Climatic and compositional controls on secondary arsenic mineral formation in high-arsenic mine wastes, South Island, New Zealand

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 53, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 91-101

  Haffert, L ^a   Craw, D ^a   Pope, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Bukovskyite; Kankite; Mine; Pharmacosiderite; Scorodite; Zykaite

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLUTION; FORMATION MECHANISM; GOLD MINE; MICROCLIMATE; MINE WASTE; MINERAL; ORE DEPOSIT; OXIDATION; PH; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); REMOBILIZATION; SECONDARY MINERAL;

NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 78149305479     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2010.498403     Document Type: Article

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