Kinetic control on the formation of tooeleite, schwertmannite and jarosite by Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans strains in an As(III)-rich acid mine water

Chemical Geology

Volumn 265, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 432-441

  Egal, Marion ^a   Casiot, Corinne ^a   Morin, Guillaume ^b   Parmentier, Marc ^c   Bruneel, Odile ^a   Lebrun, Sophie ^b   Elbaz Poulichet, Françoise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^c BRGM   (France)

Author keywords

Acid mine drainage (AMD); Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans; Arsenic; Tooeleite

Indexed keywords

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ARSENIC; ARSENITE; BACTERIUM; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOMINERALIZATION; DISSOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; IRON; JAROSITE; OXIDATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); REACTION KINETICS; SCHWERTMANNITE; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTY;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS;

EID: 67650519876     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2009.05.008     Document Type: Article

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