Sustainable management and optimization of mining wastes: an integrated multidisciplinary approach

BELARDI, G; SCOTTI, ADALGISA; TRAPASSO, F; GUGLIETTA, D., ; GODEAS, ALICIA M; TEMPESTA, E., ; CAPPAI, G; SILVANI, VANESA A.

Bologna

Conferencia; MINEA Final Conference; 2020

Our economy needs to collect raw materials (RMs) from mining activities and this produces an impressive amount of mining wastes and a number of environmental problems associated with the disposal of them. Nowadays, the advances of the innovative technologies and markets make mining waste sources of valuable minerals/elements, but, in order to exploit them, it is necessary to know accurate information and to develop smart strategies of management and planning. In this framework, we tested an integrated multidisciplinary approach for sustainable management and optimisation of mining wastes. We sampled iron (Fe) and manganese (Mn) wastes produced in Joda West Mine (State of Odisha-India). No significant differences were observed in leaves development and length of aerial parts of Helianthus annuus grown on contaminated and blank soil, suggesting that presence of high contamination levels did not hinder the growth of sunflower plants