RT Journal Article
T1 Metal(loid) release from sulfide-rich wastes to the environment: The case of the Iberian Pyrite Belt (SW Spain)
A1 Ruiz Cánovas, Carlos
A1 Macías Suárez, Francisco
A1 Basallote Sánchez, María Dolores
A1 Olías Álvarez, Manuel
A1 Nieto Liñán, José Miguel
A1 Pérez López, Rafael
AB Sulfide-mining wastes may lead to severe environmental and human health risks, especially challenging in abandoned mines without environmental regulation. This work is aimed at discussing the environmental problems associated with this type of wastes, the risks posed by metal(loid) exposure to living organisms, as well as the measures available to mitigate such risks, taking the case of the Iberian Pyrite Belt (SW Iberian Peninsula), as an example, worldwide. The release of metal(loid)s from these wastes upon weathering is strongly controlled by mineral assemblage, processing technique, grain size distribution, and occurrence of highly reactive secondary minerals. Exposure to these wastes may pose a severe risk for humans and animals, and thus, remediation measures must be adopted in abandoned mines. Among these measures, recovery of valuable metals from sulfide wastes could be a promising environmentally friendly solution; however, grade and mineralogical siting of valuable metals, as well as selective recovery methods, must be site-by-site investigated.
PB Elsevier
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/20438
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/20438
LA eng
NO Cánovas, C. R., Macías, F., Basallote, M. D., Olías, M., Nieto, J. M., & Pérez-López, R. (2021). Metal(loid) release from sulfide-rich wastes to the environment: The case of the Iberian Pyrite Belt (SW Spain). In Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health (Vol. 20, p. 100240). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coesh.2021.100240
NO This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy andCompetitiveness through the research projects SCYRE (CGL2016-78783-C2-1-R) and CAPOTE (CGL2017-86050-R). C.R Ca ́novas and M.D.Basallote thank the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation for thePostdoctoral Fellowships granted under application references RYC2019-027949-I and IJC2018-035056-I, respectively. F. Macı ́as was funded by theR&D FEDER Andalucı ́a 2014e2020 call through the project RENOVAME(FEDER; UHU-1255729). The authors would like to thank to the GuestEditor Dr. Georgios Bartzas and two anonymous reviewers for their helpfulcomments that notably improved the quality of the original manuscript.
NO Funding for open access charge: Universidad de Huelva / CBUA
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
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