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7 - Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences
University of Exeter
Fertilizer Amendment of Mining-Impacted Soils from Broken Hill, Australia: Fixation or Release of Contaminants?
The remediation of metal-contaminated mine soils traditionally relies on the physical removal of the contaminated soil by earth moving equipment. This causes large-scale disturbances of soils and ecosystems and necessitates further land restoration. Phosphate stabilisation has been put forward as a new treatment technology to remediate contaminated soils in situ (e.g. US EPA; http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncer_abstracts/index.cfm/fuseaction/display.abstractDetail/abstract/1335/). However, this study demonstrates that such a technology is inappropriate for the remediation of many contaminated mine sites.