Challenges in the characterization and prediction of the hydrogeology and geochemistry of mined ground / P.L. Younger and N.S. Robins -- The effects of longwall coal mining on overlying aquifers / C.J. Booth -- Mine water tracing / C. Wolkersdorfer -- The monitoring and modelling of mine water recovery in UK coalfields / K.R. Whitworth -- Effects of longwall mining in the Selby Coalfield on the piezometry and aquifer properties of the overlying Sherwood Sandstone / S. Dumpleton -- A physically based model of rebound in South Crofty tin mine, Cornwall / R. Adams and P.L. Younger -- Coalfield closure and environmental consequence -- the case in south Nottinghamshire / N.S. Robins, S. Dumpleton and J. Walker -- Depressurization of the north wall at the Escondida Copper Mine, Chile / P. McKelvey, G. Beale, A. Taylor, S. Mansell, B. Mira, C. Valdivia and W. Hitchcock -- Hydrogeological framework for assessing the possible environmental impacts of large-scale gold mines / J.S. Kuma, P.L. Younger and R.J. Bowell -- Predicting mineral weathering rates at field scale for mine water risk assessment / S.A. Banwart, K.A. Evans and S. Croxford -- The hydrogeochemical dynamics of mine pit takes / R.J. Bowell -- Modelling the oxidation of sulphides in an unsaturated soil / M.W. Saaltink, C. Domenech, C. Ayora and J. Carrera -- Laboratory and numerical modelling studies of iron release from a spoil heap in County Durham / C.J. Gandy and K.A. Evans -- Contaminant source characterization of the San Jose Mine, Oruro, Bolivia / D. Banks, W. Holden, E. Aguilar, C. Mendez, D. Koller, Z. Andia, J. Rodriguez, O.M. Saether, A. Torrico, R. Veneros and J. Flores -- Secondary minerals in the abandoned mines of Nenthead, Cumbria as sinks for pollutant metals / C.A. Nuttall and P.L. Younger -- The importance of pyritic roof strata in aquatic pollutant release from abandoned mines in a major, oolitic, berthierine-chamosite-siderite iron ore field, Cleveland, UK / P.L. Younger -- Arsenic removal by oxidizing bacteria in a heavily arsenic-contaminated acid mine drainage system (Carnoules, France) / M. Leblanc, C. Casiot, F. Elbaz-Poulichet and C. Personne -- Fingerprinting mine water in the eastern sector of the South Wales Coalfield / M.M.E. Brown, A.L. Jones, K.G. Leighfield and S.J. Cox -- Alkaline mine drainage from metal sulphide and coal mines: examples from Svalbard and Siberia / D. Banks, V.P. Parnachev, B. Frengstad, W. Holden, A.A. Vedernikov and O.V. Kannachuk -- Assessment, prediction and management of long-term post-closure water quality: a case study-Hlobane Colliery, South Africa / R.P. Hattingh, W. Pulles, R. Krantz, C. Pretorius and S. Swart -- Integrated hydraulic-hydrogeochemical assessment of flooded deep mine voids by test pumping at the Deerplay (Lancashire) and Frances (Fife) Collieries / C.A. Nuttall, R. Adams and P.L. Younger -- Hydrogeological and geochemical interactions of adjoining mercury and coal mine spoil heaps in the Morgao catchment (Mieres, NW Spain) / J. Loredo, A. Ordonez and F. Pendas -- Structural influence on plume migration from a tailings dam in the West Rand, Republic of South Africa / I. Neumann and K. Sami -- Hydrogeological and geochemical consequences of the abandonment of Frazer's Grove carbonate-hosted Pb/Zn fluorspar mine, north Pennines, UK / K.L. Johnson and P.L. Younger -- Paradise lost? Assessment of liabilities at a Uranium mine in the Slovak Republic: Novoveska Huta / D. Holton, M. Kelly and A. Baker -- Influence of mine hydrogeology on mine water discharge chemistry / S.B. Rees, R.J. Bowell and I. Wiseman.