Mine Water

One Mining and the Water Environment.- 1.1 Mining, society and the environment.- 1.2 Scope of this book.- 1.3 Overview of mining and mine wastes.- 1.4 Impacts of mining and mine waters on the water environment and infrastructure.- 1.5 Summary.- Two Mine Water Chemistry.- 2.1 Sources of mine water contaminants and their natural attenuation.- 2.2 Acidity, alkalinity and pH.- 2.3 Assessing contamination loads.- 2.4 The geochemistry of metal ions in aquatic environments.- Three Mine Water Hydrology.- 3.1 Hydrology and mining.- 3.2 Issues and processes in mine water hydrology.- 3.3 Mass continuity and hydrological fluxes.- 3.4 Hydrometry in mining environments.- 3.5 Physical impacts of mineral extraction on natural hydrological systems.- 3.6 Water inflows to active workings.- 3.7 Dewatering techniques and their design.- 3.8 Environmental impacts of dewatering and their mitigation.- 3.9 Hydrological behaviour of waste rock piles, backfill and tailings dams.- 3.10 Mine abandonment and reboundprocesses.- 3.11 Abandoned mine hydrology after rebound is complete.- 3.12 Hydrological interventions in mine water remediation.- Four Active Treatment of Polluted Mine Waters.- 4.1 What is active treatment?.- 4.2 Oxidation, dosing with alkali and sedimentation (ODAS).- 4.3 Sulfidization and biodesalination.- 4.4 Sorption and ion exchange.- Five Passive Treatment of Polluted Mine Waters.- 5.1 What is passive treatment?.- 5.2 A brief history of passive mine water treatment.- 5.3 Chemical and microbial basis for passive treatment.- 5.4 Passive treatment technologies.- 5.5 Passive treatment process selection and staging.- Appendix I Glossary of mining and related terms relevant to mine water science and engineering.- References.