 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mobilization of heavy metals from historical smelting slag dumps, north Queensland, Australia B. G. LOTTERMOSER*...6811, Cairns, QLD 4870, Australia ABSTR ACT Slag dumps occur at several historical smelting sites in...Australia. The microcrystalline slags contain primary slag phases, relict flux, ore and furnace materials and...secondary weathering related minerals. Common primary slag phases are glass, Zn-rich fayalite (± Zn-rich kirschsteinite)...alloys (Cu3Sn), and unknown metal compounds. The slag materials contain wt.% concentrations of Zn and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mineral precipitates from a historical smelting slag dump, Río Tinto, Spain B. G. Lottermoser, Cairns...mineralogy of mineral efflorescences associated with slag deposits at the historical Río Tinto smelter site...precipitates at seepage points at the base of the slag dump and as solid aggregates in protected overhangs...Evaporation of seepage waters emanating from the slag dump causes the precipitation of mobilised elements...sulfate contamination of Río Tinto waters. Key words: Slag, mineral efflorescences, gypsum, epsomite, hexahydrite |  | Vítková, M., Ettler, V., Johan, Z., Kříbek, B., Šebek, O., Mihaljevič, M. (2010) Primary and secondary phases in copper-cobalt smelting slags from the Copperbelt Province, Zambia. Mineralogical Magazine, 74 (4) 581-600 doi:10.1180/minmag.2010.074.4.581 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | skeletal/dendritic crystal shapes indicated rapid cooling of the slag melt. Copper and cobalt were found in low concentrations...and sphaerocobaltite (CoCO3), were observed on the slag surfaces. They indicate that the slags studied are...produce Cu matte and remove Fe into the silicate slag. The second step is generally performed in Peirce-Smith...its refinement in conventional PS converters. The slag discarded generally contained <1 wt.% Cu (Cutler...tonnes of Cu concentrate per year. The discarded slag contains up to 1 wt.% Cu (T. Gonzáles, Mufulira |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 737±747 The leaching behaviour of lead metallurgical slag in high-molecular-weight (HMW ) organic solutions...contaminants (Pb, Zn, Cu, As) in `soil-like' environments. Slag was submitted to a 112-day batch leaching experiment...MINTEQA2 calculations and confirmed on the leached slag surface by SEM and Raman spectrometry. Compared...predominant during the long-term interaction of slag with an HMW organic solution of real soil. As a...re-vegetation of slag dumps may be considered as a possible scenario for slag management. K EY WORDS : slag, Pb metallurgy |  | | Journal (issue) | | i i i Journal of Mines an�1 Minerals I s s u e No. 15i ,;. ,;�'S '' ` . / . � 1 • •� • ' 4... Sрeгirнcvг: 70 х t30 .r 45»гт UK Journal of Mines and I b i e r a l s Issue No 8 A U T U M N 1 9 9...Hall Mineral Collection N. Turner. 1 Rammelsberg Slag Minerals 1 W. van den Berg and C. van Loon. Diary...Doncaster, South Yorkshire. 2 3 0 Sainte Marie-Aux-Mines Show Report D.I. Green. 3 9 Mineralisation of...ARTICLES Articles for inclusion in the U K Journal of Mines & Minerals are welcome. Acceptance for publication |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | present in greater amounts in leachate from weathered slag samples. The documented amounts of As, Zn, Pb and...purposes. K EY WORDS : Zn-Pb slag, slag composition, heavy elements mobilization, slag crystallization in undercooling...bulk compositions and leaching tests for two slag dumps from the Bytom Piekary Śla˛skie area, Upper...includes 14 large cities, over 50 coal and Zn-Pb mines, more than 20 smelters, a few coal-based power plants...reduction furnace continuously and put on waste dumps (Kotucha, 2008). At a similar installation in Świe˛tochłowice |  | Fernández-Landero, Sandra, Fernández-Caliani, Juan Carlos, Giráldez, María Inmaculada, Morales, Emilio, Barba-Brioso, Cinta, González, Isabel (2023) Soil Contaminated with Hazardous Waste Materials at Rio Tinto Mine (Spain) Is a Persistent Secondary Source of Acid and Heavy Metals to the Environment. Minerals, 13 (4) 456 doi:10.3390/min13040456 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | toxic heavy metals were found especially in the slag-contaminated soil. Copper, Zn, and Pb were the most...wastes: (a) roasted pyrite pyrite piles; (b) slag(b) dumps; and (c) heap leaching photographs of extensive...extensive the extensive wastes: (a) roasted piles; slag dumps; and (c) heap grounds grounds (photo A.(photo...Rio Tinto Company (RTC) was formed to operate the mines and the scale of the operations was dramatically...extensively worked from several open-pit and underground mines, focusing on copper-rich ores and massive pyrite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | words: slag, derelict mines, leachability, mineralogy, elemental composition I. INTRODUCTION Slag is a...processing to recover metals. At many older mines, slag was intentionally dumped near the furnaces that...it, leaving behind coherent piles or jumbles of slag weighing many thousands of tonnes. Its appearance...solidification after smelting. These voids help to make slag porous and in places, permeable, allowing environmental...environmental water to infiltrate and leachate to exfiltrate. Slag from base metal ores is composed of minerals including |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 375–384 Published online 24 September 2015 Zn-Pb slag crystallization: evaluating temperature conditions...19th century. Thus, there is a great variety of slag textures and compositions reflecting changes in...calcination and precise dosages of coal/coke and add-ons. Slag samples were collected at three localities with...could be helpful in retrieving the temperature of slag crystallization. This study concentrates on the...compared with phase diagrams results. Zinc-lead slag dumps are a common feature of the landscape of Upper |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mountains, southwestern Poland. The prevailing massive slag has a chemical composition dominated by FeO (up...olivine and hercynite. The second type, a porous slag, is poorer in FeO (up to 28 wt.