Factors affecting the transformation of a pyritic tailing: Scaled-up column tests

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 118, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 35-43

  Garcia C ^a   Ballester, A ^b   Gonzalez F ^b   Blazquez M L ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD ALFONSO X EL SABIO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Predictive weathering tests; Pyritic tailing; Scaled up column model

Indexed keywords

ACIDITY; CATALYSIS; EFFLUENTS; EXTRAPOLATION; OXIDATION; PH EFFECTS; TEST FACILITIES; WATER QUALITY; WEATHERING;

FLOTATION PLANT; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MINERAL OXIDATION; PYRITIC TAILING;

ORE TAILINGS;

METHACRYLIC ACID; MINERAL; OXYGEN; PYRITE; SULFIDE;

MINE WASTE; POLLUTION MONITORING; TAILINGS; WATER QUALITY; WEATHERING;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ACIDITY; ARTICLE; EFFLUENT; FLOTATION; LEACHING; OXIDATION; PH MEASUREMENT; PREDICTION; SCALE UP; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WEATHERING;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORECASTING; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IRON; MINING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SULFIDES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS;

ANDALUCIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; HUELVA [ANDALUCIA]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; WORLD;

EID: 13844321252     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2004.10.022     Document Type: Article

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