Management and Monitoring of Water and Soils Associated with Mining Activities

Dear Colleagues,

In many parts of the world, water and soil resources are at risk, mainly due to climate change, population growth, overexploitation, mining activities and agricultural practices. Ensuring aequate access to natural resources, in terms of both quantity and quality, is one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Mining acitivities is one of the major environmental issues that often causes complete degradation of ecosystems during and/or after mine closure. Globally, significant amounts of potential toxic elements could pose a great threat to the populations living near to and even far away from mines, as these elements can travel across large distances.

Despite several developments in recent decades, the mineral extraction sector is facing new challenges associated with environmental geochemistry in the mining environment, from the prediction of water and soil quality to mine site reclamation/closure and monitoring.

This Special Issue aims to cover the diversity of research associated with integrated water and soil assessment and monitoring, including innovative approaches and new perspectives with practical applications related to the environmental geochemistry in the mining environment. Papers providing examples of the methodological challenges and the novel tools for monitoring and management of water and soil associated with mining areas are welcome.

Prof. Dr. Margarida Antunes 
Prof. Dr. Alicja Kicińska
Guest Editors

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