Estimation of potential pollution of waste mining dumps at Peña del Hierro (Pyrite Belt, SW Spain) as a base for future mitigation actions

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1093-1108

  Romero, A ^a   Gonzalez I ^a   Galan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLUTION; EFFLUENTS; GEOCHEMISTRY; MINERALOGY; POLLUTION DETECTION; PYRITES; TOXIC MATERIALS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

ACID VOLCANIC TUFFS; GRANULOMETRY; MUSCOVITES; ROASTED PYRITE ASHES; WASTE DUMPS;

WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ABANDONED MINE; MINE WASTE; MITIGATION; RIVER POLLUTION; SOIL POLLUTION;

ANDALUCIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; HUELVA [ANDALUCIA]; IBERIAN PENINSULA; IBERIAN PYRITE BELT; RIO TINTO [(RVR) HUELVA]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 33745469010     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2006.03.002     Document Type: Article

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