Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

Raevich K. V., Associate Professor, Candidate of Engineering Sciences, zenkoviv@mail.ru
Vokin V. N., Professor, Candidate of Engineering Sciences
Kiryushina E. V., Associate Professor, Candidate of Engineering Sciences
Maglinets Yu. A., Professor, Candidate of Engineering Sciences

The paper was written with the participation of I. V. Zenkov, Professor, Doctor of Engineering Sciences.

The authors describe the main achievements in the sphere of recovery ecology in the mining industry, namely, in the sphere of clarification and treatment of water resources pumped out of mines or used in mineral processing. The review reveals that water treatment includes removal of both mono contaminants and a number of elements (metals and their compounds), or nonmetallic toxic compounds from water. When solving ecological problems, researchers widely use chemical, physical, electrochemical and other methods of waste water clarification and treatment. The recent ecology of water resources is collecting a new knowledge on accumulation of different metals by species of higher vascular plants, water plants, fungi and microbial communities.

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