Geochemical processes influencing arsenic mobility at Bullendale historic gold mine, Otago, New Zealand

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 53, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 129-142

  Haffert, L ^a   Craw, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Arsenic mobility; Historic mine; Mesothermal; Process residue; Secondary arsenic minerals

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; ARSENATE; ARSENIC; ARSENOPYRITE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CRYSTALLIZATION; ELEMENT MOBILITY; FERRIHYDRITE; GOLD MINE; MINERALIZATION; PH; REACTION KINETICS; SECONDARY MINERAL;

NEW ZEALAND; OTAGO; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 78149349151     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2010.498785     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. American Public Health Association (APHA) 2005. 3125-B. Standard methods for the examination of water and wastewater. Washington DC, American Public Health Association.
2. Australian and New Zealand Environmental and Conservation Council (ANZECC) 2000. Australian and New Zealand guidelines for freshwater and marine water quality, paper no. 4. Canberra, Australian and New Zealand Environmental and Conservation Council.
3. Begbie MJ, Craw D 2006. Gold mineralisation in the ShotoverMacetown area, northwest Otago. In: Christie AB, Brathwaite RL eds. Geology and Exploration of New Zealand Mineral Deposits, Monograph 25. Melbourne, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Pp. 299-304.
4. Cooper AF, Barreiro BA, Kimbrough DL, Mattinson JM 1987. Lamprophyrc dike intrusion and the age of the Alpine Fault, New Zealand. Geology 15: 941-944.
5. Craw D 1989. Shallow-level, late-stage gold mineralisation in Sawyers Creek, Shotover valley, northwest Otago, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 32: 385-393.
6. Craw D 2001. Tectonic controls on gold deposits and their environmental impact, New Zealand. Journal of Geochemical Exploration 73: 43-56.
7. Craw D 2002. Geochemistry of late metamorphic hydrothermal alteration and graphitisation of host rock, Macraes gold mine, Otago Schist, New Zealand. Chemical Geology 191: 127-275.
8. Craw D, Norris RJ 1991. Metamorphic Au-W veins and regional tectonics: mineralisation throughout the uplift history of the Haast Schist, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 34: 373-383.
9. Craw D, Chappel D, Reay A, Walls D 2000. Mobilisation and attenuation of arsenic around gold mines, east Otago, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 43: 373-383.
10. Craw D, Pacheco L 2002. Mobilisation and bioavailability of arsenic around mesothermal gold deposits in a semiarid environment, Otago, New Zealand. The Scientific World Journal 2: 308-319.
11. Craw D, Falconer D, Youngson JH 2003. Environmental arsenopyrite stability and dissolution: theory, experiment, and field observations. Chemical Geology 199: 71-82.
12. Craw D, Wilson N, Ashley PM 2004. Geochemical controls on the environmental mobility of Sb and As in mesothermal antimony and gold deposits. Transactions of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy 113: B3-B10.
13. Craw D, Begbie M, MacKenzie D 2006. Structural controls on tertiary orogenic gold mineralization during initiation of a mountain belt, New Zealand. Mineralium Deposita 41: 645-659.
14. Craw D, Rufaut CG, Hammitt S, Clearwater S, Smith CM 2007. Geological controls on natural ecosystem recovery on mine waste in southern New Zealand. Environmental Geology 51: 1389-1400.
15. 2O. American Mineralogist 70: 838-844.
16. Foy CD, Chancy RL, White MC 1978. The physiology of metal toxicity in plants. Annual Review of Plant Physiolology 29: 511-566.
17. Haffert L, Craw D 2008a. Mineralogical controls on environmental mobility of As (III) and (V) from historic mine processing residues, New Zealand. Applied Geochemistry 23: 1467-1483.
18. Haffert L, Craw D 2008b. Processes of attenuation of dissolved arsenic downstream from historic gold mine sites, New Zealand. Science of the Total Environment 405: 286-300.
