Water pumped from the Barredo-Figaredo mining reservoir (Asturias, NW Spain), which is currently exploited for geothermal use, has been studied and compared to water from a separate, nearby mountain mine and a river that receives mine water discharge and partially infiltrates into the mine workings.
Suspended and dissolved solids, and particularly iron content, of mine water results in some scaling and partial clogging of heat exchangers, but water temperature is stable (22 °C) and increases with depth, so, considering the available flow (> 100 L s− 1), the Barredo-Figaredo mining reservoir represents a sustainable, long-term resource for geothermal use.
In Romania, where people still remember with horror an environmental catastrophe in January 2000 during which 100,000 cubic meters of cyanide-tainted water were discharged from a gold mine reservoir in the northern city of Baia Mare, environmental groups say they are deeply concerned by proposals to allow cyanide mining to resume.
Serious problems have arisen as a result of timber harvesting, grazing, oil exploration, mining, and reservoir operations in the Rockies.
Cropland and pasture/hay land had some small gross increases across several ecoregions, however, twice as much agricultural land in the SECP was replaced by a combination of urbanization, expanded mining, and reservoir construction.
The next day Mohammed took us mountain-biking around Feynan's incredible historic sites, including Roman copper mines, a reservoir and a neolithic village.
Her new projects continue to mine the reservoir of collective memory and examine the claim it makes on the present.
The Gazetter also lists two "White Swan" toponyms: a mine and reservoir near St Arnaud, on the Victorian goldfields.
Human impact on Amazonian floodplains is increasing due to agriculture, cattle and buffalo farming, logging, civil construction projects, mining and reservoirs for hydroelectric power (Junk, 2000).
The calculated result has been used to evaluate subsidence-induced damage resulting from mining beneath a reservoir.
The ability to capture permeability of fractured porous media plays a significant role in several engineering applications, including reservoir, mining, petroleum and geotechnical engineering.
