Stephen Hancock (1938–2022)

Stephen Hancock served as the first Vice President of the first elected IMWA Executive Council and was heavily involved with organizing the 1988 IMWA Congress in Melbourne. The solution at the time relied on vacuum desalination to remove the salt from the water and then re-inject the residual brine...

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Published in:Mine water and the environment 2022-06, Vol.41 (2), p.595-596
Main Authors: Fernández-Rubio, Rafael, Waterhouse, John
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Brines
Coal mining
Collaboration
Contamination
Desalination
Design
Diapirs
Earth and Environmental Science
Earth Sciences
Ecotoxicology
Friendship
Geology
Groundwater
Hydrogeology
Industrial Pollution Prevention
Mineral Resources
Mining industry
Nutrients
Obituary
Reed beds
Saline water
Sediments
Slurries
Social responsibility
Suspended sediments
Water desalting
Water Quality/Water Pollution
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Summary:Stephen Hancock served as the first Vice President of the first elected IMWA Executive Council and was heavily involved with organizing the 1988 IMWA Congress in Melbourne. The solution at the time relied on vacuum desalination to remove the salt from the water and then re-inject the residual brine into the diapir, away from the mine, and under the shelter of a stabilized clay slurry injection. The solution adopted was an unsophisticated system of wetlands with reed beds to filter much of the nutrients and suspended sediments to allow the water to be discharged into the hydrographic network.
ISSN:1025-9112
1616-1068
DOI:10.1007/s10230-022-00874-7