Acid mine drainage (AMD) is a mining-associated environmental problem that mainly pollutes water resources worldwide, making it imperative to find sustainable remediation solutions. To find effective treatment solutions for AMD, it will be beneficial to understand how this area of research has evolved over the years. Thus, this work provides a bibliometric analysis and narrative review of previous research articles that have focused on AMD treatment and management over the past 47 years and highlights the associated challenges and how to overcome them. Research articles addressing the treatment and management of AMD were retrieved from the Scopus database, using specific search criteria. The Scopus Analyze Tool and VOSviewer were used to analyze the publications to provide information on the publication distribution, countries of publication, authorship, keywords, field of study, and author affiliations, while the narrative review provides an overview of how AMD treatment technologies have evolved over these years. The top ten most published countries are developed countries except for South Africa (ranking number 4). This review revealed that several approaches have been developed for AMD treatment and management. It was observed that AMD treatment methods have not drastically changed over the years. Instead, earlier treatment techniques are being improved to develop new and more effective ones. The most recent remediation approach involves the valorization of AMD for the recovery of new materials in economically viable amounts. This is a sustainable approach to AMD treatment; however, it comes with challenges that can be overcome through more research in this area.

酸性矿井排水（AMD）是一个与采矿相关的环境问题，主要污染全球水资源，因此寻找可持续的修复解决方案势在必行。为了找到针对 AMD 的有效治疗方案，了解这一研究领域多年来的发展将大有裨益。因此，这项工作对过去 47 年来关注 AMD 治疗和管理的先前研究文章进行了文献计量分析和叙述性回顾，并强调了相关的挑战以及如何克服这些挑战。使用特定的搜索标准从 Scopus 数据库中检索有关 AMD 治疗和管理的研究文章。 Scopus 分析工具和 VOSviewer 用于分析出版物，以提供有关出版物分布、出版国家、作者身份、关键词、研究领域和作者隶属关系的信息，而叙述性评论则提供 AMD 治疗技术如何发展的概述这些年来。发表最多的前十个国家是除南非（排名第 4）之外的发达国家。这篇综述表明，已经开发了几种用于 AMD 治疗和管理的方法。据观察，多年来AMD的治疗方法并没有发生根本性的改变。相反，早期的治疗技术正在得到改进，以开发新的、更有效的技术。最新的修复方法涉及 AMD 的增值，以经济上可行的数量回收新材料。这是一种可持续的 AMD 治疗方法；然而，它也带来了一些挑战，可以通过该领域的更多研究来克服。