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Agromining: Farming for Metals - Extracting Unconventional Resources Using Plants (Paperback, 2nd ed. 2021)
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Agromining: Farming for Metals - Extracting Unconventional Resources Using Plants (Paperback, 2nd ed. 2021)
Series: Mineral Resource Reviews
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This second and expanded edition of the first book on agromining
(phytomining) presents a comprehensive overview of the metal
farming & recovery of the agromining production chain.
Agromining is an emerging technology that aims to transform the
extraction of sources of target elements not accessible by
traditional mining and processing techniques. Agromining, which is
based on sustainable development, uses hyperaccumulator plants as
'metal crops' farmed on sub-economic soils or minerals wastes to
obtain valuable target elements. This volume is edited and authored
by the pioneers in the rapidly expanding field of agromining and
presents the latest insights and developments in the field. This
book provides in-depth information on the global distribution and
ecology of hyperaccumulator plants, their biogeochemical pathways,
the influence of rhizosphere microbes, the physiology and molecular
biology of hyperaccumulation, as well as aspects of propagation and
conservation of these unusual plants. It describes the agronomy of
metal crops and opportunities for incorporating agromining into
rehabilitation and mine closure, including test cases for
agromining of nickel, cobalt, manganese, arsenic, selenium,
cadmium, zinc, thallium, rare earth elements and platinum group
elements. Since the first edition was published, there have
successful nickel agromining field trials in the tropics (in
Malaysia and Guatemala), and these are presented in a dedicated
case study chapter. Other new chapters focus on the processing of
bio-ore for elements other than nickel, such as rare earth elements
and cadmium, and on agromining from industrial wastes such as
tailings, and industrial by-products and sites. Furthermore, the
book features two new chapters that provide a comprehensive
assessment of accumulation a very wide range elements from the
Periodic Table in various plant species around the globe, and a
chapter on practical methods for discovery of hyperaccumulator
plant species in the field and in the herbarium. This book is of
interest to environmental professionals in the minerals industry,
government regulators, and academics.
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