Acid Mine Drainage
Waste Laws
Waste
Dispose of Wastes
General Mining
100
The ore that dissolves in water to lead to Acid Mine Drainage
What is Pyrite
100
Designed landfills and "cradle-to-grave" tracking
What is RCRA
100
3 Different types of waste
What is Air, Liquid and Solid
100
Primary things done to dispose of wastes
What is Landfills, Incineration, Recycle, Reuse and Reduce
100
a concentration of naturally occurring material in or on the earth’s crust that can be extracted & processed into useful materials at an affordable cost
What is Mineral Resource
200
When Acid Mine Drainage reaches the surface it reacts with ____ to lead to the pH becoming more neutral
What is Oxygen
200
Provided a Federal "Superfund" to clean up abandoned hazardous wastes sites.
What is CERCLA
200
Most common form of solid waste
What is mining and oil production
200
What are three advantages of landfills
What is Cheap, Easy, No burning, Little odor ,Can be built quickly, Can handle lots of waste, Once filled can be used for parks, etc., No shortage of sites available in some areas, Generate electricity from methane
200
Waste material mix
What is Gangue
300
This form of iron is insoluble in water and precipitates out resulting in a dark gloomy water.
What is Fe3+
300
Reauthorized CERCLA to cleanup around the country.
What is SARA
300
Most common municipal solid waste
What is paper
300
What are three disadvantages of landfills
What is noise traffic, dust, methyl mercury, release of methane, groundwater contamination, and NIMBY
300
Nonrenewable Minerals
What is Fe, Cu, Al, Salt, Clay, Sand, Coal, Oil, Natural Gas
400
Two environmental impacts of Acid Mine Drainage
What is toxic metals to fish, pH can be out of range for specialist species, Iron precipitates can clog fish gills
400
Law designed to help local communities protect public health issues.
What is EPCRA
400
What percent of Municipal Solid Waste is accounted for in total waste
What is 1.5%
400
What are some advantages to incineration
What is use less space, and generate heat
400
What are the two types of mining
What is Surface and subsurface
500
Mine that contains metal sulphides and has caused Acid Mine Drainage
What is Britannia
500
Regulates the standards of all the waste laws.
What is EPA
500
Contains one or more of 39 toxic, carcinogenic, mutagenic, or teratogenic compounds at levels that exceed established limits
What is Hazardous wastes
500
Disadvantages of incineration
What is release of NOx SOx and CO2, Hg and Pb, makes the problem and air problem, GCC
500
Open-pit mining, Dredging, Area strip mining, Contour strip mining, Mountaintop removal
What is Types of Surface mining
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