Environmental Indicators in Metal Mining

This book represents an important new contribution to the literature that presents practical and comprehensive solutions to mining activities. Its timely content has been prepared by several experts from around the world and its practical format addresses the major environmental predictive techniques required for the extraction and processing of metal resources. Packed with reviews and case studies, it covers current methods used to forecast environmental effects of metal mining.

Bernd Lottermoser is a professor in Sustainable Resource Extraction and Director of the Institute of Mineral Resources Engineering at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. In his varied career, he has worked in the mining industry and also in research and academic instruction in Australian, British and German universities. He has authored and coauthored over 200 scientific publications and reports in numerous earth science fields.