A new experiment for assessing the ecological improvement of METP is running un the BETA Tech Center.
Schluesselstollen is a mining tunnel for drainage of the former Mansfeld copper shale district in Saxony-Anhalt, a copper mining area in Germany.
This area was selected because it is one of the longest of its kind in Europe: a monument to the art of the miners of the 18th and 19th centuries. It carries by far the largest quantities of water and thus relevant, largely geogenically caused and anthropogenically overshaped metal and salt loads. Since 1981, the remaining water flows out of the abandoned mines via the Schluesselstollen to the creek Schlenze before it flows into the river Saale.
A METP pilot plant is operating in this site, to study the capacity of our technology on reducing metal concentration and salinity of the mining water effluents.
BETA team is testing how these treatments suppose an environmental improvement, comparing the response of algae communities exposed to untreated effluents of Schluesselstollen mine with the response of algae communities exposed to treated effluents of Schluesselstollen mine by means of the METP.
