A natural attenuation of arsenic in drainage from an abandoned arsenic mine dump

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1267-1278

  Fukushi, Keisuke ^a   Sasaki, Miwa ^a   Sato, Tsutomu ^a   Yanase, Nobuyuki ^b   Amano, Hikaru ^b   Ikeda, Hodaka ^c  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c SOPHIA Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDITY; ARSENIC; CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; CONTAMINATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MINING; OXIDATION; PH EFFECTS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PYRITES; WATER QUALITY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ION-CHROMATOGRAPHY;

DRAINAGE;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ARSENIC; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MINE WASTE; NATURAL ATTENUATION; OXIDATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); WATER QUALITY;

HONSHU; JAPAN; NISHINOMAKI;

EID: 0037672495     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0883-2927(03)00011-8     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Alpers, C.N., Blowes, D.W., Nordstrom, D.K., Jambor, J.L., 1994. Secondary minerals and acid mine-water chemistry. In: Jambor, J.L., Blowes, D.W. (Eds.), Short Course Handbook on Environmental Geochemistry of Sulfide Mine-Wastes. Mineralogical Association of Canada, pp. 247-270.
2. Ball, J. W., Nordstrom, D.K., 1991. Users Manual for WATEQ4F, with Revised Thermodynamic Data Base and Test Cases for Calculating Speciation of Major, Trace and Redox Element in Natural Waters. USGS Open File Report. pp. 91-183.
3. 2+, and anion type on aging of Fe(III) hydroxide precipitates. Environ. Sci. Technol. 31, 1024-1032.
4. Berger, A.C., Bethke, C.M., Krumhansl, J.L., 2000. A process model of natural attenuation in drainage from a historic mining district. Appl. Geochem. 15, 655-666.
5. Bigham, J.M., 1994. Mineralogy of ochre deposits formed by sulfide oxidation. In: Jambor, J.L., Blowes, D.W. (Eds.), Short Course Handbook on Environmental Geochemistry of Sulfide Mine-Wastes. Mineralogical Association of Canada, pp. 103-132.
6. Bigham, J.M., Nordstrom, D.K., 2000. Iron and aluminum hydroxysulfates from acid sulfate waters. In: Alpers, C.N., Jambor, D.K., Nordstrom, D.K. (Eds.), Sulfate Minerals. Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry, vol. 40. Mineralogical Society of America, Geochemical Society, pp. 177-260.
7. Bigham, J.M., Schwertmann, U., Carlson, L., Murad, E., 1990. A poorly crystallized oxyhydroxysulfate of iron formed by bacterial oxidation of Fe(II) in acid mine waters. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 54, 2743-2758.
8. Bigham, J.M., Schwertmann, U., Traina, S.J., Winland, R.L., Wolf, M., 1996. Schwertmannite and the chemical modeling of iron in acid sulfate waters. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 60, 2111-2121.
9. Bowell, R.J., Bruce, I., 1995. Geochemistry of iron ochres and mine waters from Levant Mine, Cornwall. Appl. Geochim. 10, 237-250.
10. Carlson, L., Bigham, J.M., Schwertmann, U., Kyek, A., Wagner, F., 2002. Scavenging of As from acid mine drainage by Schwertmannite and Ferrihydrite: a comparison with synthetic analogs. Environ. Sci. Technol. 36, 1712-1719.
11. Chapman, B.M., Jones, D.R., Jung, R.F., 1983. Processes controlling metal ion attenuation in acid mine drainage stream. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 47, 1957-1973.
12. Cornell, R.M., Schwertmann, U., 1979. Influence of organic anions on the crystallization of ferrihydrite. Clays Clay Miner. 27, 402-410.
