A half-century of environmental mineral formation on a pyrite-bearing waste dump in the mátra mountains, Hungary

Canadian Mineralogist

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 509-524

  Farkas, Izabella M ^a   Weiszburg, Tamás G ^a   Pekker, Péter ^a   Kuzmann, Ernó ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

B nyab rc; Environmental mineralogy; Gy ngy soroszi; Hungary; Jarosite group minerals; Pyrite oxidation; Secondary sulfates

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MINERALOGY; HUNGARY; JAROSITE-GROUP MINERALS; PYRITE OXIDATION; SECONDARY SULFATES;

BARIUM; CALCITE; CARBONATE MINERALS; CLAY MINERALS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FELDSPAR; GYPSUM; IRON ORES; LANDFORMS; LIQUID NITROGEN; LIQUIDS; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MINE SHAFTS; MINERALOGY; MINES; MINING; MOLYBDENUM; OXIDATION; OXIDE MINERALS; POLLUTION; PYRITES; QUARTZ; SILICATE MINERALS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SULFATE MINERALS; SULFIDE MINERALS; SUPERPARAMAGNETISM; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; ZINC; ZINC SULFIDE;

MINERALS;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; JAROSITE; MINE WASTE; MINERAL DEPOSIT; PYRITE; SAMPLING;

CARPATHIANS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; HUNGARY; MATRA MOUNTAINS;

EID: 69949137643     PISSN: 00084476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3749/canmin.47.3.509     Document Type: Article

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