Secondary mineralogy and microtextures of weathered sulfides and manganoan carbonates in mine waste-rock dumps, with implications for heavy-metal fixation

American Mineralogist

Volumn 88, Issue 11-12 PART 2, 2003, Pages 1933-1942

  Jeong, Gi Young ^a   Lee, Byoung Yoon ^a  

^a Andong National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HEAVY METALS; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; PYRITES; SULFATE MINERALS; WEATHERING; ZINC COMPOUNDS; ZINC SULFIDE;

BACKSCATTERED ELECTRON IMAGING; IRON OXYHYDROXIDES; MICROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; MINE WASTE ROCKS; PLUMBOJAROSITES; RELATIVE RESISTANCE; SEQUENTIAL EXTRACTION; WASTE ROCK DUMPS;

LEAD COMPOUNDS;

CARBONATE; ELEMENT MOBILITY; HEAVY METAL; MANGANESE; MINE WASTE; MINERAL ALTERATION; MINERALOGY; OXIDATION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SULFIDE; WEATHERING;

EID: 0347723774     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am-2003-11-1236     Document Type: Article

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