The book comprises selected critical reviews and specific case-studies dealing with environmental fallouts of mining, mineral-processing and mineral-based industries and possible remedial measures aimed at recuperation and preservation of the surrounding environment in the Indian context. The subject has received considerable attention in recent years in the wake of unprecedented growth and expansion of mining and mineral-based industries and increasing public apprehensions regarding its or reversible impacts on the ecology, environment and the socio-economic, traditional and cultural fabric of the populace in the affected regions. In-depth discussions on this subject had constituted the main theme of a national symposium organized by Indian School of Mines – the premier institution of Mining and Mineral Sciences in the country – on the occasion of its Diamond Jubilee celebrations. The volume comprises selected contributions made to this symposium by distinguished geo-scientists, mining and mineral engineers and few invited papers by eminent authorities of the subject in the country. The volume concludes with the recommendations of the symposium, aptly summarizing the outcome of its prolonged deliberations.
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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