Removal of selenium oxyanions from mine waters utilizing elemental iron and galvanically coupled metals

Proceedings of the Jan D. Miller Symposium - Innovations in Natural Resource Processing

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 299-313

  Twidwell, Larry ^a   McCloskey, Jay ^b   Joyce, Helen ^b   Dahlgren, Eric ^a   Hadden, Andy ^c  

^a MONTANA TECH OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b MSE Technology Applications Incorporated   (United States)

^c Newmont Mining   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLED METALS; MINE WASTEWATER; SELENIUM OXYANIONS; SELENIUM REDUCTION;

REDUCTION; SELENIUM; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

NEGATIVE IONS;

EID: 33745637239     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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