Feasibility of Fungi to Remove Heavy Metals
from Mine Wastewater

The Project

This project objective is to determine the feasibility of fungi as a biosorbent to remove metals from heavily contaminated waters. A major source of metal contamination is mine waste, often resulting from mine accidents due to the failure of containment walls, piping, or other structural failures. Cleanup from these types of accidents can be costly and, therefore, alternative remediation methods are of particular interest. This project designed and ran an experiment that tested the ability of fungi to remove metals from mine waste.