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Acid
An acid is a molecule or ion capable of donating a hydron (proton or hydrogen ion H+), or, alternatively, capable of forming a covalent bond with an electron pair (a Lewis acid).
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Acid sulfate soil
Acid sulfate soils are naturally occurring soils, sediments or organic substrates (e.g. peat) that are formed under waterlogged conditions.
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Acidithiobacillus
Acidithiobacillus is a genus of the Acidithiobacillia in the "Proteobacteria".
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Acidophile
Acidophiles or acidophilic organisms are those that thrive under highly acidic conditions (usually at pH 2.0 or below).
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Acidophiles in acid mine drainage
The outflow of acidic liquids and other pollutants from mines is often catalysed by acid-loving microorganisms; these are the acidophiles in acid mine drainage.
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Aggregate (geology)
In the Earth sciences, aggregrate has three possible meanings.
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Alamosa River
The Alamosa River is a river in the southern part of the U.S. state of Colorado.
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Aluminium
Aluminium or aluminum is a chemical element with symbol Al and atomic number 13.
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American Society of Mining and Reclamation
American Society of Mining and Reclamation (ASMR) is an advisory council which focuses on the reclamation of lands that had been disturbed by coal extraction.
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Anthracite
Anthracite, often referred to as hard coal, is a hard, compact variety of coal that has a submetallic luster.
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Aqueous solution
An aqueous solution is a solution in which the solvent is water.
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Archaea
Archaea (or or) constitute a domain of single-celled microorganisms.
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Argo Tunnel
The Argo Tunnel, originally called the Newhouse Tunnel (after Salt Lake City mining magnate Samuel Newhouse), is a mine drainage and access tunnel with its portal at Idaho Springs, Colorado, USA.
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Arsenic
Arsenic is a chemical element with symbol As and atomic number 33.
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Australasian Law Teachers Association
The Australasian Law Teachers Association (ALTA) is a professional body which represents the interests of law teachers in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific.
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Avoca, County Wicklow
Avoca is a small town near Arklow, in County Wicklow, Ireland.
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Bacteria
Bacteria (common noun bacteria, singular bacterium) is a type of biological cell.
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Berkeley Pit
The Berkeley Pit is a former open pit copper mine located in Butte, Montana, United States.
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Bicarbonate
In inorganic chemistry, bicarbonate (IUPAC-recommended nomenclature: hydrogencarbonate) is an intermediate form in the deprotonation of carbonic acid.
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Bioleaching
Bioleaching is the extraction of metals from their ores through the use of living organisms.
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Bituminous coal
Bituminous coal or black coal is a relatively soft coal containing a tarlike substance called bitumen or asphalt.
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Britannia Beach
Britannia Beach is a small unincorporated community in the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District located approximately 55 kilometers north of Vancouver, British Columbia on the Sea-to-Sky Highway on Howe Sound.
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Brukunga
Brukunga is a small town in the Adelaide Hills, located approximately 40 km east of Adelaide and 4 km north of the town of Nairne.
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Butte, Montana
Butte is a town in, and the county seat of Silver Bow County, Montana, United States.
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Calcium
Calcium is a chemical element with symbol Ca and atomic number 20.
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Calcium oxide
Calcium oxide (CaO), commonly known as quicklime or burnt lime, is a widely used chemical compound.
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Calcium sulfate
Calcium sulfate (or calcium sulphate) is the inorganic compound with the formula CaSO4 and related hydrates.
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Center for Pharmaceutical Research and Innovation
The Center for Pharmaceutical Research and Innovation (CPRI) is a University of Kentucky-based research center established by the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy in 2012 to facilitate academic translational research and drug discovery/drug development.
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Chalcopyrite
Chalcopyrite is a copper iron sulfide mineral that crystallizes in the tetragonal system.
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Clarifier
Clarifiers are settling tanks built with mechanical means for continuous removal of solids being deposited by sedimentation.
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Clark Fork River
The Clark Fork, or the Clark Fork of the Columbia River, is a river in the U.S. states of Montana and Idaho, approximately long.
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Clinch River
The Clinch River rises near Tazewell, Virginia, and flows southwest for more than through the Great Appalachian Valley, gathering various tributaries, including the Powell River, before joining the Tennessee River in Kingston, Tennessee.
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Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.
