Incongruent weathering of Cd and Zn from mine tailings: A column leaching study

Chemical Geology

Volumn 281, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 52-71

  Kossoff, D ^a,b   Hudson Edwards, K A ^a   Dubbin, W E ^b   Alfredsson, M A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bolivia; Cd; Column leaching; Mine tailings; Potos ; Sphalerite; Wurtzite; Zn

Indexed keywords

BOLIVIA; CD; COLUMN LEACHING; MINE TAILINGS; SPHALERITE; WURTZITES; ZN;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL SPECIATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DISSOLUTION; EXPERIMENTS; GROUNDWATER; LEACHING; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; ORGANIC ACIDS; SOIL MECHANICS; SOILS; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; TAILINGS; WEATHERING; WETTING; ZINC SULFIDE;

ZINC;

CADMIUM; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DISSOLUTION; EXTRACTION METHOD; FLOODPLAIN; LEACHING; ORGANIC ACID; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); SPHALERITE; TAILINGS; WEATHERING; ZINC;

BOLIVIA; POTOSI [BOLIVIA];

EID: 78751580444     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2010.11.028     Document Type: Article

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