Best Practices and Innovative Solutions to Increase the Safety of Tailing Management Facilities

A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Mineralogy and Biogeochemistry".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2022) | Viewed by 402

Special Issue Editors

School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Babes-Bolyai University, 400294 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Interests: hazards; risk assessment; tailings management facility; safety assessment; land-use planning
Institute of Mineralogy and Geology, University of Miskolc, 3501 Miskolc, Hungary
Interests: mineral exploration; mineral resource management; mine waste mineralogy and geochemistry
Department of Applied Chemistry, Szent István University, 1118 Budapest, Hungary
Interests: environmental geochemistry; toxic element contamination; contamination risk assessment; mine waste risk assessment; geochemical mapping; digital spatial and temporal modeling; monitoring
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Mining is one of the key activities of economic growth, and the supply of raw materials is essential and critical for industrial production, infrastructure construction, and in general for technology development and future green technologies. Extractive (mining) waste is globally the largest waste stream presented in different forms. The most critical mining waste from a safety point of view is the fine-grained material resulting from mining process plants, usually transported via hydraulic methods to and stored in tailing management facilities (TMF). Annual quantities up to 100 billion tons of solid waste, resulting from the processing of ores containing iron, copper, aluminum, gold, silver, or scarce elements and from the mining of different minerals, are stored in these mining waste facilities. Taking into consideration the scarcity of these non-renewable sources and the future processing of lower grade ores, it is expected that even higher quantities of solid wastes will be generated and deposited, leading to a higher pollution potential and accident risk.

Large-scale accidents leading to ecological and human disasters as well as cases of long-lasting pollution show the importance of safe and proper construction and management of TMFs worldwide. Innovative solutions in design, management, and monitoring of these facilities are essential for the sustainable future mining industry and raw material supply.

Contributors to this Special Issue should address topics related to innovative practices for TMF management, emerging technologies for monitoring and control of TMF safety, accident investigations, remediation of contaminated sites, and pollution control techniques.

Dr. Zoltán Török
Dr. Ferenc Mádai
Dr. Győző Jordán
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • tailing ponds
  • tailing management facilities
  • safety assessment
  • hazard analysis
  • environmental pollution
  • accident risk
  • risk assessment
  • deposition techniques
  • water management

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