Uranium recovery and manganese removal from acid mine drainage

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 111, Issue , 2008, Pages 465-474

  Ladeira, A C Q ^a   Gonalves, C R ^a  

^a CDTN Center for the Development of Nuclear Technology   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acid mine; Adsorption; Manganese; Removal; Uranium

Indexed keywords

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORPTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; MANGANESE; PH; URANIUM;

EID: 58849083731     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/WP080451     Document Type: Article

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