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Tag Archives: mining
Tackling mine wastes
Hudson-Edwards, K. April 15, 2016. Tackling mine wastes. Science (352):288-290 Excerpts: Mine wastes are unwanted and uneconomic materials (including rock, sediment, tailings, metallurgical wastes, dusts, ash, and processing chemicals) that are found at or near mine sites in virtually every … Continue reading
550,000 abandoned mines, $50 billion to clean up the worst of them
[ Abandoned mines can cause soil erosion, heavy metal contamination (i.e., cyanide, lead, arsenic, mercury, uranium), and acid drainage that threatens thousands of streams and rivers. The EPA estimates it would cost $50 billion to reclaim abandoned and inactive mine … Continue reading
Posted in Congressional Record U.S., Mercury, Pollution, Water
Tagged good samaritan, government, house of representatives, mining, pollution
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Corrosion eats $552 billion infrastructure a year (6% of GDP)
USDOT. March 2002. Corrosion cost and preventive strategies in the United States. U.S. Department of transportation, Federal highway administration. 784 pages. NACE. Corrosion costs and preventive strategies in the United States. [ United States infrastructure was built when the … Continue reading
Posted in Bridges, Oil & Gas, Railroads, Transportation
Tagged corrosion, infrastructure, mining, nuclear waste, pipelines, transportation, utilities
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