Mineral Biosequestration of Organic Carbon in Early Pedogenesis of Tailings

将尾矿回收利用到土壤中（由技术母质形成的技术土壤）提供了一种可持续的方法，以克服严重的表土短缺，限制了整个矿山尾矿生态恢复的进展。该项目旨在建立新的知识矿物生物风化，有机碳（OC）封存在快速形成的矿物阶段，和OC营业额由殖民微生物和植物根系驱动，在早期的成土作用的尾矿开始的有机和无机材料的输入。开发适用于各种不同矿物的尾矿的生态工程技术，以实现可持续的尾矿恢复和有机碳固存，需要这种新的知识。

Upcycling tailings into soil (technosols developed from technogenic parent materials) offers a sustainable approach to overcome severe topsoil shortage that limits the progress of ecological rehabilitation of tailings across mine sites. This project aims to establish new knowledge on mineral bioweathering, organic carbon (OC) sequestration in rapidly formed mineral phases, and OC turnover driven by colonising microbes and plant roots, in the early pedogenesis of tailings initiated by inputs of organic and inorganic materials. This new knowledge is required for developing eco-engineering technology adaptable to a wide range of tailings of diverse mineralogy, to achieve sustainable tailings rehabilitation and organic carbon sequestration.