Georgie Lyng

Feature Writer

BSc Environment Studies

Georgie Lyng is a freelance writer, with a strong interest in environmental issues, a focus on sustainable technologies, climate change science, improving biodiversity, and protection of natural ecosystems.

She was born in Reading but now lives in Somerset, England with her partner and a multitude of rescue animals.

She completed an Open University BSc Environment Studies degree in 2016, enjoys researching environment issues, and writing about the latest scientific developments in industry, and sustainable solutions to help protect the environment.

Articles from Georgie

Transporting Mined Materials: Sustainable Developments

Improving Scope 3 emissions paves the way for sustainable transportation in mining. This article will look look at this further along with recent developments in the field.

16 Jun 2022

Understanding Vegetation Changes in Coal Mining Areas

Scientists have developed a modeling system to study the relationships between anthropogenic activity and natural factors, in relation to vegetation cover in the Yangquan coal mining area of China.

14 Mar 2022

Integrating Solar Energy into Copper Mining

A drop in price has been seen in solar technologies as more are developed and invested in. In turn, this means further investment in solar energy projects for mining use, particularly in the Atacama Desert, makes economic sense for private investors.

28 Feb 2022

Removing Heavy Metals and Cyanide from Gold Mining Wastewater

Scientists have discovered a sustainable way to recover toxic metals and cyanide from wastewater associated with mining, using biochar made from waste sawdust. Biochar is a waste product of the timber industry, which would otherwise end up in landfills, and has been shown to be highly effective.

28 Feb 2022

The Future of Mining Rare Earth Elements Sustainably

Penn State University chemical engineers have been awarded a $1.7m grant to develop a sustainable process for recovering rare earth elements from phosphogypsum, a by-product of fertilizer.

23 Feb 2022

Extracting Mineral Acid from Mining Wastewater: Methods and Importance

Mineral acid is the liquid discharge that commonly flows from metal and coal mines, including abandoned mines, coal processing sites, tailings or ponds, and rock dumps. Scientists working with stakeholders have been inventing ways to extract mineral acid in efforts to reduce the environmental impact

16 Feb 2022

Environmentally Sustainable Mineral Extraction Using Glycine Leaching Processes

Mining and Process Solutions (MPS), an Australian company based in Perth, has unveiled a new leaching process for sustainable mineral extraction. Glycine leaching (Glyleach™?) claims the alkaline process it uses is low cost, readily available, and makes low-grade orphaned ore deposits commercially

17 Jan 2022

The Danger of Coal Mining-Induced Earthquakes

Engineering scientists researching seismic activity in relation to deep mining have identified the characteristics of earthquakes in strata being mined, and also how mine towers behave.

4 Jan 2022

Balancing the Need to Mine with Environmental Policies: What Does the Future Hold?

An article published in Nature Reviews Materials, Mining Our Green Future, discusses the need for careful evaluation of accepting supplies of raw materials for green technologies to ensure they benefit people and the planet.

22 Dec 2021