acid mine drainage News
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Atlantic Richfield agrees to US$8m settlement for cleanup at superfund site
In a US Environmental Protection Agency settlement announced this week, the Atlantic Richfield Company agreed to treat acid mine drainage and resolve other liabilities at a cost of more than US$8 million at the Leviathan Mine Superfund Site in Alpine County, Calif., near the California-Nevada border. Under the settlement, ARC will treat acid mine drainage for 5 years -- at a cost the EPA ...
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South African mine finds way of removing uranium from groundwater
Acid mine drainage is one of the world's biggest environmental problems besides global warming. The national nuclear regulator has confirmed uranium contamination in drinking and agricultural water from gold mining activities in South Africa. Currently, the water quality and pollution into our water resources is a bigger health risk than HIV/AIDs.A test trial done with a organic medium developed ...
By SupaZOrb
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BioteQ to Present Workshop and Technical Paper at ICARD Conference
BioteQ Environmental Technologies Inc. (TSX: BQE), a leader in the treatment of industrial waste water, will present a short course workshop and a technical paper at the International Conference on Acid Rock Drainage (ICARD), a conference held every four years focused on prediction, prevention, mitigation, and remediation of acid rock drainage in the mining industry. The conference is attended by ...
By BQE Water
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U.S. EPA proposes to add Northern, Central California hazardous waste sites to superfund’s national priorities list
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to add two abandoned mines that discharge toxic pollutants to California waterways to the Superfund National Priorities List. Superfund is the federal program that investigates and cleans up the most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the country that pose risks to human health and the environment. The New Idria ...
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EPA awards $55,600 to promote deckers creek restoration
“Today we begin a new chapter in the history of Deckers Creek – one holding great promise for both the health of the creek and the city’s economy,” said EPA Regional Administrator Shawn M. Garvin. “This project clarifies the connection between economic investment and resource restoration, while generating the necessary information for treating polluted water.” ...
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BioteQ to Present at AMD Workshop in China
BioteQ Environmental Technologies Inc. (TSX: BQE), a leader in the treatment of industrial water and process solutions, will deliver a presentation at the upcoming International Acid and Metalliferous Drainage (AMD) Workshop, a conference hosted by the Chinese Network for Acid Mine Drainage (CNAMD). The conference will be attended by representatives from the mining industry, technology solutions ...
By BQE Water
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EPA Brownfields Grants Help Revitalize Luzerne Co. Mine-Scarred Land - Two $200,000 Brownfields Grants to Support Site Cleanup
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced the award of $400,000 in brownfields grants to Earth Conservancy in Luzerne County. The funding will support efforts underway to clean up mine scarred lands for reuse and redevelopment and prevent acid mine drainage going into local waterways. “I applaud Earth Conservancy and its many partners for reclaiming nearly 2,000 acres of ...
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To Preserve Precious Water Mines should be using GRP Pipes
Conserving South Africa’s water is a top priority as a Water Affairs study shows that South Africans will be using more water by 2025 than is currently available. By 2030, it will be using 17% more, according to the 2030 Water Resources Group. To guarantee mine wastewater never contaminates South Africa’s water systems, mine operators should be using corrosive-resistant glass-fibre ...
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U.S. EPA adds Northern, Central California abandoned mines to list of nation’s worst toxic sites / cleanup efforts underway at New Idria, Blue Ledge Mines
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is adding two new sites to the Superfund National Priorities List in California. The abandoned mine sites are located in San Benito and Siskiyou Counties. Earlier this year, EPA proposed to add Northern California’s Blue Ledge mine site and Central California’s New Idria mercury mine site to the Superfund National Priorities List because of ...
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Frost & Sullivan applauds Fraser Alexander for advancing innovations in AMD and MIW Treatment
Based on its ongoing analyses of methods of sustainable development in water treatment, Frost & Sullivan recognises Fraser Alexander with the 2013 South Africa Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation. Fraser Alexander's shareholding in Mine Water Treatment Technologies (Miwatek) has opened up access to a recently developed and highly innovative acid mine drainage (AMD) and mine ...
