Stable hydrogen and oxygen isotope composition of waters from mine tailings in different climatic environments

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1870-1876

  Spangenberg, Jorge E ^a   Dold, Bernhard ^a   Vogt, Marie Louise ^a   Pfeifer, Hans Rudolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; EVAPORATION; HYDROLOGY; OXIDATION; TAILINGS; WATER QUALITY;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION;

WATER ANALYSIS;

FERRIC HYDROXIDE; HYDROGEN; ISOTOPE; OXYGEN; SULFATE; WATER;

DIFFUSION; EVAPORATION; HYDROLOGY; OXIDATION; TAILINGS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATIC REGION; HYDRATION; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; IMPOUNDMENT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; METEORIC WATER; MINE WASTE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; POREWATER; TAILINGS; TRACER; WATER VAPOR; WATER-ROCK INTERACTION;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY ZONE ELECTROPHORESIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIFFUSION; EVAPORATION; HYDROLOGY; MINING; RADIOISOTOPE DIAGNOSIS; WATER ANALYSIS;

CHILE; CLIMATE; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MINING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; WATER POLLUTION;

CHILE; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33947387931     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es061654w     Document Type: Article

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