• Hydrogeochemical assessment, water treatment and revalorization of dumps, tailings and drainages produced at phalaborwa industrial complex 

  Gómez Arias, Alba (Universidad de Huelva, 2021)

  The Phalaborwa Industrial Complex is formed by several mines and factories that extract value out of the geological formation named Phalaborwa (or Palabora) Igneous Complex (PIC). The industrial activity started in 1950’s ...

• 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 ...

  

• Metal(loid) release from sulfide-rich wastes to the environment: The case of the Iberian Pyrite Belt (SW Spain) 

  Ruiz Cánovas, Carlos; Macías Suárez, Francisco; Basallote Sánchez, María Dolores; Olías Álvarez, Manuel; Nieto Liñán, José Miguel; Pérez López, Rafael (Elsevier, 2021)

  Sulfide-mining wastes may lead to severe environmental and human health risks, especially challenging in abandoned mines without environmental regulation. This work is aimed at discussing the environmental problems associated ...

  

• Soil quality changes in an Iberian pyrite mine site 15 years after land reclamation 

  Fernández Caliani, Juan Carlos; Giráldez Díaz, Inmaculada; Waken, Wilson; Río, Zulema del; Córdoba García, Francisco (Elsevier, 2021)

  Reclamation of highly degraded mine lands to a sustainable environmental quality has become a major policy concern in many countries with a long mining tradition. This paper reports the soil quality status of a historical ...

  

• Geochemical and Volcanological Criteria in Assessing the Links between Volcanism and VMS Deposits: A Case on the Iberian Pyrite Belt, Spain 

  Pascual Martínez, Emilio; Donaire Romero, Teodosio; Toscano Macías, Manuel; Macías, Gloria; Pin, C. (MDPI, 2021)

  VMS deposits in the Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB), Spain and Portugal, constitute the largest accumulation of these deposits on Earth. Although several factors account for their genetic interpretation, a link between volcanism ...

  

• Mineralogical and Crystal-Chemical Constraints on the Glauconite-Forming Process in Neogene Sediments of the Lower Guadalquivir Basin (SW Spain) 

  Fernández Landero, Sandra; Fernández Caliani, Juan Carlos (MDPI, 2021-05)

  Glaucony is a significant green marine facies in the northwestern passive margin of the Guadalquivir Basin (Spain), where glauconite formed authigenically on a sediment-starved continental shelf, with fecal pellets and ...

  

• On the rootless nature of a Devonian suture in SW Iberia (Ossa-Morena Complex, Variscan Orogen): geometry and kinematics of the Azuaga Fault 

  Díez Fernández, Rubén; Fernández Rodríguez, Carlos; Arenas, Ricardo; Novo Fernández, Irene (Wiley, 2021-05)

  Suture zones are key to understand collisional orogens, but not all the remains of subduction leading to collision occur in the root of the suture. The Azuaga Fault bounds a Devonian suture zone known as Central Unit. ...

  

• Distribution and availability of rare earth elements and trace elements in the estuarine waters of the Ría of Huelva (SW Spain) 

  Ruiz Cánovas, Carlos; Basallote Sánchez, María Dolores; Macías Suárez, Francisco (Elsevier, 2020-08)

  Metal pollution in estuaries represents a serious environmental challenge, especially in areas affected by industrial and mining activities. This study investigates the metal partitioning and availability of rare earth ...

  

• Mine waters as a secondary source of rare earth elements worldwide: The case of the Iberian Pyrite Belt 

  León, Rafael; Macías Suárez, Francisco; Ruiz Cánovas, Carlos; Pérez López, Rafael; Ayora Ibáñez, Carlos; Nieto Liñán, José Miguel; Olías Álvarez, Manuel (Elsevier, 2021-05)

  Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) generates a great concern worldwide due to its severe impact to water resources during hundreds and even thousands of years after the cessation of mining activity if control measures are not ...

  

• Geochemical behaviour and transport of technology critical metals (TCMs) by the Tinto River (SW Spain) to the Atlantic Ocean 

  Ruiz Cánovas, Carlos; Basallote Sánchez, María Dolores; Macías Suárez, Francisco; Olías Álvarez, Manuel; Pérez López, Rafael; Ayora, Carlos; Nieto Liñán, José Miguel (Elsevier, 2021-04)

  This paper addresses the behaviour of several technology critical metals (TCMs), i.e., rare earth elements (REEs), Y, Sc, Ga and Tl, in the Tinto River (SW Spain), quantifying their fluxes to the Atlantic Ocean and unravelling ...

  

• Messinian ostracodes from the western Betic Strait (SW Spain) 

  Romero, Verónica; Ruiz Muñoz, Francisco; González-Regalado Montero, María Luz; Tosquella Angrill, Josep; Abad de los Santos, Manuel; Izquierdo, Tatiana; Toscano Grande, Antonio; Gómez, Paula (Carnets de Geologie, 2021-04)

  During the Neogene, the Betic Strait was one of the gateways that connected the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. In this paper, we have analyzed the ostracod faunas of samples collected from sediments crossed ...

  

• Evaluation of the atmospheric impact derived from the evaporation of phosphogypsum acid leachates 

  Torres Sánchez, Raquel (Universidad de Huelva, 2020)

  The city of Huelva (SW Spain) has been highly industrialized since the 60s. Owing to the promotion of the economic growth of the region, two industrial estates were established near the population. Among several industries ...

  

• Copper Flash Smelting Process Balance Modeling 

  Bacedoni, María; Moreno-Ventas Bravo, Ignacio; Ríos Ransanz, Guillermo (MDPI, 2020-09)

  Process control in flash smelting is based on mass and energy balance from which the operational parameters (oxygen coefficient, oxygen enrichment, and flux demand) are obtained to achieve matte and slag with defined ...

  

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