Evaluation of the impacts of mine drainage from a coal waste pile on the surrounding environment at Smolnica, southern Poland

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 165, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 233-254

  Sracek, Ondra ^a,b   Gzyl, Grzegorz ^c   Frolik, Adam ^c   Kubica, Janusz ^c   Bzowski, Zbigniew ^c   Gwoździewicz, Michal ^c   Kura, Karol ^c  

^a OPV Sro (Protection of Groundwater Ltd)   (Czech Republic)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c CENTRAL MINING INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Coal waste pile; Equilibration with atmosphere; Mine drainage; River contamination; River sediments

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM SEDIMENTS; COAL WASTES; EQUILIBRATION WITH ATMOSPHERE; FERRIC OXIDE; GEOCHEMICAL MODELING; GROUND WATER RECHARGE; HIGH CONCENTRATION; HYDRAULIC HEADS; KINETIC PROCESS; MINE DRAINAGE; MINING WATER; MN OXIDES; NEAR-NEUTRAL PH; ODRA RIVER; RIVER SEDIMENTS; RIVER WATER; SULFATE CONCENTRATIONS; SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT; UNCONFINED AQUIFERS; UPWARD FLOW; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER INTERFACE;

AQUIFERS; BARIUM; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COAL; COAL INDUSTRY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONTAMINATION; DRAINAGE; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; GYPSUM; IRON OXIDES; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; MANGANESE OXIDE; MANGANESE REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); MINING; PILES; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SODIUM; SODIUM SULFATE; STRONTIUM;

RIVER POLLUTION;

BARIUM; CALCIUM SULFATE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHLORIDE; FERRIC OXIDE; GROUND WATER; HYDROXIDE; IRON; MANGANESE; METAL; OXYGEN; RIVER WATER; SODIUM; SULFATE;

COAL MINE; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GROUNDWATER; IRON; MANGANESE; MINE DRAINAGE; RIVER POLLUTION; SULFATE; WATER CHEMISTRY;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ACID PRECIPITATION; AQUIFER; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; COAL MINING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HYDRAULIC PERMEABILITY; OXYGEN TENSION; PH MEASUREMENT; RIVER; SEDIMENT; SPECIES CONSERVATION; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION;

COAL MINING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; POLAND; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

ODER RIVER; POLAND; SLASKIE; SMOLNICA;

EID: 77952290170     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-009-0941-6     Document Type: Article

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