Green Mining
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Extractive Metallurgy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 581
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mineral processing; extractive metallurgy; molecular modeling; green mining; urban mining
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Interests: sustainable processing; extractive metallurgy; hydrometallurgy; solvometallurgy; waste valorization; effluent desalination; water–energy nexus
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The mining and metals industry plays a crucial role in global development, especially in today’s high-tech world. In the current era of technological development, the applications and the demand for minerals and metals are constantly increasing, thus necessitating enhanced and efficient mining and metallurgical activities. However, these sectors have been historically associated with concerns regarding their potentially adverse health and environmental (water/air/soil) impacts. Therefore, reducing the environmental footprint of mining and metallurgical activities is a key priority. Green mining has been defined and developed to reduce the environmental impacts associated with mineral processing and extractive metallurgy by adopting new energy-efficient sustainable processing technologies in all stages of the mining life cycle. This new concept of the green mining and metal sectors needs to become more widespread and to be discussed among the industry in order to mitigate any environmental problems and achieve a sustainable future for the field. This Special Issue focuses on such green sustainable metal production. All research and practical works concerning the following pillars of green mining are more than welcome:
- Sustainable hydrometallurgy;
- Solvometallurgy;
- Supercritical fluid metal extraction;
- Valorization of mining and metallurgical residues (waste and byproducts);
- Zero liquid/solid discharge processing;
- Development of environmentally friendly and energy-efficient technologies for metal extraction from natural and secondary resources.
Dr. Dariush Azizi
Prof. Dr. Georgios Kolliopoulos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Green mining
- Sustainable hydrometallurgy
- Solvometallurgy
- Supercritical fluid metal extraction
- Mineral processing
- Waste valorization
- Zero liquid/solid discharge
- Sustainable mining water management
- Sustainable processing
- Zero waste extractive metallurgy
