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The mineralogy of waste and waste disposal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

M. E. Hodson  and
A. Bloodworth
M. E. Hodson*
Affiliation:
Department of Soil Science, Whiteknights, University of Reading, Berks RG6 6DW, UK
A. Bloodworth
Affiliation:
British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham NH2 6FS, UK
*
*E-mail: m.e.hodson@reading.ac.uk
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Extract

Mineralogy has many applications in the business of waste and waste disposal:

  1. • precipitation of minerals and adsorption of elements and compounds to mineral surfaces can serve to immobilize pollutants or concentrate them for recycling

  2. • release of elements and compounds can occur by the converse processes of dissolution and desorption

  3. • minerals can act as impermeable barriers between pollutants and the environment

  4. • minerals can be used as analogues to determine the long-term stability of engineered materials used for the encapsulation of waste.

The Applied Mineralogy Group of the Mineralogical Society organized a meeting ‘The mineralogy of waste and waste disposal’ held at the British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham, on 25th September 2000. The meeting attracted members of both the academic (Earth Science, Chemistry and Material Science departments) and industrial communities. A wide variety of papers was presented dealing with such diverse issues as nuclear waste disposal and the recycling of phosphorus from wastewater. Seven of the papers are collected here.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 65 , Issue 5 , October 2001 , pp. 561 - 562
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2001

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