Integrated geophysical and geochemical study on AMD generation at the Haveri Au-Cu mine tailings, SW Finland

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1435-1447

  Placencia Gómez, Edmundo ^a   Parviainen, Annika ^a,b   Hokkanen, Tero ^a   Loukola Ruskeeniemi, Kirsti ^c  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Acid mine drainage; Electrical resistivity; Finland; Haveri; Sulfide oxidation; Tailings

Indexed keywords

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; FINLAND; HAVERI; SULFIDE OXIDATION;

ACIDS; ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; COPPER; CORE ANALYSIS; CORE DRILLING; DRAINAGE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GEOPHYSICS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER GEOCHEMISTRY; LEAD; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MANGANESE REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); OXIDATION; SOILS; TOMOGRAPHY; WATER CONTENT; ZINC;

ZINC SULFIDE;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; BEDROCK; BIOMONITORING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DRILLING; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; FRACTURE ZONE; GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOPHYSICS; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HEAVY METAL; HEAVY MINERAL; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MINE WASTE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OXIDATION; PH; PHREATIC ZONE; PLUME; POREWATER; SILTY CLAY; SULFIDE; SURFACE WATER; TAILINGS; TOMOGRAPHY; VADOSE ZONE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

FINLAND;

EID: 77957315873     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-010-0459-9     Document Type: Article

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