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  1. Phytoremediation strategies for remediating potentially toxic elements’polluted soils in lead-zinc mining areas: a critical review

    Article • Environmental Research Communications, November 2025, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Maria Cristina Vila

  2. Towards a European sustainable beneficiation of rare earth elements bearing minerals: a review

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, June 2025, Elsevier

    Maria Cristina Vila

  3. A Systematic Review of Machine Learning Algorithms for Soil Pollutant Detection Using Satellite Imagery

    Article • Remote Sensing, March 2025, MDPI AG

    Maria Cristina Vila

  4. Innovative pre-feasibility studies towards the sustainable production of rare earth concentrates for self-supply in Europe

    Article • January 2025, Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science (CEON/CEES)

    Maria Cristina Vila

  5. The Legacy of Potential Environmental Soil Contamination in an Antimony Mining Heritage Area

    Article • Minerals, February 2023, MDPI AG

    Maria Cristina Vila

  6. Bioaugmentation and Biostimulation for Remediation of BTEX

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Cristina Vila

  7. Quantitative Risk Assessment of Environmental Hazards Generated by a Tailings Embankment: case study Cabeço do Pião, Portugal

    Article • December 2021, Instituto Geologico y Minero de Espana

    Maria Cristina Vila

  8. Appraisal of the Laboratory-Scale Tests for Bioleaching of Low-Grade Heavy Metal-(oid) s Resources

    Article • Water Air & Soil Pollution, June 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Cristina Vila

  9. Characterisation of bacterial communities from an active mining site and assessment of its potential metal solubilising activity

    Article • Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, December 2020, Elsevier

    Maria Cristina Vila

  10. Characterization of a mine legacy site: an approach for environmental management and metals recovery

    Article • Environmental Science and Pollution Research, January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Cristina Vila

  11. Tailings microbial community profile and prediction of its functionality in basins of tungsten mine

    Article • Scientific Reports, December 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Cristina Vila, Professor Paula V Morais

  12. A Holistic Approach in Re-Mining Old Tailings Deposits for the Supply of Critical-Metals: A Portuguese Case Study

    Article • Minerals, October 2019, MDPI AG

    Maria Cristina Vila

  13. A Holistic Approach in Re-Mining Old Tailings Deposits for The Supply of Critical Metals: A Portuguese Case

    Article • August 2019, MDPI AG

    Maria Cristina Vila

  14. Direct Pressure Alkaline Leaching of Scheelite Ores and Concentrates

    Article • Mining Metallurgy & Exploration, July 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Cristina Vila

  15. Bi-level depth assessment of an abandoned tailings dam aiming its reprocessing for recovery of valuable metals

    Article • Minerals Engineering, March 2019, Elsevier

    Maria Cristina Vila

  16. A SUSTAINABLE TAILINGS REPROCESSING PROJECT: A CASE OF STUDY IN PORTUGAL

    Article • June 2018, STEF92 Technology

    Maria Cristina Vila

  17. DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OF A TAILINGS REPROCESSING: TUNGSTEN AND ZINC RECOVERY

    Article • June 2018, STEF92 Technology

    Maria Cristina Vila

  18. Bromine leaching as an alternative method for gold dissolution

    Article • Minerals Engineering, March 2018, Elsevier

    Maria Cristina Vila

  19. Tailings reprocessing from Cabeço do Pião dam in Central Portugal: A kinetic approach of experimental data

    Article • Journal of Sustainable Mining, January 2018, Elsevier

    Maria Cristina Vila

  20. Innovative Biohydrometallurgical Approaches in the EU Project FAME

    Article • Solid State Phenomena, August 2017, Trans Tech Publications

    Maria Cristina Vila

  21. Assisted bioremediation

    Article • EURASIAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE (EJSS), July 2015, Eurasian Journal of Soil Sciences

    Maria Cristina Vila

  22. How the sorption of benzene in soils contaminated with aromatic hydrocarbons is affected by the presence of biofuels

    Article • EURASIAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE (EJSS), April 2015, Eurasian Journal of Soil Sciences

    Maria Cristina Vila

  23. Advanced Numerical Tools Applied to Geo-environmental Engineering - Soils Contaminated by Petroleum Hydrocarbons, a Case Study

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Cristina Vila

  24. Bioventing tests in contaminated residual granitic soils

    Article • Journal of Biotechnology, November 2010, Elsevier

    Maria Cristina Vila

  25. Preventing acid mine drainage from mine tailings

    Article • May 2008, WITPRESS LTD.

    Maria Cristina Vila

  26. An insight into soil bioremediation through respirometry

    Article • Environment International, February 2005, Elsevier

    Maria Cristina Vila