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The presence of mining waste (known as tailings or mining dumps) near residential zones has been a major health and environmental problem in the mining district of Hidalgo, Mexico, causing allergies and respiratory complications due to the strong winds that characterize the region. For this reason the development of industrial materials from mining waste is suggested in this paper. The stabilization of the tailings involved taking samples and determining their chemical composition and particle size. Afterwards, the alternative industrial materials were produced by using the tailings and heavy clay in order to give the composite a good green strength and plasticity during development, but above all to give it a compressive strength similar or higher than that of products derived from conventional processes.
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B., J.F., A., J.H., L., M.P., C., F.P., S., J.A.O., P., N.Y.T. (2015). Developing Alternative Industrial Materials from Mining Waste. In: Fergus, J.W., Mishra, B., Anderson, D., Sarver, E.A., Neelameggham, N.R. (eds) Engineering Solutions for Sustainability. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48138-8_11
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