Impact of uranium mines closure and abandonment on groundwater quality

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 7590-7602

  Rapantova, Nada ^a   Licbinska, Monika ^a   Babka, Ondrej ^a   Grmela, Arnost ^a   Pospisil, Pavel ^a  

^a VSB TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF OSTRAVA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Environmental impact; Geochemical modelling; Mine closure; Mine water; Radium; The first flush; Uranium

Indexed keywords

GROUND WATER; METAL; RADIUM; URANIUM;

ABANDONED MINE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEWATERING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; MINE DRAINAGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RADIUM; RADIUM ISOTOPE; SPATIAL VARIATION; STRATIFICATION; URANIUM; WATER LEVEL; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CZECH REPUBLIC; ENVIRONMENT; MINING; STATISTICS; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

CZECH REPUBLIC; ENVIRONMENT; GROUNDWATER; METALS; MINING; RADIUM; URANIUM; WATER POLLUTANTS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

CZECH REPUBLIC;

EID: 84885924927     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-012-1340-z     Document Type: Article

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