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Recultivation of mining waste dumps - Environmental aspects

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Abstract

With the 100 M tons of coal produced per year Poland is the biggest European producer of hard coal. Around 85% of the produced coal is used for direct energy production, almost whole rest is used for indirect energy production (though processes of coal coking). The side effect of coal production is large quantity of waste. Majority of them is recycled during production process but still large fraction is usually dumped. The large quantities of valuable materials are stored in mining dumps. In recent years reclamation of them is being undertaken. The environmental impact of dump reclamation processes and the final results of such processes are described in the paper. The analysis is based on LCA approach.

Original languageEnglish
Pages773-780
Number of pages8
Publication statusPublished - 2008
Event8th International Scientific Conference on Modern Management of Mine Producing, Geology and Environmental Protection, SGEM 2008 - Albena, Bulgaria
Duration: 16 Jun 200820 Jun 2008

Conference

Conference8th International Scientific Conference on Modern Management of Mine Producing, Geology and Environmental Protection, SGEM 2008
Country/TerritoryBulgaria
CityAlbena
Period16/06/0820/06/08

Keywords

  • Coal mining
  • Environmental impact
  • LCA
  • Mining dumps

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Geology
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology

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