploitation of the Mining Landscape as a New Economic Activity.- Bacterial Population Associated with Acid Mine Drainage and their Potential to Remediate Metals and Reclamation of Abandoned Mines.- Mining Impact of Bacterial Communities in Coastal Areas.- Gold Mine Tailings Treatments: Biotechnological Approaches.- Biochar Application for Mine Land Rehabilitation: Immobilization of Toxins, Soil Quality Improvement, and Carbon Sequestration.- Mining Technologies in Carbon Capture.- Comparative Appraisal of Carbon Stock in the Northern Coal Field Region of India.- Policy Development for Carbon Sequestration. Study Case: Mining in Mexico.- Energy Generation Processes Using CO2 .- Carbon Mineralization and Energy Transition: In-Situ and Ex-Situ Methods.- Geological Settings Evaluation and Geochemical Characterization of Magnesite Mines, Salem, Tamil Nadu, Southern India: Implications of CO2 Sequestration through Mineral Trapping.- The Current Methods and Practices of CO2 Capture.- CO2 Neutralization and Usage.- Opportunities and Challenges for Mining Sector in the Light of Mission Net-zero Society by 2050 Under COP26.- Carbon Geological Sequestration.- Performance of Constructed Wetlands to Improve Gold Mining Wastewater: a Pilot Study.- Mining Environmental Liabilities in Northwestern Colombia: Impacts and Management Needs.- Legal and Institutional Mechanism in Assessing EIA of Mining in India.- EIA of Mining in southern India.- The Production of Silver Jewelry in Taxco Guerrero Versus the Objectives of Sustainable Development.- Decarbonization Policies in México.- Decarbonization in the Maritime Sector and its Path to Sustainability.
About the Author :
Dr. José Marrugo-Negrete is Director & Senior Professor in Instituto Regional del Agua (IRAGUA) and Applied Chemical and Environmental Water Research Group, as well as Regional Director of SUE Caribbean master degree program in Environmental Sciences of Universidad de Córdoba, Colombia. He is Senior Researcher recognized by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Colombia. His areas of interest include the dynamics of heavy metals in the environment, impact on human health and environmental remediation.
Dr. M.P. Jonathan is Professor in Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo (CIIEMAD), Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN) in Mexico City and is a member of National Researchers Scheme--Level 3. His research includes Environmental Geochemistry focussing on metal cycling in water, sediment, air in continental/coastal environments and paleotsunami studies. Studies on mega and microplastic in beaches, coralline regions, commercial fishes, crocodiles, sea lions have been initiated. He is serving in the Editorial Board of Environmental Pollution (Elsevier Publs., ), Environmental Monitoring & Assessment Journals (Springer-Verlag) and has published over 150 research articles.
Dr. AL. Ramanathan is Professor in School of Environmental Sciences (SES) at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. He was in top 2% in the field of Environmental Sciences in the world list from 2019. He has published over 250 research papers and his research includes river sciences, groundwater hydrology, mangrove ecosystem biogeochemistry, and Arctic, Antarctic and Himalayan research. He has been awarded the INSA teachers, Young Scientist Award--DST, Government of India; Young Scientist Award Lineaus-Palme Fellow, FORMAS Fellow--Sweden; SIDA Fellow--Sweden; CIFIPRA Fellow--France.
Dr. S. Chidambaram is Senior Research Scientist at Water Research Centre, Institute for Scientific Research, Kuwait. He is gold medalist in undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. He served as Professor & Head from 2015-17 with 19 years of research experience and graduated 18 postgraduate, 18 doctorate students. He published around 250 research articles and 10 books. He served as guest editor for VSI in different journals and as Associate Editor in Kuwait Journal of Science. Computer programs WATCLAST and CHIDAM were developed for Hydrogeochemical studies. He has undertaken training in IAEA programs and as expert for various missions.
Dr. R. Nagarajan is Professor in Department of Applied Geology, Dean R&D and Director of Curtin Malaysia Research Institute. His research interests and capabilities include applications of geochemistry to various evolution of sedimentary systems, petroleum geology, environmental geosciences and biogeochemistry. He has published over 100 indexed publications (Journal papers, conference proceedings and book chapters). His current research focusses on geochemistry of Oligocene to Neogene sedimentary/metasedimentary rocks and recent sediments of Borneo. He has more than 10 years leadership experience in the above administrative positions with Curtin University.
Dr. Pankaj Kumar is currently working as Research Manager in the field of water resources and climate change adaptation at Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan. In addition, he is also working as Head of IPBES-TSU on Scenarios and Models. He has work experience with different global assessments like IPCC AR5, AR6; IPBES NEXUS assessment, GEO7 etc., as Chapter Scientist and lead authors, respectively.
