Contaminants · Other inorganics
Acid mine drainage
An inorganic substance that is not a metal: salts, acids, mineral residues and the like, each behaving in its own way.
- 17 written pages
- 0 sites on the national lists
- 0 species studied
Sites where it is found
Where plants or fungi were tried
Notable case, Andalucía (Sevilla), Spain
Aznalcóllar spill and the Guadiamar Green Corridor
Phytoremediation
Notable case, Chambishi (tra Kitwe e Chingola), Zambia
Chambishi and the Kafue river (Zambian Copperbelt)
Phytoremediation
Notable case, Shangba (Wengyuan County), China
Dabaoshan Mine and Shangba village
Phytoremediation
Notable case, Huanjiang (Hechi), China
Huanjiang (farmland polluted by mine tailings)
Phytoremediation
Notable case, Santa Cruz / Boac / Mogpog, Philippines
Marcopper mine, Marinduque
Phytoremediation
Notable case, Minas de Riotinto, Spain
Río Tinto (Riotinto mining district)
Phytoremediation
Notable case, Picher, Ottawa County, United States
Tar Creek (Picher)
Microbial bioremediation
Notable case, Anhui, China
Tongling copper mine tailings ponds
Phytoremediation
Notable case, Johannesburg, South Africa
Witwatersrand gold tailings and acid mine drainage
Phytoremediation
The other sites with a page
Elsewhere in the world
- Butte (Berkeley Pit and Silver Bow Creek)Montana, United States
- Faro MineYukon, Canada
- Lakes Poopó and Uru Uru (Oruro mining districts)Oruro, Huanuni, Pazña, Bolivia
- Mount Lyell and the Queen and King riversQueenstown, Australia
- Ok Tedi mine and Fly RiverTabubil, Papua New Guinea
- Panguna mineAutonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
- Rum Jungle uranium-copper mineBatchelor, Australia
- Sonora River spill (Buenavista del Cobre mine)Cananea, Mexico