Research Catalog

Title

Mine waste management : a resource for mining industry professionals, regulators, and consulting engineers / editors, Ian P.G. Hutchison, Richard D. Ellison ; sponsored by California Mining Association.

Publication

Boca Raton : Lewis Publishers, ©1992.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hutchison, Ian P. G.
• Ellison, Richard D.
• California Mining Association.

Description

ix, 654 pages : illustrations; 29 cm

Subject

• Mineral industries > Waste disposal > Environmental aspects > California
• Mineral industries > Waste disposal > Environmental aspects
• Water quality management > California
• Water quality management
• water quality management
• California

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

PERFORMANCE REVIEW OF MODERN MINE WASTE MANAGEMENT UNITS: Current mine waste management practices in California -- Performance history -- Regulatory implications -- MINE WASTE MANAGEMENT REQUIREMENTS: Overview of systems approach for determining mine waste management requirements -- Protecting beneficial uses of waters -- Identifying potential receiving waters and their beneficial uses -- Assessing physical and chemical properties of mine waste -- Site-specific factors -- Waste management unit containment -- The systems approach to designing waste containment -- Regulatory implications -- PREDICTION OF ACID GENERATION POTENTIAL: Acid rock drainage -- Acid generation prediction -- Acid generation and leachate migration control measures -- In-waste monitoring -- Regulatory implications -- ATTENUATION OF CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS: Mine wastes and chemistry -- Factors and mechanisms affecting contaminant migration -- Relationship between chemicals and mechanisms -- Appropriate levels of verification -- Regulatory implications -- CLIMATIC CONSIDERATIONS: Mine waste pile water balance -- Infiltration and recharge case histories -- Analytical approach to percolation evaluation -- Prediction of infiltration -- Regulatory implications -- LINER SYSTEM DESIGN: Types of liner systems -- Types of individual liner system components -- Liner system performance -- Regulatory implications -- CLOSURE REQUIREMENTS: Closure objectives -- Description of mine waste management units -- Designing for closure -- Closure technologies and design elements -- Regulations for closure -- HEAP LEACHING: Heap leach practice -- Design approach -- Heap leach guidelines -- GROUND WATER MONITORING: Factors to be considered when designing a monitoring system -- Elements of a monitoring system -- Technical approach to the design of a ground water monitoring system -- Regulatory implications -- ECONOMIC IMPACT EVALUATION: Regulatory analysis -- Cost analyses.

ISBN

• 0873717465
• 9780873717465

LCCN

91033444

OCLC

• ocm24667722
• 24667722
• SCSB-9244758

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library