Mobility and speciation of rare earth elements in acid minesoils and geochemical implications for river waters in the southwestern Iberian margin

Geoderma

Volumn 149, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 393-401

  Fernandez Caliani J C ^a   Barba Brioso, C ^b   De la Rosa, J D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acid mine drainage; Iberian Pyrite Belt; Minesoils; Rare earth elements; Soil water interaction

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED MINES; ACIDITY; ACIDS; CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CHEMICAL SPECIATION; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DISSOLUTION; DRAINAGE; GADOLINIUM; LANDFORMS; METAL IONS; METAL RECOVERY; MINES; MINING; PYRITES; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; SMELTING; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; WATERSHEDS; YTTERBIUM;

ABANDONED MINE LANDS; ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ACID SOLUTIONS; ACID SULFATE SOILS; ACID SULFATES; AQUEOUS SPECIES; COMPETITIVE EFFECTS; FLUVIAL SYSTEMS; FREE METAL IONS; GEOCHEMICAL SIGNATURES; IBERIAN PYRITE BELT; IRON OXY-HYDROXIDES; MINE SITES; MINESOILS; NEUTRAL SOILS; REE GEOCHEMISTRIES; RIVER WATERS; SOIL SAMPLES; SOIL SOLUTIONS; SOIL-WATER INTERACTION; SOLID LIQUIDS; SPECIATION CALCULATIONS; STRONG ACIDS; SULFATE COMPLEXES; SURFACE COATINGS; SW SPAIN; THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDES; WATER-SOIL INTERACTIONS;

EXTRACTION;

ABANDONED LAND; ABANDONED MINE; ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ACIDITY; ALUMINUM; DISSOLUTION; ELEMENT MOBILITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; LIGAND; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVER WATER; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL WATER; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); SULFATE; WATERSHED;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; IBERIAN MARGIN;

EID: 59749106089     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2009.01.004     Document Type: Article

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