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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).