%) and richer in...composition and distribution of trace elements in slag phases vary from sample to sample, which is consistent...diagrams used in this study indicate that most of the slag samples have solidified under conditions of strong...should be used to reconstruct the temperature of slag formation. Our mineralogical and chemical study |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mine sites, the environmental footprint of modern mines is generally reduced and mine wastes are better...mixed with cement used as backfi ll in underground mines Clay-rich tailings as an amendment to sandy soils...people who wash over the dumps from exhausted and abandoned mines, and those dumps which are derived from...reactions in large oxidizing sulfidic waste rock dumps may provide future opportunities to obtain geothermal...applications are commonly pursued at operating mines (TABLE 1). The recovery of metals and salts from |  | | Book | | destroy the evidence of earlier work so that ancient mines are poor subjects for archaeological research. The...areas selected. As is to be expected, it is the mines that have been most extensively worked in modern...modern mining, however, it is precisely in these mines that much archaeological information has been dispersed...extended working of the great majority of the mines that have been re-opened in modern times. I his...1515. About 1551 the rediscovery of rich silver mines near Guadalcanal north of Seville drew the attention |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | is currently in the collection of the École des Mines, Paris, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 2. A fine Gwennap...host rock (Jenkins 1981), and the Burrus and other mines in the Pyramid district, also north of Reno. In...Antofagasta Region of Chile is noted for large copper mines with extensive secondary copper assemblages, chalcophyllite...other continents, it is Europe with its old classic mines that boasts the largest number of chalcophyllite...localities are the mines of Gwennap Parish near Truro (Tindle 2008). These mines include not only Wheal |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | was built on the gold and silver extracted from mines in the Americas. The importance of mining was recognized...rock, loose sediment, mill tailings, metallurgical slag and wastes, roasted ore, flue dust, ash, processing...largest in the world. The mine is surrounded by waste dumps and tailings ponds, the latter of which also contain...Western Australia, with its attendant grey waste dumps and grey-white tailings ponds. The town of Kalgoorlie...themselves considered mine wastes. At well-managed mines sites, such mine waste water is stored in settling |  | Oparin, V. N., Ainbinder, I. I., Rodionov, Yu. I., Patskevich, P. G., Tapsiev, A. P., Freidin, A. M., Badtiev, B. P., Glukhov, V. A. (2007) Concept of a mine of tomorrow for deep mining at gentle copper-and-nickel deposits. Journal of Mining Science, 43 (6) 646-654 doi:10.1007/s10913-007-0071-x | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | for many future decades. Today five underground mines produce ore at depths up to 1500 m. During the years...air. The main mining technology applied at deep mines of “GMK Norilsk Nickel” Company is the longwall...12]. The technical level reached at large leading mines abroad and development trends towards underground...experience shows that slice mining methods applied at mines in Norilsk Region guarantee the maximal mineral...than 1 km2) deposits in Komsomolsky and Oktyabrsky Mines. The total area of seven northern orebodies belonging |  | Warchulski, R., Mendecki, M., Gawęda, A., Sołtysiak, M., Gadowski, M. (2019) Rainwater-induced migration of potentially toxic elements from a Zn–Pb slag dump in Ruda Śląska in light of mineralogical, geochemical and geophysical investigations. Applied Geochemistry, 109. 104396 doi:10.1016/j.apgeochem.2019.104396 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | migration of potentially toxic elements from a Zn–Pb slag dump in Ruda Śląska in light of mineralogical, geochemical...A B S T R A C T Keywords: Zn-Pb slag Potentially toxic elements Slag weathering Rainfall leaching EM...heavy industry, including mining and smelting. Slag dumps scattered across the region are the sources of...At the slag dump in Ruda Śląska, it is possible to distinguish three types of slag: (i) slag associated...glassy slag composed of glass and single crystals of melilite and wollastonite; and (iii) slag composed |  | | Report (issue) | | flooding, landsliding, and subsidence over underground mines. In 1973, information was most complete relative...problem of surface subsidence over underground coal mines was fairly complete in some aspects and in others...related surface subsidence, and the Redstone coal bed mines, Allegheny, Washington, and Westmoreland Counties...highway cuts and embankments, surface mines, mine