Resource recovery as a sustainable perspective for the remediation of mining wastes: rehabilitation of the CMC mining waste site in Northern Cyprus

Sözen, Seval; Orhon, Derin; Dinçer, Hasan; Atesok, G.; Baştürkçü, H.; Yalcin, T.; Öznesil, H.; Karaca, Cengiz; Allı, Buşra; Dulkadiroğlu, Hakan; Yağcı, N.

doi:10.1007/s10064-017-1037-0

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“…Based on the generally available data, the assessment of TSFs can be viewed as brownfield exploration [47]. Environmental and/or social aspects can also influence tailings valorisation [54]. The state of target minerals can alter in relatively short time spans due to their exposition to biological, chemical and physical processes of the Earth's surface [15].…”

Section: Justification For the Assessment Of Tailings As Anthropogenic Raw Materialsmentioning

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How to Identify Potentials and Barriers of Raw Materials Recovery from Tailings? Part I: A UNFC-Compliant Screening Approach for Site Selection

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Heuss‐Aßbichler

2021

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Mapping the raw material (RM) potential of anthropogenic RMs, such as tailings, requires a comprehensive assessment and classification. However, a simple procedure to quickly screen for potentially viable RMs recovery projects similar to reconnaissance exploration of natural mineral RMs is missing. In this article, a quick and efficient approach to systematically screen tailings storage facilities (TSFs) is presented to evaluate if a particular TSF meets the criteria to be assessed in a more advanced study including costly on-site exploration. Based on aspects related to a TSF’s contents, physical structure, surroundings, potential environmental and social impacts, and potentially affected stakeholders, it guides its user in compiling the information at local scale in a structured manner compliant with the United Nations Framework Classification for Resources (UNFC). The test application to the TSF Bollrich (Germany), situated in a complex environment close to various stakeholders, demonstrates that a quick and remote assessment with publicly accessible information is possible. Since an assessment of tailings under conventional classification codes from the primary mining industry neglects relevant aspects, it is concluded that tailings should be considered as anthropogenic RMs. The developed screening approach can help to create a TSF inventory which captures project potentials and barriers comprehensively.

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Section: Justification For the Assessment Of Tailings As Anthropogenic Raw Materialsmentioning

confidence: 99%

How to Identify Potentials and Barriers of Raw Materials Recovery from Tailings? Part I: A UNFC-Compliant Screening Approach for Site Selection

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Heuss‐Aßbichler

2021

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“…The consequences of waste disposal are considered as one of the significant sources of environmental pollution as many of these pollutants are toxic and can cause significant damage to the environment. Further, the harmful impact of some pollutants (e.g., copper, mercury) take a longer period of time to become visible, often after the mining sites are abandoned following the conclusion of the mining operations ( Sözen et al, 2017). Hence, in this project, we prepared a questionnaire that sets out a hypothetical case study portraying waste disposal practice, initiatives and subsequent disclosures of a large company in the context of the mining industry.…”

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Environmental Initiatives and Disclosures by Large companies: The Views of Investors

Siddique¹,

Sciulli²

2020

AABFJ

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The purpose of this paper is to explore investors' perspectives on the environmental initiatives and disclosure strategies of large firms. Obtaining such viewpoints is important because, as signaling theory suggests that investors' perspectives are one of the contributory factors in determining organisational strategies for environmental initiatives and disclosures. We used a web-based questionnaire of a group of investors. We put forward a hypothetical case study that raised financial versus environmental consequences of safe waste disposal initiatives for a large company. The findings revealed that a majority (90.21 per cent) of the investors preferred a pro-environmental strategy for waste disposal when a large firm in an environmentally sensitive sector is responsible for polluting the regional water resource. Our findings concluded that investors expect a high quality of environmental disclosures from larger firms as opposed to smaller firms. This study contributes to the literature by presenting investors perspective on firms' environmental decisions using a hypothetical case study.

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“…Desulphurization succeeded in reducing the sulfur content to less than 0.4 wt% in the tailings, a non-acid generating material. The rehabilitation strategy of resource recovery (the tailings would be processed for copper recovery) followed by lime stabilization was investigated to further prevent the chemical mobility of heavy metals before final landfilling (Sozen et al, 2017). Sulfide-lean benign tailings obtained from a two-stage flotation process were evaluated as materials to reduce the permeability of acid-generating coal interburden or waste rock (Kotsiopoulos and Harrison, 2017 The effects of coal ash on acid coal mine waste and AMD were investigated in the field by adding coal ash to acid waste and supplying essential nutrients to plants .…”

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Characterization and Treatment of Mine Drainage

Wei¹,

Zhang²,

Han³

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Water Environment Research

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The recent research and development on mine drainage published in 2017 was summarized in this review. In particular, this review was focused on three main aspects: 1) mine drainage and its environmental impact, 2) prediction and prevention, and 3) treatment technologies. The first section covers physiochemical characterization, microbiological characterization, and environmental impacts. The second section includes mine drainage prediction and prevention. The final section focuses physiochemical treatment, biological treatment, passive treatment, and beneficial uses of mine drainage and treatment wastes.

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Resource recovery as a sustainable perspective for the remediation of mining wastes: rehabilitation of the CMC mining waste site in Northern Cyprus

Cited by 23 publications

References 8 publications

How to Identify Potentials and Barriers of Raw Materials Recovery from Tailings? Part I: A UNFC-Compliant Screening Approach for Site Selection

How to Identify Potentials and Barriers of Raw Materials Recovery from Tailings? Part I: A UNFC-Compliant Screening Approach for Site Selection

Environmental Initiatives and Disclosures by Large companies: The Views of Investors

Characterization and Treatment of Mine Drainage

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