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Objective:
Mining activities in Russia, associated with
coal and mixed sulphide ores and concentrates generate every year, millions
of tons of hazardous wastes, which are stockpiled in the vicinity of major
cities. These wastes are oxidized, due to the
action of precipitation, oxygen and bacteria and therefore, acidic waters
and leachates with a very low pH and high concentrations of heavy and toxic
elements are generated. These leachates migrate and contaminate severely
major lakes, rivers and groundwater reservoirs, endangering thus the quality
of the environment and the health of million of people.
The project, aims 1) at the development and application of preventative and
remedial technologies in order
a) to decontaminate the hazardous wastes; b) to clean up the effluents and;
c) to isolate hazardous waste dumps, in order to eliminate all these active
pollution sources and protect the environment, 2) to develop a quantitative
risk assessment methodology in order to assess the risk at the disposal
sites and 3) to develop an integrated environmental management scheme for
coal and mixed sulphide wastes. |
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ENVIMAN and
MinURALS projects
have formed a cluster. |
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