Laboratory and Field-scale Evaluation of Low-pH Fe(II) Oxidation at Hughes Borehole, Portage, Pennsylvania

Mine Water and the Environment

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 239-247

  DeSa, Trinh C ^a   Brown, Juliana F ^a   Burgos, William D ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Acid mine drainage; Fe(II) oxidation; Metal oxidation

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649839948     PISSN: 10259112     EISSN: 16161068     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10230-010-0105-5     Document Type: Article

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