A new paper, entitled ‘Metagenomic exploration of multi-resistance genes linked to microbial attributes in active nonferrous metal(loid) tailings’, has been published in Environmental Pollution. The paper was written by Jian-li Liu from the China University of Geosciences and seven co-authors (including… Continue Reading
Noshin Masood, a visiting PhD student with EM3 in 2019, has published a paper in the Journal of Sustainable Mining with Karen Hudson-Edwards on the impacts of coal mining on water resource development. You can read it for free here.
Nine competitors for our 2nd Annual EM3 Big Christmas online Quiz today! The winner (Jody) will receive her chocolates early in 2021. Merry Christmas everyone. 🙂
A geoenergy renaissance is required for a low carbon economy and energy security of supply. Geoenergy systems that have been proposed include disused coal workings for district heating (see image below, https://www.ukgeos.ac.uk/) granites for geothermal electricity and combined energy and… Continue Reading
The NEMO video describing what we are doing in the project has been launched. There is a short version and a long version. Watch it to know more this initiative studying how to reduce mine waste, transforming a “problem” into… Continue Reading
Carmen Falagan, David Dew and Karen Hudson-Edwards are co-authors on the newly published paper ‘Bioleaching to reprocess sulfidic polymetallic primary mining residues: Determination of metal leaching mechanisms’ that is published open access in Hydrometallurgy. This is the first paper for… Continue Reading
Karen Hudson-Edwards has a new publication in Science of the Total Environment with her Chinese colleagues Wenxu Li and Jing Liu, entitled ‘Seasonable variations in arsenic mobility and bacterial diversity: The case study of Huangshui Creek, Shimen Realgar Mine, Hunan… Continue Reading
This September we welcome three new members to EM3. Dr Patrizia Onnis is joining us as a post-doctoral fellow on our NERC Legacy Wastes in the Coastal Zone project. Elin Jennings is starting her PhD on the same project. Lisa… Continue Reading
The first paper for our NERC Legacy Wastes in the Coastal Zone project, ‘Legacy iron and steel wastes in the UK: Extent, resource potential, and management futures’ is out in the Journal of Geochemical Exploration. It is full open access… Continue Reading
Rich Crane and colleagues from the EM3 Research Group and the University of Western Australia are currently investigating how we can apply novel methods to inject acids into the subsurface and then precisely control their movement using an electric field… Continue Reading