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Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis; May 2004; v. 4; no. 2; p. 181; DOI: 10.1144/1467-7873/03-029
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Book review

Environmental Aspects of Mine Wastes, edited byJ.L. Jambor, D.W. Blowes & I.M. Ritchie, 2003, Short Course Handbook Vol. 31, Mineralogical Association of Canada, Ottawa, 430 pp. (see http://www.mineralogicalassociation.ca)

Rob Bowell

SRK Consulting Cardiff, UK

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This volume contains papers presented at the Mineralogical Association of Canada's 31st short course entitled "Environmental Aspects of Mine Wastes". This short course is a successor to the 22nd Mineralogical Association of Canada short course on this subject in 1994.

Despite almost a decade of research programmes (and considerable research funds globally), and several significant international conferences (as this book testifies), the same issues associated with environmental impact still plague the mining industry today. To say that no progress is made is untrue: considerable advances have been made in the understanding of acid mine drainage generation, its prediction, and in designing effective strategies to remediate its environmental significance, from prevention of the chemical reactions through to elegant and costly treatment plants. As the editors state in the preface of this volume, "much progress has been made, but much remains unproven or unknown".

The short course volume contains a total of 20 papers written by many of the prominent researchers in the field and as such provides a comprehensive review of the current ‘state of knowledge’. A minor criticism from this reviewer is the apparent ignorance of many of the . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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