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A comparative study of soil metal concentrations in Chilean urban parks using four pollution indexes
(2022)
Toxic metal enrichment in urban soils from natural and anthropogenic sources is a public health concern thatchallenges sustainable urban development. Active and legacy mining is likely a major contributor of localizedmetal ...
Mining, Urban Growth, and Agrarian Changes in the Atacama Desert: The Case of the Calama Oasis in Northern Chile
(2021)
Since the mid-twentieth century, Latin American rural territories have undergone significant
transformations. One of the leading causes is the expansion of large-scale operations that
exploit natural resources for world ...
Fechamento de mina e a reabilitação do espaço urbano afetado
(Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisUFMG, 2017-08-21)
The existence of mining activities within urban areas or urban expansion areas is part of the Brazilian reality (from the north to the south of the country). Even though the mining operations can be characterized as long-term ...
Environmental assessment of mercury pollution in urban tailings from gold mining
(Elsevier Inc., 2013)
It is well-known that small-scale artisanal mining is a source of mercury emissions into the environment, mainly from the use of rudimentary technologies that use mercury amalgamation in the extraction process. Mines near ...
The Production of Risk: Mining Extractivism and Urban Risk in Northern Chile. The Case of Copiapó
(2019)
Processes of ‘Neo-liberalisation’ of nature are increasingly defining our relationship with the physical world. This is manifested in mining, linked with global markets of natural resources and a key component of the ...
Urban Mining
(2016)