13. Cornell, R.M., Schwertmann, U., 1998. The Iron Oxide. VCH Publishers.
14. Cornell, R.M., Giovanoli, R., Schindler, P.W., 1987. Effect of silicate species on the transformation of ferrihydrite into goethite and hematite in alkaline media. Clays Clay Miner. 35, 21-28.
15. Fischer, W.R., Schwertmann, U., 1975. The formation of hematite from amorphous Fe(III) hydroxide. Clays Clay Miner. 23, 33-37.
16. Fukushi, K., Sato, T., Yanase, N., 2002. Sorption of As(V) onto schwertmannite and its effect on the transformation. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 66/SI, A249.
17. Hudson-Edwards, K.A., Schell, C., Macklin, M.G., 1999. Mineralogy and geochemistry of alluvium contaminated by metal minig in the Rio Tionto area, southwest Spain. Appl. Geochim. 14, 1015-1030.
18. Jambor, J.L., Blowes, D.W., Ptacek, C.J., 2000. Mineralogy of mine wastes and strategies for remediation. In: Vaughan, D.J., Wogelius, R.A. (Eds.), Environmental Mineralogy. EMU Notes in Mineralogy, vol. 2, pp. 255-290.
19. Kimball, B.A., Broshears, R.A., McKnight, D.M., Bencala, K.E., 1994. Effects of instream pH modification on transport of sulfide-oxidation products. In: Alpers, C.N., Blowes, D.W. (Eds.), The Environmental Geochemistry of Sulfide Oxidation. Am Chem Soc Symp Series, vol. 550, pp. 224-243.
20. McCarty, D.K, Moore, J.N., Marcus, W.A., 1998. Mineralogy and trace element association in an acid mine drainage iron oxide precipitate; comparison of selective extraction. Appl. Geochim. 13, 165-176.
21. Morse, J.W., Casey, W.H., 1988. Ostwald processes and mineral paragenesis in sediments. Am. J. Sci. 288, 537-560.
22. 2+ in acid sulfate waters. In: Alpers, C.N., Blowes, D.W. (Eds.), The Environmental Geochemistry of Sulfide Oxidation. Am. Chem. Soc. Symp. Series, vol. 550, pp. 190-200.
23. Paige, C.R, Snodgrass, W.J., Nicholson, R.V., Scharer, J.M., 1997. An arsenate effect on ferrihydrite dissolution kinetics under acidic oxic conditions. Water Res. 31, 2370-2382.
24. Parkhurst, D.L., Appelo, C.A.J., 1999. User's Guide to PHREEQC (Version 2) - A Computer Program for Speciation, Batch-Reaction, One-Dimensional Transport, and Inverse Geochemical Calculations. Water Resources Investigations Report 99-4259.
25. Schwertmann, U., Cornell, R.M., 1991. Iron Oxides in the Laboratory. VCH Publishers, Weinheim.
26. Schwertmann, U., Murad, E., 1983. Effect of pH on the formation of goethite and hematite from ferrihydrite. Clays Clay Miner. 31, 277-284.
27. Schwertmann, U., Bigham, J.M., Murad, E., 1995. The first occurrence of schwertmannite in a natural stream environment. Eur. J. Miner. 7, 547-552.
28. Singer, P.C., Stumm, W., 1970. Acid mine drainage: the rate-determining step. Science 167, 1121-1123.
29. Stumm, W., 1992. Chemistry of the Soil-Water interaction. Wiley and Sons, New York.
30. Tebo, B.M., Ghiorse, W.C., van, Waasbergen, L.G., Siering, P.L., Caspi, R., 1997. Bacterially mediated mineral formation: Insights into manganese(II) oxidation from molecular genetic and biochemical studies. In: Banfield, J.F., Nealson, K.H. (Eds.), Geomicrobiology. Reviews in Mineralogy. Mineralogical Society of America, vol. 35, pp. 225-266.
31. 2- substituted schwertmannite. Physica B 208/209, 481-483.
32. Webster, J.G., Swedlund, P.J., Webster, K.S., 1998. Trace metal adsorption onto an acid mine drainage Fe(III) oxyhydroxysulphate. Environ. Sci. Technol. 32, 1361-1368.
33. Yu, J., Heo, B., Choi, I., Cho, J., Chang, H., 1999. Apparent solubilities of schwertmannite and ferrihydrite in natural stream waters polluted by mine drainage. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 63, 3407-3416.