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Morag Hunter, D. H. Nimalika Perera, Eustace P. G. Barnes, Hugo V. Lepage, Elias Escobedo-Pacheco, Noorhayati Idros, David Arvidsson-Shukur, Peter J. Newton, Luis de los Santos Valladares, Patrick A. Byrne and Crispin H. W. Barnes
The expansion of copper mining on the hyper-arid pacific slope of Southern Peru has precipitated growing concern for scarce water resources in the region. Located in the headwaters of the Torata river, in the department of Moquegua, the Cuajone mine, own...
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Christos Tsabaris, Dionisis L. Patiris, Rosalinda Adams, Julian Castillo, Maria F. Henriquez, Caroline Hurtado, Lesley Munoz, Leonidas Kalpaxis, Mariana Verri, Stylianos Alexakis, Filothei K. Pappa and Angelos Lampousis
In recent years, the environmental effects of both active and legacy mining activity have motivated many research groups worldwide through the use of a variety of methods that have been conducted among diverse environments. In this study, we measured rad...
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Lidriana Pinheiro, Antônio Rodrigues Ximenes Neto, Francisco Assis Aquino Bezerra Filho, Cassia Rosane Silveira Pinto, Laldiane de Souza Pinheiro, Paulo Pessoa, Regimário Lima Filho, Regina Balbino da Silva, Jáder Morais, Adryane Gorayeb, Lorenzo Bramanti and Sergio Rossi
Seascape mapping is critical to understanding ecosystem services and managing areas with potential for fishing, power generation, mining, and tourism. Despite advances in marine geophysics, the necessary equipment to make underwater cartography can be ex...
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Yewei Song, Jie Guo, Fengshan Ma, Jia Liu and Guang Li
Water inrush caused by mining below the seafloor seriously affects the safety and production of mines. Identifying the end element of mine inrush and accurately calculating the mixing ratios of end elements are the basis for a reasonable evaluation of wa...
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W. Charles Kerfoot, Gary Swain, Luis M. Verissimo, Erin Johnston, Carol A. MacLennan, Daniel Schneider and Noel R. Urban
Over a century ago, copper mills on the Keweenaw Peninsula of Lake Superior sluiced 64 million metric tonnes (MMT) of tailings into coastal waters, creating a metal-rich ?halo?. Here we show that relatively small discharges can spread widely in time and ...
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Catalina Vasquez-Carrillo and Kathleen Sullivan Sealey
This paper describes the unique natural communities and biodiversity of the upwelling coastal system along the Guajira peninsula in the southern Caribbean Sea. The Guajira peninsula has a small human population with limited infrastructure and limited opp...
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Yuriko Jocselin Martínez, David Alfaro Siqueiros-Beltrones and Ana Judith Marmolejo-Rodríguez
Studies on marine benthic diatoms in environments contaminated by metals are scarce. The typical structure of benthic diatom assemblages (species richness, diversity, dominance, dominant taxa) from undisturbed environments may be used as reference for co...
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Irene Cinelli, Giorgio Anfuso, Enrico Bartoletti, Lorenzo Rossi and Enzo Pranzini
This paper presents the history and evolution of the different projects carried out from 1999 to 2008 at Cavo beach in the Elba Island, Italy. The village of Cavo almost completely lost its beach in the 1970s due to the reduction of sedimentary input, an...
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Manh Tien Dao, An Thinh Nguyen, The Kien Nguyen, Ha T.T. Pham, Dinh Tien Nguyen, Quoc Toan Tran, Huong Giang Dao, Duyen T. Nguyen, Huong T. Dang and Luc Hens
Environmental conflict management gains significance in rational use of natural resources, ecosystem preservation and environmental planning for mineral mines. In Central Coast Vietnam, titan mines are subject to conflicting use and management decisions....
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Jiang Yu, Qiansheng Zhao and Cheng Siong Chin
The southeastern coast of China suffers many typhoon disasters every year, causing huge casualties and economic losses. In addition, collecting statistics on typhoon disaster situations is hard work for the government. At the same time, near-real-time di...
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