Environmental issues from coal mining and their solutions

Mining Science and Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 215-223

  BIAN, Zhengfu ^a   INYANG, Hilary I ^b   DANIELS, John L ^b,c   OTTO, Frank ^d   STRUTHERS, Sue ^e  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^c National Space Science Foundation   (United States)

^d BOCHUM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^e Skapa Mining Services   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

clean coal mining; management of mining wastes; mine environment; mined land reclamation; reuse of mine gas

Indexed keywords

CLEAN COAL MINING; MINE ENVIRONMENT; MINE GAS; MINED LAND RECLAMATION; MINING WASTE;

AIR QUALITY; BUILDING MATERIALS; COAL; COAL INDUSTRY; COAL RECLAMATION; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; METHANATION; METHANE; MINING; SOLID WASTES; WASTE DISPOSAL;

COAL MINES;

AIR QUALITY; COAL; CONSTRUCTION; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ENERGY; ENVIRONMENTS; MATERIALS; METHANE; MINING; RECLAMATION; SOLID WASTES; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTES;

EID: 77949887119     PISSN: 16745264     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1674-5264(09)60187-3     Document Type: Article

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