ABSTRACT
Tremendous opportunities exist in the area of novel materials for environmental engineering applications. These opportunities have traditionally been in the areas of membranes, ion exchange, and adsorbents, but new areas relating to technological advances in “nanomaterials” and “bio-applications” have spawned new generations of designed materials for many pollution control applications. The emphasis in this chapter will be on new technologies which have been or will be useful for pollution control in the mining industry. This will require a review of developments in the general areas of membranes, ion exchange, and adsorption, and discussion of how these materials are useful in mining applications.
