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Andalusian experts working in the recovery of areas degraded by mining activities

20/05/2009

May 20, 2009

Areas affected by mining activities in the regions of Riotinto (Huelva) and Alquife (Granada) will be subject to an environmental reclamation project-based, among other solutions, the planting of vegetable species able to absorb the quimicometálicos of its soil components.

The fitorrestauración of tailings from mining areas is ongoing for some time but increasingly requires more use of plans that take into account the soil as a resource. To this end, a group of research of the Experimental Station of the Zaidín (CSIC) proposes strategies compatible with the natural and economic sustainability based on introduction of plant species of ecological and economic importance in combination with 'catalysts' for the absorption of nutrients and the material of industrial waste available in the vicinity of the mine.

For researchers "the revitalization of Brownfields in minero-industriales regions is a problem of enormous economic and social impact by different processes involving." "Environmental awareness and new consideration of soil as a resource take host a new conception of the reuse of abandoned spaces, they say.