Mining

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • CoNaMad-Cohorte de Nacimiento de Madre de Dios /Madre de Dios Birth Cohort to Study Effects of in-utero Trace Metals Exposure in the Southern Peruvian Amazon. 
  • A call for deep-ocean stewardship. 
  • A framework for evaluating the accessibility of raw materials from end-of-life products and the Earth's crust. 
  • A population-based mercury exposure assessment near an artisanal and small-scale gold mining site in the Peruvian Amazon. 
  • A review on the importance of metals and metalloids in atmospheric dust and aerosol from mining operations. 
  • Air Pollution and Health - A Science-Policy Initiative. 
  • Amazon forests capture high levels of atmospheric mercury pollution from artisanal gold mining. 
  • Artificial lake expansion amplifies mercury pollution from gold mining. 
  • Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas. 
  • Challenges and opportunities for managing aquatic mercury pollution in altered landscapes. 
  • Chemistry of surface water, precipitation, throughfall, leaves, sediment, soil, and air near a gold mining region in Peru. 
  • Cold provocation testing and hand-arm vibration syndrome--an audit of the results of the Department of Trade and Industry for the evaluation of miners (Br J Surg 2003; 90: 1076-1079). 
  • Cold provocation testing and hand-arm vibration syndrome--an audit of the results of the Department of Trade and Industry for the evaluation of miners (Br J Surg 2003; 90: 1076-1079). 
  • Consistent declines in aquatic biodiversity across diverse domains of life in rivers impacted by surface coal mining. 
  • Deforestation Due to Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Exacerbates Soil and Mercury Mobilization in Madre de Dios, Peru. 
  • Discussion paper: asbestos fiber exposures in a hard rock gold mine. 
  • Effect of solution chemistry on filtration performances and fouling potential of membrane processes for rare earth element recovery from red mud. 
  • Efficacy of Hair Total Mercury Content as a Biomarker of Methylmercury Exposure to Communities in the Area of Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Madre de Dios, Peru. 
  • Estimations of historical atmospheric mercury concentrations from mercury refining and present-day soil concentrations of total mercury in Huancavelica, Peru. 
  • Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon: global prices, deforestation, and mercury imports. 
  • Hair Mercury Level is Associated with Anemia and Micronutrient Status in Children Living Near Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in the Peruvian Amazon. 
  • Impact of extractive industries on malaria prevalence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a population-based cross-sectional study. 
  • Impacts of anthropogenic disturbances at deep-sea hydrothermal vent ecosystems: a review. 
  • In urban, but not rural, areas of Madre de Dios, Peru, adoption of a Western diet is inversely associated with selenium intake. 
  • Isotopic imprints of mountaintop mining contaminants. 
  • Letter to the editor: "Comparing milled fiber, Quebec ore, and textile factory dust: has another piece of the asbestos puzzle fallen into place?" by D. Wayne Berman. 
  • Lung cancer in Florida. Risks associated with residence in the central Florida phosphate mining region. 
  • Mercury Exposure and Poor Nutritional Status Reduce Response to Six Expanded Program on Immunization Vaccines in Children: An Observational Cohort Study of Communities Affected by Gold Mining in the Peruvian Amazon. 
  • Mortality patterns among hard rock gold miners exposed to an asbestiform mineral. 
  • Mortality patterns among miners and millers of non-asbestiform talc: preliminary report. 
  • Multiple stressors in the Sacramento River watershed. 
  • Occupational exposure to talc containing asbestos. 
  • Population-based dietary exposure to mercury through fish consumption in the Southern Peruvian Amazon. 
  • Predictors of mitochondrial DNA copy number and damage in a mercury-exposed rural Peruvian population near artisanal and small-scale gold mining: An exploratory study. 
  • Process optimization for acidic leaching of rare earth elements (REE) from waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). 
  • Radium and barium removal through blending hydraulic fracturing fluids with acid mine drainage. 
  • River transport of mercury from artisanal and small-scale gold mining and risks for dietary mercury exposure in Madre de Dios, Peru. 
  • Scientists appeal to Quebec Premier Charest to stop exporting asbestos to the developing world. 
  • Shale gas extraction in North Carolina: research recommendations and public health implications. 
  • Spatial, Temporal, and Dietary Variables Associated with Elevated Mercury Exposure in Peruvian Riverine Communities Upstream and Downstream of Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining. 
  • The toxicity of Upstate New York talc. 
  • Tighten regulations on deep-sea mining. 
  • Under-mining health: environmental justice and mining in India. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Halabi, Susan, Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Hsu-Kim, Heileen, Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Poulsen, John, Associate Professor of Tropical Ecology, Environmental Sciences and Policy