M.A. Sánchez, F. Vergara and S.H. Castro, Eds.
Department of Metallurgical Engineering
ISBN 956-227-158-7 Año 1998 - 487 pages
Contents Vol. I
Plenary Papers • A Cleaner Production (CP) Strategy and Environmental Technology Assessment (EnTA) Tool for
Cleaner Technologies in the Mining Industry: A Look at UNEP IE`s Cleaner Production Programme and EnTA Activities
L.R. Blinker - FRANCE • Acid Mine Drainage Control
A. Kontopoulos - GREECE
• The Main Trends in Investigations and Development of the Processes in the Heavy Non-Ferrous
Metals Metallurgy
A.V. Tarasov - RUSSIA
Acid Mine Drainage Control
• A Review of Test Methods Available for Predicting and Determining Methods to Control Acid and
Toxic Leachate Generation from Mining Activities
S.W. Stogran, L.C.M. Elliot - CANADA
• Hard - Pan Barriers for Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) Containment: Preliminary Results
M.A. Diaz - BRAZIL
• Pyrite Coating to Prevent Acid Mine Drainage
K. Fytas, D. Bordeleau, B. Evangelou - CANADA, USA
• Acidic Drainage Generation Rate on a Pyritic Tailings Sample
F.J. Lozano G., C. Lara, B. A. Ruiz M - MEXICO
Biotechnologies and Biochemical Processes • Biotechnologies for Prevention and Control of Acid Mine Drainage as Applied to Active Operations
and Mine Land Reclamation
V. Rastogi - USA
• Bacterial Leaching of a Chilean Cobalt Arsenic
J. Chamorro, J. Frenay - CHILE, BELGIUM
• Effect of Inert Particulate Solids on Biochemical Activity of Iron - Oxidizing Bacteria
Y. Kawabe, C. Inoue and T. Chida - JAPAN
• Preliminary Study of (Bio)leaching Process for Enargite Bearing Ores and Concentrates
J. Wiertz, S. Espinoza, C. Mendoza, M.A. Ruiz, E. Huenupi, J.M. Casas, B. Escobar - CHILE
• The Effect of Ore Composition on the Speciation of Arsenic in Bacterial Oxidation of Refractory
Goldbearing Arsenical Ores
R.M. Nyashanu, A.J. Monhemius and D.L. Buchanan - UK
• Oxygen Transfer to a Biosystem by Surface Aeration in the Delft Inclined Plate (DIP) Reactor
G. Van Weert, P.C. Fontein - THE NETHERLAND
• Removal of Uranium by Using Microorganisms Isolated from Australian and American
Uranium Deposites
T. Sakaguchi - JAPAN
New Trends in Waste Water Treatment • Water and Wast Water Treatment. New Trends in Mixing Technology
C.A. Sánchez, T.A. Post, P. Kubera - USA
• Case Studies: Wastewater Recycling Systems for the Mining and Smelting Industries
B. Heimbigner, K. Schooley, R. Ludlum - USA
• Biomass Inmovilization: Contribution to the Waste Water Treatment of Mining Processes
M.R. Vieira, A. Santos, M.E.M. Figueira - BRAZIL
• Investigation to Apply Iron Oxidizing Bacteria for a Waste Water Treatment from a Copper
Leaching - Iron Cetementation Process
A. Pérez G, D. Olguin, T. Takeshima, M. Hirai - CHILE, JAPAN
• ABC: Anoxic Biotreatment Cell for Nitrogen Removal from Mining Effluent Waters
M. Reinsel - USA
Treatment of Cyanide Containing Effluents • Ozonation of Cyanide - Containing Effluents: Effect of the Hydrodynamics of the Reactor on the
Ozone Transfer to the Aqueous Phase
F.R. Carrilo, F. Nava, A. Uribe, R. Pérez, C. Lara - MEXICO
• Treatment of Mining Effluents with Hydrogen Peroxide and Caro`s Acid
L. Teixeira - BRAZIL
• Comparative Studies of the Extractive Performance in Free Cyanide Removal by Virgin and
Silver Impregnated Carbon
N.C. Schlettwein and F.W. Petersen - SOUTH AFRICA
Arsenic and Sulphate Ions Removal • Arsenic Stabilization from Acid Solution
J. Pérez, F. Carillo R., F. Juárez I., J. Meza E., B. Huerta O. - MEXICO
• Selective Leaching of Arsenic from Mechanically Activated Enargite P. Baláž, M. Achimovičová, M. Sánchez, SLOVAKIA - CHILE
• Kinetic Study of Arsenic Catalytic Oxidation by Means of the Use of Metallic Copper
A. Robles V., A.E. Serna I., M. Sánchez A. - MEXICO
• Sulfur-Modified Iron (SMI) Process for Arsenic Removal
M. Reinsel - USA
• The Walhalla™ Process for Sulfate Removal
M. Reinsel, M. Stickley - USA
• Kinetics of Sulphate Sorption Processes Onto Gibbside, Goethite and Siderite
M. Panayotova - BULGARIA
Removal of Pollutants by Flotation • Flotation Applied to Effluent Treatment
J. Rubio - BRAZIL
• Metalic Ions Separation and Recovery from Mining Aqueous System by Flotation (DAF) Using
Alkylhydroxamic Collectors
L. Stoica, A. Meghea, C. Constantin - ROMANIA
• Palladium Separation from Aqueous System by Dissolved Air Flotation and its Recovered as
Oxide or Metal
L. Stoica, A. Razvan - ROMANIA
• Microorganisms and Flotation
P. Solozhenkin, V. Nebera - RUSSIA
• Flotoflocculation of Coal by the Application of Rhodotorula Glutinis
P. Fecko, I. Zelingerová, M. Drobik - CZECH REP.
Drying Improvements • Clean Technology for Copper Concentrate Drying
C. Cuadra, T. Moya, C. Sagedahl, H. Bronlund - CHILE, NORWAY
• Kumera Steam Dryer
J. Partinen, O. Tiitu, H. Lehtonen - FINLAND
Tailings Dams and Solid Waste Disposal • Environmental Management in Tailings and Solid Waste Disposal
R.K. Singhal and G. Mckenna - CANADA
• The New Tailings Dam for the Mining Plant Elatzite-Copper Ltd., Bulgaria
A. Karadimov, T. Gortchev, D. Soubashki, S. Nikolov - BULGARIA
Optimization and Process Control • Segregation Degree as a Base of Evaluation of Technological Efficiency of Mineral Processing
Processes and of the Quality of its Products
K. St. Sztaba - POLAND
• Simulation: A Case Study in the Economy of Water in Mineral Grinding
C. Lara V., C.J. Reséndiz M. - MEXICO
Authors Index
Contacto
Departamento de Ingeniería Metalúrgica
Universidad de Concepción
Edmundo Larenas 285 Casilla 53-C
Concepción - Chile
Fono 56-41-2204241 Fax 56-41-2243418
e-mail: tpedrero@udec.cl
