Technogenic minerals in the waste rock heaps of Estonian oil shale mines and their use to predict the environmental impact of the waste

Oil Shale

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 99-107

  Puura, E ^a,b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERBURNING; ESTONIAN OIL SHALE; ETTRINGITES; FERRIC OXYHYDROXIDE; SIZE AND SHAPE; SOLID PHASIS; SULFATE CONTENT; SURFACE LAYERS;

AMORPHOUS CARBON; OIL SHALE; ROCKS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SHALE OIL; SILICATE MINERALS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

EID: 0009274798     PISSN: 0208189X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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