COAL MINING: RESEARCH, TECHNOLOGY AND SAFETY; NOTICE TO THE READER; CONTENTS; PREFACE; HEAVY METAL CONTAMINATION OF AGRONOMIC CROPS GROWN ON THREE RECLAIMED MINE WASTELANDS IN SOUTH CHINA AND IMPLICATIONS FOR ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; MATERIALS AND METHODS; The Study Site; Sample Collection and Analysis; Pollution Assessment; Bioaccumulation Factor; RESULTS; Heavy Metals in Agronomic Crops; Pollution Assessment of Agronomic Crops; Heavy Metals in Soils and Crop Accumulation; DISCUSSION; Safety of Agronomic Crops Grown on the Reclaimed Mine Wastelands.
2. IMPACT OF COAL MINE WATERS ON THE FRESHWATER ORGANISMS2.1. Diversity Indices and Water Quality Assessment; 2.2. Impact of Coal Mine Waters on Macroinvertebrates in Streams (Rivers); 3. ACID-MINE DRAINAGE AND METALS IN RELATION TO FRESHWATER ORGANISMS; 3.1. What Exactly is Acid Mine Drainage (AMD)?; 3.2. Impact of AMD on Algae and Bryophytes; 3.3. The Biological Consequences of Low Values of pH; 3.4. Impact of AMD on Streams, Sediments and Macroinvertebrates; 3.5. Rivers Contaminated by Metals in Relation to Algae, Macrophytes and Macroinvertebrates.
4. THE EPISODIC AND CHRONIC IMPACT OF COAL MINE WATER ON MACROINVERTEBRATES IN STREAMS5. THE MINING SUBSIDENCE RESERVOIRS OF UPPER SILESIA (SOUTHERN POLAND); 5.1. The Origin of the Mining Subsidence Reservoirs; 5.2. The Physical and Chemical Parameters of Waters; 5.3. The Bottom Sediments; 5.4. The Reclamation of Mining Subsidence Reservoirs; 5.5. The Mining Subsidence Reservoirs as Refuges for the Lives of Multiple Organisms; 6. THE EFFECT OF COAL MINING ON MACROPHYTES; 6.1. Ecological Classification of Macrophytes.
6.2. Coal Mine Heaps, Coal Mine Sedimentation Pools and Mining Subsidence Reservoirs as Habitats for Macrophytes (Upper Silesia, Southern Poland)6.3. Macrophytes Subjected to the Coal Mine Waters; 6.4. Macrophytes in the Coal Mine Water Treatment System; 6.5. Macrophytes in the Assessment of Water Quality in Rivers Impacted by Coal Mine Waters; 7. COAL MINING AREAS AS REFUGES FOR WILDLIFE; 8. CONCLUSION; 9. REFERENCES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS (PAHS) IN COAL PARTICLES ON SEDIMENT QUALITY; ABSTRACT; 1. INTRODUCTION.
Implications for Restoration of Mine WastelandsACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; NOTE ON RHENIUM IN COAL; ABSTRACT; RHENIUM IN COALS OF THE FORMER USSR: UZBEKISTAN, RUSSIA AND UKRAINE; An Estimation of Coal Clarke Value of Re; SPANISH RE-BEARING "LIGNITES"; RHENIUM IN INFILTRATION URANIUM-COAL DEPOSITS; Mode of Reoccurrence in Coal; BEHAVIOR OF RE IN COAL COMBUSTION; DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; COAL MINING: RESEARCH, TECHNOLOGY AND SAFETY; ABSTRACT; 1. COAL MINING AND ITS IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT (UPPER SILESIA, SOUTHERN POLAND).