Water contamination downstream from a copper mine in the Apuseni Mountains, Romania

Environmental Geology

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 773-782

  Milu, V ^a   Leroy, Jacques L ^b   Peiffert, C ^c  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF ROMANIA   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^c CREGU Centre de Recherches sur la Geologie des Matieres Premieres Minerales et Energetiques   (France)

Author keywords

Acid rock drainage; Mineral weathering; Open pit mine; Romania; Sulphides

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; COPPER; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; WATER; WEATHERING;

ACID-ROCK DRAINAGE (ARD);

GEOLOGY;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COPPER; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; SULFIDE; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER POLLUTION;

APUSENI MOUNTAINS; ROMANIA;

EID: 0036820387     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-002-0580-5     Document Type: Article

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