Remediation of acid mine drainage using metallurgical slags

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 64, Issue , 2014, Pages 15-22

  Name, Tendai ^a   Sheridan, Craig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Acid mine drainage; Basic Oxygen Furnace (BOF) slag; Stainless Steel (SS) slag

Indexed keywords

BASIC OXYGEN CONVERTERS; BATCH REACTORS; DRAINAGE; GROUNDWATER; IRON COMPOUNDS; LIME; REMEDIATION; STAINLESS STEEL; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ADDITIONAL EXPERIMENTS; BASIC OXYGEN FURNACE SLAG; BASIC OXYGEN FURNACE SLAG (BOF); CONTINUOUS FLOW REACTORS; REPLACEMENT STRATEGY; RESIDUAL CONCENTRATIONS; SULFATE CONCENTRATIONS;

SLAGS;

EID: 84898960000     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2014.03.024     Document Type: Article

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