Recent Topics on Environmental Contamination Caused by Minerals Containing Arsenic and its Remediation

-Arsenic Dissolution and Stabilization in Mine Tailing Dumps-

Abstract

Many contaminated lands and drainage with arsenic are caused by human activity in the world. In mine industry tailing dumps and old mined sites are main origin to generate acid mine drainage (AMD) containing arsenic. This review describes natural processes of the AMD generation and remediation based on the published 41 papers and reports.