Geochemical Effects of Mining on Watershed Environment
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Quality and Contamination".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 February 2024) | Viewed by 468
Special Issue Editor
Interests: mine ecological restoration; coal-based solid waste ecological utilization; soil and groundwater environmental restoration; coal mine water quality; coal mine water hydrochemical characteristics and pollution causal mechanism; mine water resources utilization
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The development of mining is a “double-edged sword”, which brings economic benefits to people while also causing damage to the environment of the watershed around the mine, and its unreasonable development pattern has led to many geological and ecological problems such as the decay of water resources and water ecological degradation. Although some progress has been made in the past decades on the geochemical impact of mining on watershed environments, the mineral extraction sector still faces many challenges related to the disturbance of watershed ecosystems by tailings leachate, mine drainage, transport and dispersion of pollutants (e.g., heavy metals, sulfate, salinity, etc.) in the mining environment and environmental (bio)geochemistry in the mining environment. The papers invited for this special issue focus on new methods, perspectives and mechanisms related to the geochemical impact of mining on watershed environment, including but not limited to hydrogeological and geochemical investigations, water quality formation mechanisms of mine water, pollutant migration and evolution patterns and influencing factors, pollutant source analysis, numerical simulation of pollutant transport, hydrogeochemical characterization methods, etc.
Prof. Dr. Kai Zhang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- mining and water quality
- hydrochemical interactions water/rocks
- utilization of mine water resources
- analysis of pollution sources
- pollution causal mechanism
- hydrogeochemical characterization methods
- hydrogeochemical assessment
- reactive transport numerical simulations
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