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Poster Session 1<br />

s925<br />

chem. Listy 106, s587–s1425 (2012)<br />

Poster session 1 - Mining and the Environment<br />

P - 0 1 3 0<br />

reCLAMAtion of Mine tAiLinGS uSinG BioChAr<br />

And SewAGe SLudGe<br />

e. GJenGedAL 1 , r. LiAn 1 , M. StroMMe 1 ,<br />

P. h. heyerdAhL 2<br />

1 Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Dept. of Plant and<br />

Environmental Sciences, As, Norway<br />

2 Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Dept. of Mathematical<br />

Science and Technology, As, Norway<br />

In order to make barren tailings suitable for plant growth,<br />

amendment is necessary. The possibility of using biochar, the<br />

carbon-rich product of biomass heated without access to air, in<br />

combination with aluminium and iron precipitated sewage sludge<br />

in reclamation of mine tailings is explored. The biochar used was<br />

made from CCA (copper, chromium, and arsenic) treated wood<br />

sources in a microwave pyrolysis process at

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