Hazardous Waste Site Remediation with Borehole Mining Technology

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• Personal Author:
  Miller AL ; Savanick, George A.
• Description:
  The Bureau of Mines has developed borehole mining equipment. This equipment has potential applications in environmental remediation and is especially suited for removing hazardous waste buried in situations where conventional excavation is not possible such as in urban areas. The method is selective and can extract deposits that are small or erratically distributed. This selectivity allows the volume of interest to be extracted without disturbing the surrounding rock or the overburden. Borehole mining has been proposed as a method for removing dense, nonaqueous phase liquids (DNAPLS) which have leaked into soils. DNAPLS cannot be removed by pumping of the groundwater and must be physically removed in order to remediate the groundwater. The borehole miner can also be used to backfill the mined out caverns to minimize subsidence or to emplace materials for controlling the flow of groundwater or modifying its chemistry. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Environmental Exposure Environmental Health Environmental Monitoring Environmental Pollution Hazardous Substances Mining Occupational Health Safety Waste Management
• Keywords:
  Environmental-contamination Environmental-control-equipment Environmental-factors Environmental-hazards Environmental-pollution Hazardous-materials Hazardous-waste-cleanup Liquid-wastes Mining-equipment Mining-industry Waste-treatment

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• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Publisher:
  U.S. Bureau of Mines
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings ; Abstract
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; Minnesota ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  TCRC - Twin Cities Research Center
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  44
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20024918
• Citation:
  Abstract Book, U.S. Department of the Interior Conference on the Environment and Safety, April 24-28, 1995. Washington, DC: U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1995 Apr; :44
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1995
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  U.S. Bureau of Mines
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:aa368aa0add59b5b415b8940a99ebbf0ce2e91b730102bc44100019752f732a062d438d6b59d52f536802d67676900727ab85c318f9b3a1d01e6fa665cd20500
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/220865/cdc_220865_DS1.pdf
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