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标题：Integrating Industrial Ecology Thinking into the Management of Mining Waste
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作者：Éléonore Lèbre ; Glen Corder
期刊名称：Resources
电子版ISSN：2079-9276
出版年度：2015
卷号：4
期号：4
页码：765-786
DOI：10.3390/resources4040765
语种：English
出版社：MDPI Publishing
摘要：Mining legacies are often dominated by large waste facilities and their associated environmental impacts. The most serious environmental problem associated with mine waste is heavy metals and acid leakage through a phenomenon called acid mine drainage (AMD). Interestingly, the toxicity of this leakage is partly due to the presence of valuable metals in the waste stream as a result of a diversity of factors influencing mining operations. A more preventive and recovery-oriented approach to waste management, integrated into mine planning and operations, could be both economically attractive and environmentally beneficial since it would: mitigate environmental impacts related to mine waste disposal (and consequently reduce the remediation costs); and increase the resource recovery at the mine site level. The authors argue that eco-efficiency and resilience (and the resulting increase in a mine’s lifetime) are both critical—yet overlooked—characteristics of sustainable mining operations. Based on these arguments, this paper proposes a framework to assist with identification of opportunities for improvement and to measure this improvement in terms of its contribution to a mine’s sustainability performance.
关键词：mining; metals; eco-efficiency; resilience; mine waste; sustainable development; Material Flow Analysis; industrial ecology; sustainable resource management mining ; metals ; eco-efficiency ; resilience ; mine waste ; sustainable development ; Material Flow Analysis ; industrial ecology ; sustainable resource management