Role of organic acids in promoting colloidal transport of mercury from mine tailings

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 7869-7874

  Slowey, Aaron J ^a   Johnson, Stephen B ^a   Rytuba, James J ^b   Brown Jr , Gordon E ^a,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COLLOIDS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DISSOLUTION; EXPLOSIVES; MERCURY (METAL); ORGANIC ACIDS; SOILS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

COLUMN EFFLUENT; HG MINES; MOBILIZED PARTICLES; VEGETATED MINE WASTE;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ALUNITE; CARBOXYLIC ACID; CITRIC ACID; FERRIC HYDROXIDE; FERROUS SULFIDE; IRON DERIVATIVE; JAROSITE; MERCURY; MERCURY SULFIDE; OXALIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

MERCURY (ELEMENT); ORGANIC ACID; TAILINGS;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COLLOID; EFFLUENT; MINE TAILING; MINING; MOBILIZATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PARTICULATE MATTER; PH; PHOTON CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURE SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; CITRIC ACID; COLLOIDS; MERCURY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MINING; OXALIC ACID; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WASTE PRODUCTS;

EID: 26944456309     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0504643     Document Type: Article

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