Geochemistry, mineralogy and environmental impact of precipitated efflorescent salts at the Kabwe Cu-Co chemical leaching plant in Zambia

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1815-1824

  Sracek, O ^a,b   Veselovsky F ^c   Kribek B ^c   Malec, J ^c   Jehlicka J ^d  

^a OPV sro ^*  (Czech Republic)

^b PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c CZECH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Czech Republic)

^d CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL LEACHING; CLIMATIC CHANGES; DIFFERENT TIME SCALE; EPSOMITE; FAST DISSOLUTIONS; FIELD DATA; GEOCHEMICAL MODELING; HYDRATED SULFATES; KABWE , ZAMBIA; NA CONTENT; POWDER X RAY DIFFRACTION; SEM; SPECIES CONCENTRATION; SULFATE SALTS; XRF ANALYSIS;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL PLANTS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DISSOLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EXPERIMENTS; GYPSUM; HYDRATES; LEACHING; MAGNESIUM; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; PRECIPITATES; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SALTS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

EVAPORATION;

COBALT; COPPER; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EVAPORATION; GYPSUM; HYDRATION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MAGNESIUM; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SODIUM; SULFATE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE;

CENTRAL PROVINCE [ZAMBIA]; KABWE; ZAMBIA;

EID: 78649449734     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2010.09.008     Document Type: Article

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