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ARCO Ordered to Investigate Radioactivity at Anaconda Mine
SAN FRANCISCO, California (ENS) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday ordered to the Atlantic Richfield Company, ARCO, to begin an investigation to determine the nature and extent of contamination at the Anaconda Copper Mine in Yerington, Nevada. The order requires ARCO to conduct a remedial investigation and feasibility study for most of the 3,468 acre mine site. The EPA ...
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Mine Discharge Pact Clears the Way for 9/11 Memorial
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, October 23, 2007 (ENS) - Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Kathleen McGinty Monday announced an agreement with a coal company that could lead the federal government closer to building a permanent memorial on the land near Shanksville, where United Flight 93 crashed September 11, 2001. United Flight 93 was one of four planes hijacked as part ...
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Wind drives oxygen transport in Arctic waste rock
The growth of the diamond mining industry in Canada’s Northwest Territories has led to significant economic benefit to the region with three operating mines producing approximately 13% of the world’s diamonds in 2008, according to the Mining Association of Canada. However, the long-term benefit to northern communities will depend on careful environmental management of mining activities. The ...
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Principles of In Situ Bioremediation and Molecular Biological Tools for Site Assessment and Performance Monitoring
Join Microbial Insights and EOS Remediation for a Free Lunch and Learn Workshop October 20, 2014 October 27, 2014 10:00 am - 2:30 pm 10:00 am - 2:30pm Courtyard Marriott Hotel Melbourne Marriott Hotel 7-11 Talavera Road Corner of Exhibition and Lonsdale Streets North Ryde, NSW ...
By Redox Tech
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Massey Energy to pay largest civil penalty ever for water permit violations
Massey Energy Company, Inc. has agreed to pay a $20 million civil penalty in a corporate-wide settlement to resolve Clean Water Act violations at coal mines in West Virginia and Kentucky, the Justice Department and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced. This is the largest civil penalty in EPA’s history levied against a company for wastewater discharge permit violations. 'This is a ...
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Less and More: Why You Should Pump Slurries with a Peristaltic Pump
LESS WATER Peristaltic Pumps Use Less Water Hose pumps can circulate slurry SGs of 1.6 to 1.8 or up to 80% solid content. The traditional centrifugal pump loses efficiency when the slurry SG reaches 1.3 or 30% solids. With this limitation, slurry pumps have significant process water demands : on a plant processing 70 tonnes of ore per hour, every time a hose pump replaces a process slurry pump, ...
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Pennsylvania Groundwater Contaminated By Coal Ash
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, September 18, 2007 (ENS) - Disposing of coal ash in mines is contaminating water supplies throughout Pennsylvania, according to a report released today by the advocacy group Clean Air Task Force and the nonprofit, public interest law firm Earthjustice. In 10 of 15 mines examined across the state, groundwater and streams near areas where coal ash, or coal combustion ...
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Toxic spills to Appalachian waters cost Massey coal $20m
The fourth largest coal company in the United States, Massey Energy, has agreed to pay a $20 million civil penalty to resolve alleged Clean Water Act violations at coal mines in West Virginia and Kentucky, the U.S. Justice Department and Environmental Protection Agency announced today. This is the largest civil penalty in EPA's history levied against a company for wastewater discharge permit ...
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$500 million plan set for mine site cleanup in New Mexico
EPA has issued a Superfund record of decision (ROD) calling for the responsible parties to spend at least $500 million to clean up the Molycorp. Inc. mine site near Questa, New Mexico. The site, which is owned by Chevron Mining, Inc., consists of an operating mine and milling facility, a tailings pile, and a tailings pipeline running from the mill to the pile. Contaminated material includes ...
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Ecosphere announces global licensing opportunities for Ozonix(R) Water Treatment Technology
Ecosphere Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB:ESPH), a water engineering, technology licensing and innovative U.S. manufacturing company, today announced a list of available industries and applications where its patented Ozonix(R) technology can be licensed to replace harmful liquid chemicals in water treatment operations around the world. "Following the successful rollout of our patented Ozonix(R) ...
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