Emerging remediation potentiality of struvite developed from municipal wastewater for the treatment of acid mine drainage.

The valorisation of wastewaters for minerals recovery and their potential beneficiation has gained enormous attention recently. In this study the removal of phosphate and ammonia from municipal wastewater using activated magnesite resulted in the formation of struvite. The optimum conditions for the synthesis of struvite were 60 min of mixing, 300 rpm mixing speed, 1 g of activated magnesite and room temperature, whilst optimum conditions for the treatment of acid mine drainage (AMD) using the synthesized struvite were 45 min of mixing, 20 g of struvite dosage, 1000 mL, and 300 rpm mixing speed.