Natural attenuation of arsenic in soils near a highly contaminated historical mine waste dump

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 414, Issue , 2012, Pages 546-555

  Drahota, Petr ^a   Filippi, Michal ^b   Ettler, Vojtěch ^a   Rohovec, Jan ^b   Mihaljevič, Martin ^a   Šebek, Ondřej ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Contaminated soil; Historical mine waste dump; Long term attenuation

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION CAPACITIES; CO-PRECIPITATED; CONTAMINATED SOILS; CRYSTALLINE GOETHITE; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GEOCHEMICAL MODELLING; HISTORICAL MINE WASTE DUMP; LONG-TERM ATTENUATION; MINE WASTES; NATURAL ATTENUATION; OXYHYDROXIDES; PH-DEPENDENT; PORE WATERS; SOIL PORE WATERS; SOLID PHASIS; TOTAL CONTENT; WASTE SOLUTION;

ADSORPTION; ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; ARSENIC; IRON ORES; SEEPAGE; SOILS; WATER;

SOIL POLLUTION;

ARSENIC; FERRIC HYDROXIDE; FERRIC OXIDE; SOIL WATER;

ADSORPTION; ARSENIC; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; IRON; MINE WASTE; MINERALOGY; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SOIL POLLUTION;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CZECH REPUBLIC; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; MINERALOGY; MINING; PH; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL WATER CONTENT; SOLID; WATER ANALYSIS;

ADSORPTION; ARSENIC; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; CZECH REPUBLIC; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; GROUNDWATER; IRON COMPOUNDS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MINERALS; MINING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; SOIL; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; THERMODYNAMICS; WASTE PRODUCTS;

CZECH REPUBLIC;

EID: 84855559588     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.11.003     Document Type: Article

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