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Coal Authority
The Coal Authority is a non-departmental public body of the United Kingdom government.
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Coal mining
Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground.
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Coal-mining region
Coal mining regions are significant resource extraction industries in many parts of the world.
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Colorado
Colorado is a state of the United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.
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Constructed wetland
A constructed wetland (CW) is an artificial wetland to treat municipal or industrial wastewater, greywater or stormwater runoff.
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Copper
Copper is a chemical element with symbol Cu (from cuprum) and atomic number 29.
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Copper extraction
Copper extraction refers to the methods used to obtaining copper from its ores.
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Cornwall
Cornwall (Kernow) is a county in South West England in the United Kingdom.
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County Wicklow
County Wicklow (Contae Chill Mhantáin) is a county in Ireland.
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Doñana disaster
The Doñana Disaster, also known as the Aznalcollar Disaster or Guadiamar Disaster (Sp: Desastre de Aznalcóllar, Desastre del Guadiamar), was an industrial accident in Andalusia, southern Spain.
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Ecosystem
An ecosystem is a community made up of living organisms and nonliving components such as air, water, and mineral soil.
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Elizabeth Mine
The Elizabeth Mine was a copper mine located on the town line between the Town of Strafford and the Town of Thetford, in Orange County, Vermont.
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Elliot Lake
Elliot Lake is a city in Algoma District, Ontario, Canada.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Environment Agency
The Environment Agency (EA) is a non-departmental public body, established in 1995 and sponsored by the United Kingdom government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), with responsibilities relating to the protection and enhancement of the environment in England (and until 2013 also Wales).
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Environmental hazard
An environmental hazard is a substance, a state or an event which has the potential to threaten the surrounding natural environment / or adversely affect people's health, including pollution and natural disasters such as storms and earthquakes Any single or combination of toxic chemical, biological, or physical agents in the environment, resulting from human activities or natural processes, that may impact the health of exposed subjects, including pollutants such as heavy metals, pesticides, biological contaminants, toxic waste, industrial and home chemicals.
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Environmental impact of mining
The environmental impact of mining includes erosion, formation of sinkholes, loss of biodiversity, and contamination of soil, groundwater, and surface water by chemicals from mining processes.
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Extremophile
An extremophile (from Latin extremus meaning "extreme" and Greek philiā (φιλία) meaning "love") is an organism that thrives in physically or geochemically extreme conditions that are detrimental to most life on Earth.
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Ferric
Ferric refers to iron-containing materials or compounds.
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Ferrous
In chemistry, ferrous (Fe2+), indicates a divalent iron compound (+2 oxidation state), as opposed to ferric, which indicates a trivalent iron compound (+3 oxidation state).
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Genome
In the fields of molecular biology and genetics, a genome is the genetic material of an organism.
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Grasberg mine
The Grasberg mine is the largest gold mine and the second largest copper mine in the world.
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Guadiamar
The Guadiamar is a river of Andalusia, Spain, and a tributary of the Guadalquivir.
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Gypsum
Gypsum is a soft sulfate mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, with the chemical formula CaSO4·2H2O.
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Hughes bore hole
The Hughes borehole is an acid mine drainage site located near the southwest central borough of Portage, Pennsylvania in Cambria County.
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Hydrogen sulfide
Hydrogen sulfide is the chemical compound with the chemical formula H2S.
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Idaho Springs, Colorado
The City of Idaho Springs is a Statutory City in the western United States, the most populous municipality in Clear Creek County, Colorado.
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In situ water treatment
In situ or direct dosing water treatment involves mixing and dosing chemical reagents directly into the affected water body for the treatment of a number of issues, instead of pumping water for treatment through a water treatment plant.
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Indonesia
Indonesia (or; Indonesian), officially the Republic of Indonesia (Republik Indonesia), is a transcontinental unitary sovereign state located mainly in Southeast Asia, with some territories in Oceania.
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International Mine Water Association
The International Mine Water Association (IMWA) is the first scientific-technical association worldwide dedicated to mine water related topics.
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Interstate 99
Interstate 99 (I-99) is an Interstate Highway with two segments: one located in central Pennsylvania, and the other in southern New York in the United States.
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Ion
An ion is an atom or molecule that has a non-zero net electrical charge (its total number of electrons is not equal to its total number of protons).
