Impact of redox conditions on arsenic mobilization from tailings in a wetland with neutral drainage

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 6297-6303

  Beauchemin, Suzanne ^a   Kwong, Y T John ^a  

^a Natural Resources Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLUTION; DRAINAGE; OXIDATION; REDOX REACTIONS; TAILINGS; WETLANDS;

ARSENIC MOBILIZATION; REDOX CONDITIONS; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY (XAS);

ARSENIC;

ARSENIC; COBALT; SILVER;

ARSENIC; DISSOLUTION; DRAINAGE; OXIDATION; REDOX REACTIONS; TAILINGS; WETLANDS;

ARSENIC; DISSOLUTION; MINE DRAINAGE; MOBILIZATION; MONITORING; OXIDATION; REDOX CONDITIONS; TAILINGS; WETLAND; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARSENIC POISONING; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; LAND DRAINAGE; METAL RECOVERY; MINING; MOBILIZATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PH MEASUREMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; WATER CONTAMINATION; WETLAND;

ARSENIC; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; ONTARIO; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SOLUBILITY; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WETLANDS;

CANADA; COBALT; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO;

EID: 33750335642     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0609001     Document Type: Article

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