Acid mine drainage treatment with dunite

Desalination and Water Treatment

Volumn 16, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 129-133

  Demetriou, Antri ^a   Lysandrou, Michaela ^b   Charalambides, Antonios ^b   Pashalidis, Ioannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b GEM Analysis   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Acid base properties; AMD; Dunite; Heavy metals; Removal

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954229455     PISSN: 19443994     EISSN: 19443986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5004/dwt.2010.1049     Document Type: Article

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