• Effects of estuarine water mixing on the mobility of trace elements in acid mine drainage leachates 

  Pérez López, Rafael; Millán Becerro, Ricardo; Basallote Sánchez, María Dolores; Carrero Romero, Sergio; Parviainen, Annika; Freydier, Rémi; Macías Suárez, Francisco; Ruiz Cánovas, Carlos (Elsevier, 2023)

  This research reports the effects of pH increase on contaminant mobility in acid mine drainage from the Iberian Pyrite Belt by seawater mixing in the laboratory, simulating the processes occurring in the Estuary of Huelva ...

  

• Thallium in environmental compartments affected by acid mine drainage (AMD) from the Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB): From rocks to the ocean 

  Ruiz Cánovas, Carlos; Basallote Sánchez, María Dolores; Macías Suárez, Francisco; Olías Álvarez, Manuel; Pérez López, Rafael; Nieto Liñán, José Miguel (Elsevier, 2022)

  This works investigates the origin, behavior and fate of Tl in acid mine drainage (AMD) affected areas at catchment scale, following the path from rocks to the ocean. To address this issue, comprehensive data set of Tl in ...

  

• InSAR-based mapping of ground deformation caused by industrial waste disposals: the case study of the Huelva phosphogypsum stack, SW Spain 

  González Barrionuevo, Felipe (Springer, 2022)

  Close to the city of Huelva, SW Spain, and near the Atlantic Ocean, there is a phosphogypsum (PG) stack that accumulates 100 Mt of wastes and extends over 1000 ha. The stack lies directly over estuarine unconsolidated ...

  

• Impact of the SARS-CoV-2 lockdown measures in Southern Spain on PM10 trace element and gaseous pollutant concentrations 

  Millán Martínez, María; Sánchez-Rodas Navarro, Daniel Alejandro; Sánchez de la Campa Verdona, Ana María; Rosa Díaz, Jesús de la (Elsevier, 2022)

  Trace element concentrations within PM10, gaseous pollutants (NO2 and SO2), and PM10 levels were studied during the Covid-19 lockdown at a regional level in Southern Spain (Andalusia). Pollutant concentrations were compared ...

  

• Potential release and bioaccessibility of metal/loids from mine wastes deposited in historical abandoned sulfide mines 

  Ruiz Cánovas, Carlos; Quispe Guzmán, Dino Lucio; Macías Suárez, Francisco; Callejón Leblic, María Belén; Arias Borrego, Ana; García Barrera, Tamara; Nieto Liñán, José Miguel (Elsevier, 2022)

  This study deals with the potential release of metal/loids from sulfide mine wastes upon weathering and the health risks associated with their accidental ingestion. To address this, a complete chemical and mineralogical ...

  

• Environmental management and potential valorization of wastes generated in passive treatments of fertilizer industry effluents 

  Millán Becerro, Ricardo; Macías Suárez, Francisco; Ruiz Cánovas, Carlos; Pérez López, Rafael; Fuentes López, José María (Elsevier, 2022-05)

  A phosphogypsum stack located in SW Spain releases highly acidic and contaminated leachates to the surrounding estuarine environment. Column experiments, based on a mixture of an alkaline reagent (i.e., MgO or Ca(OH)2) ...

  

• Thallium distribution in an estuary affected by acid mine drainage (AMD): The Ría de Huelva estuary (SW Spain) 

  Ruiz Cánovas, Carlos; Basallote Sánchez, María Dolores; Macías Suárez, Francisco; Freydier, Rèmi; Parviainen, Annika; Pérez López, Rafael (Elsevier, 2022)

  This study investigates the behavior of Tl in the Ría de Huelva (SW Spain), one of the most metal polluted estuaries in the world. Dissolved Tl concentration displayed a general decrease across the estuary during the dry ...

  

• Comparison of UAS and Sentinel-2 Multispectral Imagery for Water Quality Monitoring: A Case Study for Acid Mine Drainage Affected Areas (SW Spain) 

  Isgró, Melisa A.; Basallote Sánchez, María Dolores; Caballero, Isabel; Barbero, Luis (MDPI, 2022-08)

  Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) and satellites are used for monitoring and assessing the quality of surface waters. Combining both sensors in a joint tool may scale local water quality retrieval models to regional and global ...

  

• Using UAV and Structure-From-Motion Photogrammetry for the Detection of Boulder Movement by Storms on a Rocky Shore Platform in Laghdira, Northwest Morocco 

  Sedrati, Mouncef; Morales González, Juan Antonio; El M’rini, Abdelmounim; Anthony, Edward J.; Bulot, Glen; Gall, Romain Le; Tadibaght, Abdelkarim (MDPI, 2022-08)

  The detachment and mobilization of boulders from rocky shore platforms by waves involves complex geomorphic and hydrodynamic processes. Understanding these processes requires precise information on the rates and patterns ...

  

• Stream-pit lake interactions in an abandoned mining area affected by acid drainage 

  Fuentes López, José María; Olías Álvarez, Manuel; León, Rafael; Basallote Sánchez, María Dolores; Macías Suárez, Francisco; Moreno González, Raúl; Ruiz Cánovas, Carlos (2022)

  Opencast mining of sulfide ore deposits may lead to the formation of anthropogenic acidic lakes with highly polluted waters. In these systems, it is crucial to understand the hydrological connections between surface and ...

