A mineralogical, geochemical, and microbiogical assessment of the antimony- and arsenic-rich neutral mine drainage tailings near Pezinok, Slovakia

American Mineralogist

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-13

  Majzlan, Juraj ^a   Lalinská, Bronislava ^b   Chovan, Martin ^b   Bläß, Ulrich ^a   Brecht, Björn ^c   Göttlicher, Jörg ^d   Steininger, Ralph ^d   Hug, Katrin ^c   Ziegler, Sibylle ^c   Gescher, Johannes ^c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antimony; Electron microprobe; Iron oxides; Microbial diversity; Weathering products; X ray microdiffraction

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY; ARSENIC; ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; GEOCHEMISTRY; NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ORES; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAYS;

ELECTRON MICROPROBES; EXTREME ENVIRONMENT; HYDROUS FERRIC OXIDES; IRON OXYHYDROXIDES; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MINERALOGICAL COMPOSITIONS; PHYLOGENETIC GROUPS; X RAY MICRODIFFRACTION;

IRON OXIDES;

ANTIMONY; ARSENIC; ASSESSMENT METHOD; ELECTRON PROBE ANALYSIS; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOMICROBIOLOGY; IRON OXIDE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MINE DRAINAGE; MINERALOGY; TAILINGS DAM; WEATHERING; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

BRATISLAVSKY; PEZINOK; SLOVAKIA;

EID: 79251574636     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: 19453027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am.2011.3556     Document Type: Article

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