19. Haffert L, Craw D, Pope J 2010. Climatic and compositional controls on secondary arsenic mineral formation in higharsenic mine wastes, South Island, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 53: 91-101.
20. Hamel J 2001. The archaeology of Otago. Wellington, Department of Conservation.
21. Hewlett L, Craw D, Black A 2005. Comparison of trace clement contents of discharges from adjacent coal and gold mines, Reefton, New Zealand. Marine and Freshwater Research 56: 983-995.
22. Hutchison I, Ellison RD 1992. Mine waste management, California Mining Association. Chelsea MI, Lewis Publishers.
23. 2O: new data and further discussion. American Mineralogist 73: 850-854.
24. Langmuir D, Mahoney J, Rowson J 2006. Solubility products of amorphous ferric arsenate and crystalline scorodite (FeAsO4·2H2O) and their application to arsenic behaviour in buried mine tailings. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 70: 2942-2956.
25. MacKenzie DJ, Craw D, Begbie M 2007. Mineralogy, geochemistry, and structural controls of a disseminated gold-bearing alteration halo around the schist-hosted Bullendale orogenic gold deposit, New Zealand. Journal of Geochemical Exploration 93: 160-176.
26. MacKinnon TC 1983. Origin of the Torlesse terrane and coeval rocks, South Island, New Zealand. Geological Society of America Bulletin 94: 967-985.
27. Mortimer N 1993. Geological map of the Otago Schist and adjacent rocks, I: 500000, Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences Map 7. Wellington, New Zealand, Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences.
28. Mortimer N 2000. Metamorphic discontinuities in orogenic belts: example of the garnet-biotite-albite zone in the Otago Schist, New Zealand. International Journal of Earth Sciences 89: 295-306.
29. Paktunc D, Dutrizac J, Gertsman V 2008. Synthesis and phase transformations involving scorodite, ferric arsenate and arsenical ferrihydrite: implications for arsenic mobility. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 72: 2649-2672.
30. Petchey P 2002. Archaeological survey of the Arrow River and Macetown, Otago. Wellington, New Zealand, Department of Conservation.
31. Petchey PG 2006. Gold and electricity. Archaeological survey of Bullendale, Otago. Wellington, Science and Technical Publishing, Department of Conservation.
32. Roddick-Lanzilotta AJ, McQuillan AJ, Craw D 2002. Infrared spectroscopic characterisation of arsenate (V) ion adsorption from mine waters, Macraes mine, New Zealand. Applied Geochemistry 17: 445-454.
33. Rosen M. Jones S. Controls on the chemical composition of groundwater from alluvial aquifers in the Wanaka and Wakatipu basins, Central Otago, New Zealand Hydrogeology Journal 1998 6 2 264-281 Rosen M, Jones S 1998. Controls on the chemical composition of groundwater from alluvial aquifers in the Wanaka and Wakatipu basis, Central Otago, New Zealand. Hydrogeology Journal 6: 264-284. (Pubitemid 128546181)
34. Salzsauler KA, Sidenko NV, Sheriff BL 2005. Arsenic mobility in alteration products of sulfide-rich, arsenopyrite-bearing mine wastes, Snow Lake, Manitoba, Canada. Applied Geochemistry 20: 2303-2314.
35. Smedley PL, Kinniburgh DG 2002. A review of the source, behaviour and distribution of arsenic in natural waters. Applied Geochemistry 17: 517-568.
36. Sobek A, Schuller WA, Freeman JR, Smith RM 1978. Field and laboratory methods applicable to oberburden and minesoils. Cincinnati, Ohio, US Environmental Protection Agency. EPA-600/2-78-054.
37. United States Environmental Protection Agency (US-EPA) 1989. Exposure factors handbook. Washington DC, Office of Health and Environmental Assessment. EPA/600/8-89/043.
38. United States Environmental Protection Agency (US-EPA) 1994. Methods for the determination of metals in environmental samples, Supplement 1. EPA 600-R94-111.
39. Williams GJ 1974. Economic geology of New Zealand. Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Monograph 4. Melbourne, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.