Geochemical and mineralogical zoning of high-sulfide mine-waste at the Berikul mine-site, Kemerovo region, Russia

Canadian Mineralogist

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1141-1156

  Sidenko, Nikolay V ^a   Lazareva, Elena V ^a   Bortnikova, Svetlana B ^a   Kireev, Albert D ^a   Sherriff, Barbara L ^b  

^a SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Berikul gold mine; Copper; Jarosite; Kemerovo region; Lead; Melanterite; Mine waste; Russia; Sequential extraction; Sulfide oxidation; Zinc

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; ARSENIC; COPPER; EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; EXTRACTION; GOLD MINES; LEAD; OXIDATION; PH EFFECTS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SULFUR DEPOSITS; ZINC;

COPRECIPITATION; GEOCHEMICAL ZONING; HIGH-SULFIDE MINE-WASTE; JAROSITE; MELANTERITE; MINERALOGICAL ZONING; NEUTRALIZATION; SEQUENTIAL EXTRACTION; SULFIDE OXIDATION;

TAILINGS;

ELEMENT MOBILITY; HEAVY METAL; MINE WASTE; SULFIDE;

EURASIA; KEMEROVO; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 29244441715     PISSN: 00084476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gscanmin.43.4.1141     Document Type: Article

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