Martin Schulze
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This Huge Mining Pit Is About To Be A Lake
To some extent, of course, yes. Because I like my job and my research.
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This Huge Mining Pit Is About To Be A Lake
But these lakes are a beautiful piece of nature. And that is a very important driving force for me in my work. I want to keep them clean. I want to keep them in an ecologically healthy state so that both nature and we as humans can benefit from them.
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This Huge Mining Pit Is About To Be A Lake
Then the groundwater is... rebounding, and the former mining hole becomes a lake.
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This Huge Mining Pit Is About To Be A Lake
As long as this mineral is deep underground and has no contact with air and that means oxygen, everything is fine. But once it comes into contact with air, The oxidation is started.
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This Huge Mining Pit Is About To Be A Lake
The hydrogen carbonate, also called bicarbonate, that is contained in almost all fresh waters that you find in rivers and streams. That is a major actor in that neutralizing process. And it works very well.
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This Huge Mining Pit Is About To Be A Lake
Then you have the pressure against that inflow, and that is the stabilizing force.