• Advances in concrete construction
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.221-243
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• 2018

Utilization of mine waste rocks and tailings in concrete as aggregates will help in sustainable and greener development. The literature shows the potential use of iron ore tailings as a replacement of natural fine aggregates. As natural sand reserves are depleting day by day, there is a need for substitution for sand in concrete. A comprehensive overview of the published literature on the use of iron ore waste and tailings and other industrial waste in concrete is being presented. The effect of various properties such as workability, compressive strength, split tensile strength, flexural strength, durability and microstructure of concrete have been presented in this paper.

• 방사성폐기물학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.301-312
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• 2017

The concept of deep borehole disposal (DBD) for high-level nuclear wastes has been around for about 40 years. Now, the Department of Energy (DOE) in the United States (U.S.) is re-examining this concept through recent studies at Sandia National Laboratory and a field test. With DBD, nuclear waste will be emplaced in boreholes at depths of 3 to 5 km in crystalline basement rocks. Thinking is that these settings will provide nearly intact rock and fluid density stratification, which together should act as a robust geologic barrier, requiring only minimal performance from the engineered components. The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (NWTRB) has raised concerns that the deep subsurface is more complicated, leading to science, engineering, and safety issues. However, given time and resources, DBD will evolve substantially in the ability to drill deep holes and make measurements there. A leap forward in technology for drilling could lead to other exciting geological applications. Possible innovations might include deep robotic mining, deep energy production, or crustal sequestration of $CO_2$, and new ideas for nuclear waste disposal. Novel technologies could be explored by Korean geologists through simple proof-of-concept experiments and technology demonstrations.

• 화약ㆍ발파
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.75-82
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• 2006

우리나라 석회석 광산 대부분은 광상의 부존조건, 채광실수율, 안전조업, 경제성 등을 고려하여 노천채굴 방식을 채택하고 있으나, 광산개발 과정에 따른 진입로 확보, 발파 및 장비굴착, 암석의 파쇄 및 분쇄, 운반, 선광 등으로 인한 먼지의 날림, 소음, 진동, 폐석사면 붕괴에 의한 농경지 훼손 등의 광해를 발생시켜 환경적인 문제를 유발시키고 있다. 본 연구에서는 석회석 노천채굴 작업에 따른 주변의 환경피해 최소화와 광해에 따른 경제적 손실을 감소시키기 위해 현장 시공과정에서 체험하였던 광해저감 방법들을 제시하였다.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제39권5_1호
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• pp.495-505
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• 2023

함경북도 무산군에 위치한 무산 광산은 한반도의 대표적인 노천 철 광산으로 1935년부터 본격적인 채광이 이루어졌다. 본 연구에서는 지난 백 여년 동안 무산 광산 지역에서 발생한 채광량 및 적치량을 지형 고도의 변화를 통해 추정하고자 하였다. 광산의 부피 변화를 계산하기 위해 1918년에 발행된 1:200,000 축척의 조선 제3차 지형도를 디지타이징(digitizing)하여 digital elevation model (DEM)화한후, Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) DEM (2000) 및 Copernicus DEM (2011-2015)과 비교하였다. 구해진 부피 변화에 철광석과 폐석의 밀도와 공극률을 가정하여 질량으로 환산한 결과, 백 년 동안 약 13억 7천만 톤의 철광석이 채광되었고 약 10억 6천만 톤의 폐석이 적치된 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구는 무산 광산이 본격적으로 개발되기 이전의 자연 지형 자료를 사용함으로써 약백년 가량의 무산 광산의 활동을 정량적으로 산정했다는 데 의의가 있으며, 향후 자료 획득이 제한된 북한의 장기적 지형변화 탐지에 도움이 될 것으로 기대된다.

• 자원환경지질
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• 제46권6호
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• pp.477-484
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• 2013

산성광산배수로부터 형성되는 철수산화물로부터 납-시금법을 이용하여 금을 회수하고자하였다. 폐광석으로부터 산성광산배수가 생성되고 있으며 이로부터 철수산화물이 침전되어 주변지역이 심각하게 오염되고 있다. 철수산화물에는 Fe가 평균 520.29 mg/kg, 황이 평균 4,414.62 mg/kg 그리고 금이 평균 16.19 mg/kg이 각각 포함되어 있다. 철수산화물에 대하여 XRD분석을 수행한 결과 석영과 침철석이 나타났다. 철수산화물에 대하여 납-시금법을 수행한 결과 평균 0.174 g/ton의 순수한 금을 회수 하였고, 유리질 슬래그로 평균 1.37 mg/kg의 금이 손실되었다. 유리질 슬래그로 금이 손실되는 원인은 유리질 슬래그에 방연석과 납이 형성되었기 때문이다. 유리질 슬래그에 방연석과 납이 포함되어 있는 것을 XRD분석으로 확인하였다.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.219-231
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• 2011

Waste fills resulting from coal mining should consist of large, free-draining sedimentary rocks fragments. The successful performance of these fills is related to the strength and durability of the individual rock fragments. When fills are made of shale fragments, some fragments will be durable and some will degrade into soil particles resulting from slaking and inter-particle point loads. The degraded material fills the voids between the intact fragments, and results in settlement. A laboratory program with point load and slake durability tests as well as thin section examination of sixty-eight shale samples from the Appalachian region of the United States revealed that pore micro-geometry has a major influence on degradation. Under saturated and unsaturated conditions, the shales absorb water, and the air in their pores is compressed, breaking the shales. This breakage was more pronounced in shales with smooth pore boundaries and having a diameter equal to or smaller than 0.060 mm. If the pore walls were rough, the air-pressure breaking mechanism was not effective. However, pore roughness (measured by the fractal dimension) had a detrimental effect on point load resistance. This study indicated that the optimum shales to resist both slaking as well as point loads are those that have pores with a fractal dimension equal to 1.425 and a diameter equal to or smaller than 0.06 mm.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.889-898
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• 2018

