Hydrogeology of the Mining Area
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrogeology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 January 2026 | Viewed by 1
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mine site reclamation; hydrogeology; hydrochemistry; water quality; soil and water conservation; environmental geochemistry; water resource management; water analysis; environment
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Interests: water pollution; acid mine drainage; diatoms; biogeochemistry; pyrite mining; microbial corrosion; mining environmental sustainability
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The mining industry, through its activities, can face a number of environmental issues. Some of the issues faced by the mining industry are the management of mine waste, the reclamation of tailing storage facilities, air emissions, and water resources. With respect to water resources, open-pit and underground mining operations require extensive dewatering to keep facilities dry and to facilitate mining operations. This dewatering of open pits or underground galleries can in some cases result in a significant lowering of the groundwater table. The magnitude and extent of this drawdown is usually predicted in advance, using numerical modeling during the project feasibility stage. However, in cases where mining facilities are located in urbanized areas where the population has access to drinking water through domestic wells or surface water intakes, some local residents may be concerned that mining activities could lead to a deterioration in the quality of their drinking water and drastic drops in the piezometric level in their wells. Additionally, the filling of mine galleries with mine backfill (commonly used in the mining industry) may eventually lead to changes in the permeability of the rock mass and affect the hydrogeology of the site.
In the same way that the cessation of mining operations can lead to a rise in the aquifer’s water table, this rise could eventually lead to a number of problems related to possible underground contamination (oxidation and generation of acid mine drainage) and even modify the stresses to which the walls of the massifs are exposed.
This Special Issue aims to address all aspects of hydrogeology and hydrochemistry in and around underground and surface mining sites. It also aims to establish the hydrogeological behavior of these mining sites after the cessation of mining operations.
Dr. Abdelkabir Maqsoud
Dr. Ana Teresa Luís
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- hydrogeological characterization
- hydrogeological modeling
- dewatering
- open pit
- deep mining
- hydrochemistry
- backfill
- environmental impact
- mine site reclamation
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