Metal speciation and bioavailability in acid mine drainage from a high Arctic coal mine waste rock pile: Temporal variations assessed through high-resolution water sampling, geochemical modelling and DGT

Cold Regions Science and Technology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 89-96

  Søndergaard, Jens ^a   Elberling, Bo ^a,b   Asmund, Gert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^c NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

AMD; Arctic; Bioavailability; DGT; Metal speciation; WHAM VI

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING; ALUMINUM; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL SPECIATION; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COAL; COAL MINES; COPPER; COPPER ALLOYS; DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; DISSOLUTION; DRAINAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FORECASTING; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MINES; MINING; MINING ENGINEERING; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; PILES; RUNOFF; SPRINGS (COMPONENTS); THICK FILMS; VEGETATION; WATER;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; AMD; ARCTIC; BIOAVAILABILITY; CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUMS; COLD REGIONS; DGT; DIFFUSIVE GRADIENTS IN THIN-FILMS; DISSOLVED METAL CONCENTRATIONS; DISSOLVED METALS; HIGH ARCTIC; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; IN-SITU MEASUREMENTS; METAL FRACTIONS; METAL SPECIATION; MINE WASTES; MODEL RESULTS; ORGANIC COMPLEXATION; TEMPORAL VARIATIONS; WATER SAMPLINGS; WHAM VI;

METALS;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; BIOAVAILABILITY; COLD REGION; COMPLEXATION; DISSOLVED INORGANIC MATTER; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GEOCHEMISTRY; METAL; MINE WASTE; PH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); WASTE DISPOSAL; WATER;

EID: 52749087292     PISSN: 0165232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2008.01.003     Document Type: Article

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