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Communications Earth & EnvironmentSome communities endure environmental hazards from abandoned mines and job loss from the energy transition away from coal. Recent US legislation provides a historic appropriation for abandoned mine hazards like the acidic water that often drains from ...
Katie Jo Black, Jeremy G. Weber
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Distribution of heavy metals polluting the soil near an abandoned mine in Northwestern Mexico [PDF]
, 2022 Abandoned mine wastes pollute the soil in their vicinities and threaten the health of livestock and human beings. This is the situation around San Felipe de Jesús in northwestern Mexico.
Webster, R. +4 more
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Applied Sciences, 2023 An abandoned gypsum mine has been discovered beneath the route of a highway construction in Hunan province, south China. Due to the highway construction and operations safety, there is an urgent need for a comprehensive stability analysis of the ...
Yungang Shi +5 more
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Research status and development trend of compressed air energy storage in abandoned coal mines
Meitan kexue jishu, 2023 Compressed air energy storage (CAES) has the advantages of low construction cost, small equipment footprint, long storage cycle and environmental protection.
Tongbin ZHAO +5 more
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Journal of Degraded and Mining Lands Management, 2021 South Africa has many artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) activities that some are registered and others informal and illegal. This paper presents an overview of ASM operations in the vicinity of abandoned mine sites found in Giyani and Musina areas ...
Sphiwe Emmanuel Mhlongo +1 more
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Application of UAV Photogrammetry on Ecological Restoration of Abandoned Open-pit mines, Northern Anhui Province, China [PDF]
Nature Environment and Pollution Technology, 2022 Mine survey is an important part of the ecological restoration design of an abandoned open-pit mine because it gives precise survey data for mine management.
Hongbao Dai and Jiying Xu
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Towards Topological Exploration of Abandoned Mines [PDF]
Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2006 The need for reliable maps of subterranean spaces too hazardous for humans to occupy has motivated the use of robotic technology as mapping tools. As such, we present a systemic approach to autonomous topological exploration of a mine environment to facilitate the process of mapping.
Aaron Morris +3 more
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Impact of water accumulation in abandoned mines on adjacent production mines
Gong-kuang zidonghua, 2022 The goaf water accumulation of abandoned mine will damage the strength of boundary coal pillar, cause coal pillar failure, and pose a threat to the safety of adjacent production mine.
HAO Hongjun +5 more
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Autonomous exploration and mapping of abandoned mines [PDF]
IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 2004 This article discusses the software architecture of an autonomous robotic system designed to explore and map abandoned mines. A new set of software tools is presented, enabling robots to acquire maps of unprecedented size and accuracy. On 30 May 2003, the robot "Groundhog" successfully explored and mapped a main corridor of the abandoned Mathies mine ...
S. Thrun +11 more
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Jàmbá, 2019 Abandoned gold mine sites are generally characterised by severe environmental problems and physical hazards. Because of socio-economic problems confronting communities around abandoned mine sites, historic and abandoned gold mines have become hot-spots ...
Sphiwe E. Mhlongo +4 more
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