The experiment was conducted following a pot experimental design employing mine tailings soil.
Future updates of the database should, if possible, include these additions defining new elementary flows for abiotic unused extraction (e.g., "soil, overburden," "rock, tailings," "soil, excavated") and for plant species (e.g., "potato, at harvest").
In the engineered soil formation, one of the important attributes of the engineered tailings–soil is the establishment of native microbial communities and associated biogeochemical functions, which are critical to organic matter decomposition, nutrient cycling and sustainable productivity of native plant species after their establishment.
And so, over the course of three days, 9,000 tonnes of tailings and soil were removed.
In the mixtures of tailings and soil, opportunistic development of fungi and protists was found.
Removal of heavy metals from mine tailings and soil contaminated by copper mining activities was studied under batch electrodialytic conditions.
The contamination risk of tailings for soil, river sediment, river and groundwater was assessed by comparing the determined metal and ion contents with the corresponding limit values.
For the studies on diamond miners, tailings and soil samples were collected from three different mines.
Metal content was measured in mine tailings, efflorescent salts, soils, road dust, and residential soils to investigate contamination.
In addition, we traced the transport of contaminated particles from the tailings to surrounding soils by identifying Pb and Sr isotopic signatures in soil samples.