Backfilling of mine stopes with waste rocks or tailings is commonly done to enhance ground stability. It is also an alternative for mining wastes disposal. A successful application of underground backfilling requires an accurate evaluation of the stress distribution in stopes. Over the years, various analytical solutions have been proposed to assess these stresses. Most of them were based on the arching theory, considering uniform stresses across horizontal layer elements. The vertical and horizontal stresses in vertical stopes are principal stresses only along the vertical center line, but not close to the walls where there is rotation of the principal stresses. A few solutions use arc layer elements that follow the iso-contours of the minor principal stresses, based on numerical solutions. In this paper, a modified analytical solution is developed for the stresses in vertical backfilled stopes, considering a circular arc distribution. The proposed solution is calibrated with a few numerical modeling results and then validated by additional numerical simulations under different conditions.

• 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지구물리탐사학회 2003년도 Proceedings of the international symposium on the fusion technology
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• pp.529-531
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• 2003

In order to investigate the level of heavy metal contamination and the seasonal variation of metal concentrations in soils and sediments influenced by past mining activities, tailings, soil and sediment samples were collected from the Hwacheon mine in Korea. The main pollution sources in this mine site are suggested as tailings and mine waste rocks. Elevated levels of Cd, Pb and Zn were found in soils and sediments. In a study of seasonal variation on the heavy metals in soils and sediments, heavy metals were higher enriched collected from before rainy season ($2^{nd}$ sampling) than after rainy season ($1^{st}$ sampling). Also, in order to estimate the microbial effects on Cd speciation in sediments, bacteria which can adsorb Cd was isolated and Cd adsorption characteristics of isolated bacteria in Cd solution was evaluated. The Cd bioremoval efficiency in Cd solution (5 ppm) by bacteria was more than $90\%$. Bioremoval efficiency in single metal solution was higher than that in mixed metal solution of Pb and Zn.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제33권6호
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• pp.483-494
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• 2023

국내에서 널리 사용되는 전기비저항과 유도분극탐사는 지하 매질 정보를 얻는 대표적인 물성인 전기적 성질을 측정하는 방법이다. 다양한 현장에서 획득하는 탐사 자료에 대한 정밀한 해석을 위해서는 매질의 물성 정보를 정확하게 측정하는 것이 중요하다. 암석의 전기적 물성 측정은 전류 전극과 전위 전극을 동일한 전극으로 사용하는 2전극법과 전류 전극과 전위 전극을 분리하여 측정하는 4전극법으로 구분된다. 2전극법은 4전극법에 비해 시료와 전극의 접촉이 매우 용이하므로 일반적으로 많이 사용되고 있지만, 시료뿐만 아니라 전극의 임피던스가 함께 측정된다는 문제가 있다. 이 연구에서는 유도분극 특성을 갖지 않는 물시료와 유도분극 특성을 갖는 흑연과 시멘트를 혼합한 인공 시료에 대하여 2전극법과 4전극법을 사용하여 시간영역 유도분극 효과를 측정하고 그 결과를 비교하였다. 또한, 현장탐사를 모사한 수조모형 실험으로 두 전극법의 결과와 비교하여, 모형실험과 4전극법의 결과가 잘 일치하는 것을 확인하였다. 따라서, 4전극법이 전위전극의 설치에 어려움이 있지만 2전극법에 비해 전위전극의 임피던스에 의한 문제를 줄일 수 있어 전기적 물성 측정에 효과적임을 확인하였다.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.10-21
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• 2022

In the South Korea, 47% of abandoned mines are suffering from the mining hazards such as the mine drainage (MD), the mine tailings and the waste rocks. Among them the mine drainage which has a low pH and the high concentration of heavy metals can directly contaminate rivers or soil and cause serious damages to human health. The natural/artificial treatment facilities by using neutralizers and coagulants for the mine drainage have been operated in domestic and most of heavy metals in mind drainage are precipitated and removed in the form of metal hydroxide, alumino-silicate or carbonate, generating a large amount of mine drainage treated sludge ('MDS' hereafter) by-product. The MDS has a large surface area and many functional groups, showing high efficiency on the fixation of heavy metals. The purpose of this study is to develop a ingenious heavy metal stabilizer that can effectively stabilize arsenic (As) and heavy metals in soil by recycling the MDS (two types of MDS: the acid mine drainage treated sludge (MMDS) and the coal mine drainage treated sludge (CMDS)). Various analyses, toxicity evaluations, and leaching reduction batch experiments were performed to identify the characteristics of MDS as the stabilizer for soils contaminated with As and heavy metals. As a result of batch experiments, the Pb stabilization efficiency of both of MDSs for soil A was higher than 90% and their Zn stabilization efficiencies were higher than 70%. In the case of soil B and C, which were contaminated with As, their As stabilization efficiencies were higher than 80%. Experimental results suggested that both of MDSs could be successfully applied for the As and heavy metal contaminated soil as the soil stabilizer, because of their low unit price and high stabilization efficiency for As and hevry metals.