The rapid expansion of the mining industry in the wake of liberalisation and globalisation of economy and attendant mineral policy changes has, in the recent years, brought into sharp focus the stringent need for undertaking environmental management measures as integral part of mine-planning and mining at all stages of operations. This book is for the growing number of people who seek to learn, update and practise the mineral development alongwith the protection of the mining environment in the light of the above-stated realisation. The book is a collection of 45 selected, original, highly informative research papers, review articles and case-studies on the environmental aspects of mineral development, underground as well as opencast mining, mineral beneficiation and utilisation, EIA and environmental management including land reclamation, waste disposal and utilisation. They were presented at the international conference on ‘Mineral Development and Environment’ organised by Indian School of Mines at Dhanbad during November 28-30, 1991. It is hoped that the book will be useful to the geoscientists and engineers serving the mineral and mining industries, research, academic and consultancy organisations, regulatory authorities, and the students of mining environmental science and engineering.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR K.L. Rai
Dr. K.L. Rai is the Professor of Applied Geology at Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad. India’s leading technical University in the field of mining and mineral sciences. He has been has been associated with the mineral industry for over three decades now, rendering valuable services for the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge in the specialised fields of economic geology, mining geology, mineral exploration and mineral economics. After a distinguished and highly meritorious career of his University education. Dr. Rai served as a mining geologist of a reputed manganese and coal mining organization of Central India from 1961 to 1964 and thereafter as a University teacher and research scientist in various positions in India (at Indian School of Mines) and abroad. As a NORAD Research Scientist at University of Oslo, Norway from 1969 to 1971, he specialized in ore-geology and sulphide geo-chemistry. In 1976 he was awarded the prestigious ISM Golden Jubilee Research Award. From 1980 to 1986, he accomplished a prestigious assignment on deputation from the Govt. of India as Professor of Mining Geology at University of Constantine in Algeria under Indo-Algerian S&T Cooperation Agreement. He has, to his credit, over 75 research publications including a research monograph, apart from the guidance of a dozen Ph.D. and over 40 M.Phil/M.Tech – level research programmes in Indian and foreign Universities.
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