Treatment of small scale gold mining wastewater using pilot-scale sedimentation and Cocopeat filter bed system

J. Samaniego; M.A.N. Tanchuling

Volume 5, Issue 4 , October 2019, , Pages 461-470

https://doi.org/10.22034/GJESM.2019.04.06

Abstract
  The use of amalgamation process to recover gold from mined ores by the small-scale gold miners in the Philippines and other developing countries produces and dispose of untreated wastewater to the receiving water bodies. In this study, a field-scale filter bed system was constructed to treat heavy metal ...  Read More

Environmental qualitative assessment of rivers sediments

A.R. Karbassi; M. Pazoki

Volume 1, Issue 2 , April 2015, , Pages 109-116

https://doi.org/10.7508/gjesm.2015.02.002

Abstract
  In this study, the concentrations of heavy metals (Ca, Zn, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni) in thesediment of Shavoor River in Khuzestan Province in Iran has been investigated. After the library studies and field studies, six samples of water and sediment were taken from the river in order to evaluate heavy metal pollution ...  Read More