Evolution of sulphides-rich mine tailings and immobilization of As and Fe

Comptes Rendus de l'Academie de Sciences - Serie IIa: Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes

Volumn 329, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 787-794

  Roussel, Christophe ^a   Bril, Hubert ^a,b   Fernandez, Angel ^a  

^a Lab d'analyse struct/hydrothermal   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Ferric oxy hydroxides; French Massif Central; Normative calculation; Tailings

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; IMMOBILIZATION; MINE DRAINAGE; TAILINGS;

FRANCE; MASSIF CENTRAL;

OXY;

EID: 0033573363     PISSN: 12518050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1251-8050(00)88633-4     Document Type: Article

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