Objective
There is a pressing need for SMEs active in mining to develop simple, inexpensive methods for removing eco-toxic metals from mine effluents. One particularly problematic metal is zinc, which is currently difficult to remove from neutral-pH effluents at reasonable cost. Zinc is particularly a problem in the effluents from lead-zinc and/or fluorspar mines, many of which are now worked by small, local SME mining companies, which are vital sources of local employment, and yet too small to maintain their own RTD capacity. This project aims to devise some simple, reliable approaches to minimise zinc impacts from such mines by developing strategies including (i) diversion and storage of zinc-rich waters within mine voids until such time as flows in receiving streams are high, and (ii) passive treatment of effluents in simple gravity-feed geochemical reactors, using one of three possible new approaches (co-precipitation with calcite, sorption onto ochre, anaerobic sulphate reduction in the presence of organic acids).
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences chemical sciences organic chemistry organic acids
- natural sciences chemical sciences inorganic chemistry transition metals
- social sciences economics and business business and management employment
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Coordinator
DL13 2TJ Frosterley
United Kingdom
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