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Ion exchange
Ion exchange is an exchange of ions between two electrolytes or between an electrolyte solution and a complex.
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Iron
Iron is a chemical element with symbol Fe (from ferrum) and atomic number 26.
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Iron Mountain Mine
Iron Mountain Mine, also known as the Richmond Mine at Iron Mountain, is a mine near Redding in Northern California, US.
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Iron(III) oxide-hydroxide
A number of chemicals are dubbed iron(III) oxide-hydroxide.
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Kaimai Range
The Kaimai Range (sometimes referred to as the Kaimai Ranges) is a mountain range in the North Island of New Zealand.
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Lackawanna River
The Lackawanna River is a U.S. Geological Survey.
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Lead
Lead is a chemical element with symbol Pb (from the Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82.
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Lime (material)
Lime is a calcium-containing inorganic mineral in which oxides, and hydroxides predominate.
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Limestone
Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs.
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Manganese
Manganese is a chemical element with symbol Mn and atomic number 25.
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McArthur River zinc mine
The McArthur River mine is one of the world's largest zinc, lead and silver mines, situated about 70 kilometres southwest of Borroloola, near the Gulf of Carpentaria in the northeastern Northern Territory, Australia.
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Metal
A metal (from Greek μέταλλον métallon, "mine, quarry, metal") is a material (an element, compound, or alloy) that is typically hard when in solid state, opaque, shiny, and has good electrical and thermal conductivity.
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Metalloid
A metalloid is any chemical element which has properties in between those of metals and nonmetals, or that has a mixture of them.
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Mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually from an orebody, lode, vein, seam, reef or placer deposit.
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Monday Creek
Monday Creek is a tributary of the Hocking River, 27 miles (43.5 km) long, in southeastern Ohio in the United States.
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Mount Morgan Mine
Mount Morgan Mine was a copper, gold and silver mine in Queensland, Australia.
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Neutralization (chemistry)
In chemistry, neutralization or neutralisation (see spelling differences), is a chemical reaction in which an acid and a base react quantitatively with each other.
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Nickel
Nickel is a chemical element with symbol Ni and atomic number 28.
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Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT) is a federal Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia.
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Ok Tedi environmental disaster
The Ok Tedi environmental disaster caused severe harm to the environment along of the Ok Tedi River and the Fly River in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea between about 1984 and 2013.
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Ok Tedi Mine
The Ok Tedi Mine is an open-pit copper and gold mine in Papua New Guinea located near the headwaters of the Ok Tedi River, in the Star Mountains Rural LLG of the North Fly District of the Western Province of Papua New Guinea.
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Ok Tedi River
The Ok Tedi is a river in New Guinea.
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Old Forge, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania
Old Forge is a borough in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Ompompanoosuc River
The Ompompanoosuc River is a river, about 25 mi (40 km) long, in eastern Vermont in the United States.
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Ontario
Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.
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Ore
An ore is an occurrence of rock or sediment that contains sufficient minerals with economically important elements, typically metals, that can be economically extracted from the deposit.
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Overburden
In mining, overburden (also called waste or spoil) is the material that lies above an area that lends itself to economical exploitation, such as the rock, soil, and ecosystem that lies above a coal seam or ore body.
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Oxygen
Oxygen is a chemical element with symbol O and atomic number 8.
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Papua (province)
Papua is the largest and easternmost province of Indonesia, comprising most of Western New Guinea.
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Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (PNG;,; Papua Niugini; Hiri Motu: Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an Oceanian country that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia.
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Passive treatment system
A passive treatment system is a method for removing metals from acid mine drainage.
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvaani or Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.
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PH
In chemistry, pH is a logarithmic scale used to specify the acidity or basicity of an aqueous solution.
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Pit water
Pit water, mine water or mining water is water that collects in a mine and which has to be brought to the surface by water management methods in order to enable the mine to continue working.
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Port Talbot
Port Talbot is a town in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales.
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Powell River (Tennessee River tributary)
The Powell River in the United States rises in southwest Virginia and flows into East Tennessee.
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Pyrite
The mineral pyrite, or iron pyrite, also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS2 (iron(II) disulfide).
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Queensland
Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.
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Redox
Redox (short for reduction–oxidation reaction) (pronunciation: or) is a chemical reaction in which the oxidation states of atoms are changed.