dumps, slag heaps. This category approximates "disturbed...Land modified-by-man maps show: Surface (strip) mines, reclaimed and unreclaimed. Primarily coal but includes |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | groundwater contamination [3–12]. Thus, base-metal slag deposits at the Penn Mine in California contained...part of the Sierra Almagrera, where the main slag dumps were generated between 1850 and 1885 (Figure...F: Main fractures. (b) Detail of smelting slags dumps in Sierra Almagrera (Almería, Spain). (c) Detail...dissolved metals are similar to other slag Minerals 2012, 2 482 dumps [6,7,13] suggesting that the slags...is low (0.0 to –125 mV), which is the case in the slag/sewage sludge experiment. Although lead mobility |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mineralogy and the release of trace elements from slag from the Hegeler Zinc smelter, Illinois (USA) Nadine...2009 Editorial handling by R. Fuge a b s t r a c t Slag from the former Hegeler Zn-smelting facility in...most slag samples is dominated by SiO2, Al2O3, Fe2O3 and CaO. The bulk composition of the slag suggests...suggests a high silica content of the melt. Bulk slag trace-element chemistry shows that the dominant...and therefore less leached when compared to the slag samples with lower bulk Zn concentrations where |  | Rosado, L., Morais, C., Candeias, A. E., Pinto, A. P., Guimarães, F., Mirão, J. (2008) Weathering of S. Domingos (Iberian Pyritic Belt) abandoned mine slags. Mineralogical Magazine, 72 (1) 489-494 doi:10.1180/minmag.2008.072.1.489 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | leachable of the elements studied. K EY WORDS : slag, acid mine drainage, metal pollution, S. Domingos...the chemical and mineralogical composition of the slag; (2) to identify the chemical and mineralogical...pollutants’ geochemical behaviour. FIG. 1. Piles of slag in S. Domingos mine and its spatial relationship...et al., 2004). The association between metal and slag phase is an important control on the availability...(Parsons et al., 2001). Moreover, the dispersion of slag grains can control the soil geochemistry near smelting |  | Zubkova, N. V., Chukanov, N. V., Pekov, I. V., Pushcharovsky, D. Yu., Katerinopoulos, A., Vuduris, P., Magganas, A. (2019) New Data on Fiedlerite-1A from Ancient Slags of Lavrion, Greece: Crystal Structure and Hydrogen Bonding. Doklady Earth Sciences, 486 (1) 517-520 doi:10.1134/s1028334x1905009x | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (lead was extracted in a subordinate amount), while slag containing other components (residual Pb, as well...mainly buried in the sea. The interaction of various slag components with seawater for more than two thousand...To date, their diversity in the ancient Lavrion slag has exceeded one hundred, and this number includes...“metallurgical slag–seawater.” This paper presents new data on fiedlerite-1A from ancient slag dumps buried in...finding of single crystals of the fiedlerite1A in the slag from Paha Limani allowed to refine its crystal structure |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 3.433 A MINERALOGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL STUDY OF SLAG FROM THE HISTORICAL O’DONNELL ROAST YARDS, SUDBURY...Sudbury, ON, P3E 2C6, Canada Abstract Highly altered slag samples from the historical O’Donnell Roast Yards...alteration halos around the center of the remnant slag and rock piles indicate strong variations in the...chemical and mineralogical composition of the altered slag with lateral distance and depth. The concentration...concentration of trace elements in these surficial slag samples is controlled by the proportions of spinel phases |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mobility in leachate from lead-zinc metallurgical slag: experimental approach and long-term assessment...between smelter slag and water show differences depending on the origin of the slag. The studied samples...phases. An ‘oxidizing’ scenario can be proposed for slag waste disposal, considering that cerussite (PbCO3)...leached from the slag and in particular from the ore-processing slag. Quenched glass-rich slag from old car-battery...of Pb, especially in acidic environments. Neither slag would therefore be suitable for recycling for civil |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | were hydrated by rain and soil water in the mine dumps producing basic lead phases. Chemical composition...quantitatively explain their formation in the medieval mine dumps by the reaction of the lead oxides with a weathering...phases in other anthropogenic environments like slag dumps, lead contaminated soils or in contact to concrete...the shape, ash layers, blackened surfaces, and dumps containing typically red-colored rock specimens...small scale. Former melt. Very rare specimens show slag-like surfaces or vesicular, glassy, colored crusts |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geometallurgical Characterization of Non-Ferrous Historical Slag in Western Tasmania: Identifying Reprocessing Options...the slag during the smelting process. Today, the former smelter site consists of two large slag piles...geometallurgical and geo-environmental properties of these slag materials (n = 280) were determined. The South and...techniques could be explored, as well re-smelting. These slag materials are classified geoenvironmentally as potentially...mineral processing waste (e.g., waste rock, tailings, slag, spent heap leach) generated annually [4]. While |
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