Sentence examples for mining soil from inspiring English sources

Lewis said the successful cultivation of the proteobacteria that produced the antibiotic suggests that mining soil for new medicines may once again prove fruitful in the search for weapons against human pathogens.

Poor farmers in various parts of the world are mining soil nutrients because they lack access to sufficient organic manure or mineral fertilizer (Bremen, Groot and van Keulen, 2001).

The objective of this study was to quantify preconsolidation pressure (σp), compression index (CI) and least limiting water range (LLWR) of a reclaimed coal mining soil under different cover crops, in Candiota, RS, Brazil.

With the availability of topsoil frequently limited in mining, soil cover designs that maximise the use of this resource across the newly-created surfaces after mining should be considered.

The results showed that, in the period before mining, soil bulk density occurred in the order A. ordosica > P.

If not done with care, he says, the trend "risks reintroducing very erosive agricultural methods," thereby switching "an energy system based on mining oil for one based on mining soil".

Results from soil samples under different anthropogenic perturbations showed significant (P < 0.001) differences in CO2 contents (mg h− 1 100 g− 1) produced by agricultural (3.3) and mining soils (1.3).

Thlaspi was unable to survive in mining soils containing either a level higher than 11 000 mg kg−1 of Pb and 4500 mg kg−1 of Zn, while engineered plants yielded an average of 0.5 kg per plant.

Two different amendments, an iron-rich water treatment residue (Fe-WTR), a municipal solid waste compost (MSW-C) and their combination (Fe-WTR + MSW-C) were added at different rates (from 2 to 4% w/w) to three mining soils (S1, S2, S3) mainly polluted with As (from 371 to 22,661 mg·kg− 1 d.w).

In highly polluted soils like mining soils, where the removal of metals by phytoextraction using hyperaccumulator plants is not efficient due to the slowness of the process, the best adapted method is phytostabilization [ 3].

William J. Doyle, the president and chief executive of Potash, said Tuesday that farmers who had not being using fertilizer recently were "mining the soil".