Natural factors and mining activity bearings on the water quality of the Choapa basin, North Central Chile: Insights on the role of mafic volcanic rocks in the buffering of the acid drainage process

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 181, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 69-82

  Parra, Amparo ^a   Oyarzún, Jorge ^b   Maturana, Hugo ^b   Kretschmer, Nicole ^c   Meza, Francisco ^d   Oyarzún, Ricardo ^b  

^a Fundacion Chile   (Chile)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOLOGÍA   (Chile)

^c CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS EN ZONAS ÁRIDAS CEAZA   (Chile)

^d INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES AGROPECUARIAS   (Chile)

Author keywords

Acid rock drainage; Andean mining; Drainage geochemistry; Hydrothermal alteration; Water quality

Indexed keywords

ACID DRAINAGE; ACID ROCK DRAINAGE; ANDEAN MINING; CENTRAL CHILE; CHEMICAL DATA; COPPER CONTENT; CU CONTENT; FINE FRACTION; HOST ROCKS; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATIONS; MINING ACTIVITIES; MINING OPERATIONS; MONITORING STATIONS; NATURAL FACTORS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PORPHYRY COPPER DEPOSITS; RIVER BASINS; STREAM WATER;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CHLORINE; COPPER; COPPER DEPOSITS; DEPOSITS; MINERALOGY; MINING; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVERS; ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

CATCHMENTS;

ACID; ARSENIC; BICARBONATE; CHLORIDE; COPPER; IRON; PROTON; SULFATE;

COPPER; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GEOCHEMISTRY; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; MINING; ORE DEPOSIT; PORPHYRY; RIVER POLLUTION; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; CHILE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOCHEMISTRY; MAFIC VOLCANIC ROCK; MINING; PH; QUALITY CONTROL; RIVER BASIN; ROCK; SEDIMENT; STREAM (RIVER); WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

BUFFERS; CHILE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MINING; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

CHILE; CHOAPA RIVER; COQUIMBO;

EID: 80054760649     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-010-1814-8     Document Type: Article

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