This work deals with environmental quality tests applied to a construction product made with mixtures that include polymetallic mineral flotation tailings. The tests that were performed to the solid brick and the mining tailings with treatment, are based on Resolution 0631 of 2015 chapter 5, which establishes the parameters and maximum permissible limit values in point discharges to surface water bodies and public sewage systems, our brick will be exposed to the outdoors therefore when it rains, the water drains by runoff to the sewage system. In the present work we evaluate each of the following parameters: pH, CONDUCTIVITY (µS/cm), RESISTANCE (25°C) (MΩ-cm), TDS PPM (Total dissolved solids), TEMPERATURE (°C), ORP (mV), PHOSPHATES (mEq/L), NITRATES NO3- (ppm), NITRITES (NO2-) (ppm), HEAVY METALS (mEq/L). The results obtained and compared with Resolution 631 of 2015 show us that the ...

The province of Soto Norte (Santander), Colombia, is known for its mining tradition in the municipalities of Vetas and California. Four centuries ago, mining exploitation was developed and environmental liabilities were generated, which put at risk in activity. Many defend the topographic and vegetal restoration of exhausted mining operations, burying them or sealing them. However, when these works have brought out mineral outcrops of worldwide interest or have allowed access to galleries excavated many centuries ago that have provided valuable archaeological remains that have served to learn a little more about our history. Therefore, in the face of the generally accepted idea that the restoration of a mining waste inevitably passes through its burial or sealing. Geotourism around the mining industry is an emerging sector that contributes not only to the diffusion of the interesting geo...