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This study is about the investigation of socio-economic factors in order to enhance preservation of prominent Basin and Lake Regions. The ongoing joint research and development project in Kucukcekmece Basin, Istanbul, aims to implement an environmental master plan for the region and to establish a coordination department which includes coordination of municipality, government institutions and NGOs each other. In addition, monitoring of the water resources within the basin is an important point of the project. Kucu...

This paper focuses on the potential environmental benefits afforded by use of paste backfill technology when tailings are sulfide-bearing and provides a case study chosen from an underground mine in north-east Turkey in order to illustrate these benefits. Additionally, it includes discussions on different slump values with varying cement contents under 28-day uniaxial compressive strength tests for mine tailings and determines the rheological properties of mine tailings with respect to paste production.

When planning and landscaping areas to be recultivated after the cessation of mining activities in brown coal opencast mine areas, limiting conditions as regards natural space, economy, technical safety and legal regulations must, in particular, be taken into account. The present features of the landscape have been created by human activity throughout centuries and can only be preserved. The preservation of native fauna and flora is to be ensured by a network of biotopes which will include the zone in front of the...

The PHARE Project “Supervision for closing of the Uranium Mines at Eleshnitza and Dospat” foreseen recultivation of tailing pond at hydrometallurgical plant “Zvezda”Eleshnitza, construction of Waste water treatment plant for drainage waters, and construction of depo for domestic wastes in quarry to mine “Dospat” – Barutin. The radiation protection during the rehabilitation engineering works is carry out in accordance with Inception Report present by Supervisor; the actual standard document; the permi...

In accordance with Tender conditions of Phare Project BG 9904-03-01-01 “Supervision for Closing of the Uranium Mines at Eleshnitza and Dospat” and Inception Report the Radiation Protection Program of the Supervisor are foreseen planning and carrying out of preliminary radioecological monitoring (“zero” monitoring). The goal of this monitoring is receiving of information before the starting of the project for comparison of the effect of improving after the realization of the planed activities. Around the tw...

Clinker waste heaps in the vicinity of KCM smelter, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, expected to be relatively insoluble, and hence inactive according to the environment, were found to be affected by burning of spontaneously ignited carbonaceous material contained in it. This way the waste heap represents an active chemical reactor. The investigation revealed that the process turns the chemically resistant glassy phases into water soluble compounds, abundantly found close to gas and vapour exhalations through deep cracks in the...