  

• Soil Acidification, Mineral Neoformation and Heavy Metal Contamination Driven by Weathering of Sulphide Wastes in a Ramsar Wetland 

  Grantcharova, Mihaela M.; Fernández Caliani, Juan Carlos (MDPI, 2021-12)

  Past waste disposal practices have left large volumes of sulphidic material stockpiled in a Ramsar wetland site on the Atlantic coast of southwestern Spain, leading to severe land degradation. With the aim of addressing ...

  

• Long-Term Sustainability of Marble Waste Sludge in Reducing Soil Acidity and Heavy Metal Release in a Contaminated Mine Technosol 

  Fernández Caliani, Juan Carlos; Giráldez Díaz, Inmaculada; Fernández Landero, Sandra; Barba Brioso, Cinta; Morales Carrillo de Albornoz, Emilio (MDPI, 2022-07)

  A field‐based experiment was set up to evaluate the effectiveness of a single application of marble waste sludge (MWS) on chemical immobilization of potentially hazardous trace elements (PHE) within the soil profile of ...

  

• Application of the Comparison of Multibeam Echo-Sound Records to the Study of Stability of a Toxic Waste Stockpile Located on the Margin of a Tidal System: Tinto Estuary, Huelva, SW Spain 

  Carro Flores, Berta; Reyes, Alejandro; Morales González, Juan Antonio; Borrego Flores, José (MDPI, 2021)

  For more than 40 years, the industrial complex which developed near Huelva (in SW Spain) produced a huge amount of phosphogypsum as a waste product of manufacturing fertilizers. This waste was stockpiled in a stack 25 m ...

  

• Annelid Borings on Brachiopod Shells From the Upper Ordovician of Peru. A Long-Distance Co-migration of Biotic Partners 

  Villas, Enrique; Mayoral Alfaro, Eduardo; Santos, Ana; Colmenar, Jorge; Gutiérrez Marco, Juan Carlos (Frontiers Media, 2022)

  The Recent planktonic larvae of the polychaete spionids are some of the most widespread and abundant group of coastal meroplankton worldwide. To study the possible co-migration of biotic partners and determine whether ...

  

• Unmanned Aerial System‑Based Multispectral Water Quality Monitoring in the Iberian Pyrite Belt (SW Spain) 

  Isgró, Melisa A.; Basallote Sánchez, María Dolores; Barbero González, Luis Carlos (Mine Water and the Environment, 2021)

  Abstract Few studies have assessed mining-associated water pollution using spectral characteristics. We used high-resolution multispectral data acquired by unmanned aerial drones combined with in situ chemical data to ...

  

• The Cañaveral de León stela (Huelva, Spain). A monumental sculpture in a landscape of settlements and pathways 

  Rivera Jiménez, Timoteo; García Sanjuan, Leonardo; Díaz Guardamino, Marta; Donaire Romero, Teodosio; Morales González, Juan Antonio; Lozano Rodríguez, José Antonio; Rogerio Candelera, Miguel Ángel; Bermejo Meléndez, Javier; Aguilera Collado, Elena (Elsevier, 2021)

  A newly discovered prehistoric stela from Cañaveral de León (Huelva, Spain) is studied through a combination of scientific methods, including thin section petrography and lithological contextualisation, various state-of-the-art ...

  

• Large Amplitude Motions of Pyruvic Acid (CH3-CO-COOH) 

  Senent, María Luisa; Dalbouha, Samira (MDPI, 2021)

  Torsional and rotational spectroscopic properties of pyruvic acid are determined using highly correlated ab initio methods and combining two different theoretical approaches: Second order perturbation theory and a variational ...

  

• Contribution of anthropogenic and natural sources in PM10 during North African dust events in Southern Europe 

  Millán Martínez, María; Sánchez-Rodas Navarro, Daniel Alejandro; Sánchez de la Campa Verdona, Ana María; Rosa Díaz, Jesús de la (Elsevier, 2021)

  The influence of North African (NAF) dust events on the air quality at the regional level (12 representative monitoring stations) in Southern Europe during a long time series (2007–2014) was studied. PM10 levels and ...

  

• Condiciones de vida y salud de la población inmigrante de los asentamientos de Huelva 

  García Padilla, Francisca María; Sánchez Alcón, Miriam; Ortega Galán, Ángela María; Rosa Díaz, Jesús de la; Gómez Beltrán, Piedras Alba; Ramos Pichardo, Juan Diego (Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo, 2021)

  Fundamentos: Debido a la oferta laboral agrícola de la provincia de Huelva, la población inmigrante ha ido creciendo, estableciéndose una situación de irregularidad que favorece las labores precarias y dificulta el ...

  

• Temporal evolution of acid mine drainage (AMD) leachates from the abandoned tharsis mine (Iberian Pyrite Belt, Spain) 

  Moreno González, Raúl; Macías Suárez, Francisco; Olías Álvarez, Manuel; Ruiz Cánovas, Carlos (Elsevier, 2021)

  Acid mine drainage (AMD) due to the mining of sulfide deposits is one of the most important causes of water pollution worldwide. Remediation measures, especially in historical abandoned mines, require a deep knowledge of ...

  

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