Investigating the potential for ongoing pollution from an abandoned pyrite mine

Mine Water and the Environment

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 2-13

  Adams, Russell ^a   Ahlfeld, David ^a   Sengupta, Ashmita ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

Abandoned mine; Acid mine drainage; Geochemical tracers; Iron; Massachusetts; Pyrite mine; Sulphate; Waste rock

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947432460     PISSN: 10259112     EISSN: 16161068     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10230-007-0144-8     Document Type: Article

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