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TREATMENT OF THE MINE DRAINAGES TO USE FOR AGRICULTURAL, INDUSTRIAL AND DOMESTICS USAGES AS A STRATEGY TO COPE WATER CRISIS, CASE STUDY: IRANIAN MINES
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As the water has a vital role in human life and economic development, its shortage can cause some economical, agricultural, industrial and environmental problems. These problems are more prominent in warm and dry regions. Therefore, in such areas the water resources management as well as the treatment and recycling of the mine drainage have the great importance. In the underground and open pit mines, we usually deal with the huge amounts of the contaminated water. In this research, by considering of the statistics of the consumed water and the produced mine drainages during years of 1381, 1382, 1384 and 1385, it was found that the amount of the mine drainages are approximately equal to 70 percent of the total consumed water by mines. Taking water crisis in Iran into account, particularly in dry regions, the mine drainages treatments and recycling of them can be considered for agricultural, water ecosystems and process water in mining industry as an appropriate strategy in order to counter water crisis in mining industry.
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