Water quality evolution in flooded and unflooded coal mine-pools

7th International Conference on Acid Rock Drainage 2006, ICARD - Also Serves as the 23rd Annual Meetings of the American Society of Mining and Reclamation

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1565-1581

  Perry, Eric F ^a   Rauch, Henry W ^b  

^a Office of Surface Mining   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; ALUMINUM; AQUIFERS; FLOODS; HYDROCHEMISTRY; LAKES; OXIDATION; PYRITES; REDOX REACTIONS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; WATER QUALITY;

CHEMICAL CONCENTRATIONS; EQUILIBRIUM CALCULATION; INITIAL COMPOSITION; MINE WATER CHEMISTRIES; MINERAL DISSOLUTION; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PYRITE OXIDATION; SULFIDE OXIDATION;

COAL MINES;

EID: 78149349927     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.21000/jasmr06021565     Document Type: Conference Paper

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