Mobility of trace and potentially harmful elements in the environment from high sulfur Indian coal mines

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1621-1631

  Baruah, B P ^a   Khare, Puja ^a  

^a CSIR NORTH EAST INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID LEACHING; ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ACID PRODUCING; COAL SAMPLE; CRITICAL LOAD; ENRICHMENT FACTORS; IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT; LEACHATES; LEACHING EXPERIMENTS; LEACHING TIME; MINE DRAINAGE; MINE SITE; MINE WATERS; POLLUTION INDEX; REGULATORY LEVEL; SOIL AND SEDIMENT;

ADSORPTION; CHROMIUM; COAL; COAL INDUSTRY; DRAINAGE; EFFLUENTS; GROUNDWATER; LEACHING; LEAD; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; SEDIMENTS; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOILS; SULFUR; TRACE ELEMENTS; WEATHERING; ZINC;

COAL MINES;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ADSORPTION; ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CHROMIUM; COAL MINE; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LEACHATE; LEACHING; MOBILITY; PH; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SOIL POLLUTION; SULFUR;

INDIA; MEGHALAYA;

EID: 77958455763     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2010.08.010     Document Type: Article

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