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Rio Grande County, Colorado
Rio Grande County is one of the 64 counties of the U.S. state of Colorado.
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Rio Tinto (river)
The Río Tinto (red river) is a river in southwestern Spain that rises in the Sierra Morena mountains of Andalusia.
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River Afan
The River Afan (Afon Afan) is a river in Wales whose river valley formed the territory of the medieval Lords of Afan.
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San Luis Valley
The San Luis Valley is a region in south-central Colorado with a small portion overlapping into New Mexico.
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Shasta County, California
Shasta County, officially the County of Shasta, is a county in the northern portion of the U.S. state of California.
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South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
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Spoil tip
A spoil tip (also called a spoil bank, boney pile, gob pile, bing, batch, boney dump or pit heap) is a pile built of accumulated spoil – the overburden or other waste rock removed during coal and ore mining.
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State College, Pennsylvania
State College is a home rule municipality in Centre County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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Strafford, Vermont
Strafford is a town in Orange County, Vermont, United States.
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Stratum
In geology and related fields, a stratum (plural: strata) is a layer of sedimentary rock or soil, or igneous rock that were formed at the Earth's surface, with internally consistent characteristics that distinguish it from other layers.
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Stream
A stream is a body of water with surface water flowing within the bed and banks of a channel.
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Sulfate-reducing microorganisms
Sulfate-reducing microorganisms (SRM) or sulfate-reducing prokaryotes (SRP) are a group composed of sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) and sulfate-reducing archaea (SRA), both of which can perform anaerobic respiration utilizing sulfate (SO42–) as terminal electron acceptor, reducing it to hydrogen sulfide (H2S).
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Sulfide
Sulfide (systematically named sulfanediide, and sulfide(2−)) (British English sulphide) is an inorganic anion of sulfur with the chemical formula S2− or a compound containing one or more S2− ions.
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Sulfide minerals
The sulfide minerals are a class of minerals containing sulfide (S2−) as the major anion.
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Summitville mine
The Summitville mine was a gold mining site in the United States, located in Rio Grande County, Colorado south of Del Norte.
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Superfund
Superfund is a United States federal government program designed to fund the cleanup of sites contaminated with hazardous substances and pollutants.
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Tailings
Tailings, also called mine dumps, culm dumps, slimes, tails, refuse, leach residue or slickens, terra-cone (terrikon), are the materials left over after the process of separating the valuable fraction from the uneconomic fraction (gangue) of an ore.
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Tasmania
Tasmania (abbreviated as Tas and known colloquially as Tassie) is an island state of Australia.
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Te Aroha
Te Aroha is a rural town in the Waikato region of New Zealand with a population of 3,906 people in the 2013 census, an increase of 138 people since 2006.
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Tennessee
Tennessee (translit) is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States.
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The Scranton Times-Tribune
The Scranton Times-Tribune is a morning newspaper serving the Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S. area.
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Tui mine
The Tui mine is an abandoned mine on the western slopes of Mount Te Aroha in the Kaimai Range of New Zealand.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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Victoria University, Australia
Victoria University (VU) is an Australian public university based in Melbourne, Victoria.
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Virginia
Virginia (officially the Commonwealth of Virginia) is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States located between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.
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Wales
Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.
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Water table
The water table is the upper surface of the zone of saturation.
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West Coast Tasmania Mines
The mines of the West Coast of Tasmania have a rich historical heritage as well as an important mineralogical value in containing or having had found, specimens of rare and unusual minerals.
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West Rand
West Rand is the name of the urban western part of the Witwatersrand that is functionally merged with the Johannesburg conurbation.
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West Virginia
West Virginia is a state located in the Appalachian region of the Southern United States.
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Wheal Jane
Wheal Jane is a disused tin mine near Baldhu and Chacewater in West Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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Witwatersrand
The Witwatersrand (locally the Rand or, less commonly, the Reef) is a, north-facing scarp in South Africa.
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Zinc
Zinc is a chemical element with symbol Zn and atomic number 30.
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2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill
The 2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill was an environmental disaster that began at the Gold King Mine near Silverton, Colorado, when Environmental Protection Agency personnel, along with workers for Environmental Restoration LLC (a Missouri company under EPA contract to mitigate pollutants from the closed mine), caused the release of toxic waste water into the Animas River watershed.
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References
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