The results of a long-term research program carried out by the University of Bologna in collaboration with Agip Petroli SpA in the start and later with APAT are presented. In this work a census of Italian mining sites, currently the only one existing nation-wide, has been undertaken. Said census has identified about three thousand sites, active in the period 1870 – 2006, and has led to implement a mine database. The main target was initially to characterize abandoned mines in order to define their potentiality for rehabilitation projects. Afterwards, the database has supplied data to classify the level of geomechanical instability of abandoned underground mines, based on a new risk index (RI). The paper describes also the problems met in acquiring elements of knowledge, which have influenced the database structure, and the criteria established to determine the parameters to be considered in RI definition.
Implementation of a database for risk assessment of abandoned Italian mining sites / A. Bandini; P. Berry; C. Dacquino. - STAMPA. - volume unico:(2009), pp. 494-502. (Intervento presentato al convegno Eleventh International Symposium on Environmental Issues and Waste Management in Energy and Mineral Production (SWEMP 2009) tenutosi a Banff, Alberta, Canada nel 16 - 18 novembre 2009).
Implementation of a database for risk assessment of abandoned Italian mining sites
BANDINI, ANNALISA;BERRY, PAOLO;
2009
Abstract
The results of a long-term research program carried out by the University of Bologna in collaboration with Agip Petroli SpA in the start and later with APAT are presented. In this work a census of Italian mining sites, currently the only one existing nation-wide, has been undertaken. Said census has identified about three thousand sites, active in the period 1870 – 2006, and has led to implement a mine database. The main target was initially to characterize abandoned mines in order to define their potentiality for rehabilitation projects. Afterwards, the database has supplied data to classify the level of geomechanical instability of abandoned underground mines, based on a new risk index (RI). The paper describes also the problems met in acquiring elements of knowledge, which have influenced the database structure, and the criteria established to determine the parameters to be considered in RI definition.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
