U. Aswathanarayana

Mineral Resources Management and the Environment (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Through an exploration of the links between geologic setting, mining and process technologies, economics, environment and stakeholder communities, this text addresses ways in which the mineral industry can be made safe, efficient and ecologically sustainable, focusing in particular upon the following key themes: a review of the current status of the world mining industry, and the environmental challenges it faces. links between the mode of occurrence of a mineral and the ways of mining it the impact of mining on the environment in terms of industry and waste health consequences arising from the various hazards of mining the environmental impact of process technologies, and control technologies to make the mining industry ecologically sustainable methods of rehabilitation of mined land, and reuse of mine wastes and mine water socio-economic dimensions of the mining industry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135292058
• Artikelnr.: 55263771

Autorenporträt

U. Aswathanarayana

Inhaltsangabe

FOREWORD
PREFACE
COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
1. INTRODUCTION
2. MINING METHODS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
3. MODE OF OCCURRENCE OF MINERAL DEPOSITS
4. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF MINERAL INDUSTRIES - INDUSTRY-WISE
5. IMPACT OF MINING ON THE ENVIRONMENT - WASTE-WISE
6. MINING AND HEALTH HAZARDS
7. PROCESS TECHNOLOGIES AND THE ENVIRONMENT
8. CONTROL TECHNOLOGIES FOR MINIMIZING THE MINING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
9. MITIGATION OF MINING IMPACTS
10. SOCIO-ECONOMIC DIMENSIONS OF THE MINING IMPACT
REFERENCES
APPENDIX A - CONVERSION CONSTANTS
APPENDIX B - PARTICULARS OF IMPORTANT OF METAL MINES IN THE WORLD
APPENDIX C - WORLD PRODUCTION OF MINERALS/METALS
APPENDIX D - LIST OF MAJOR ACCIDENTS RELATED TO MINING SINCE 1975
APPENDIX E - INDUSTRY STANDARDS (ISO 14001)
AUTHOR INDEX
SUBJECT INDEX