Title: Environmental aspects of mine wastes /
Authors: Jambor, J. L.; Blowes, David W., 1956-; Ritchie, A. I. M.
Publisher: Mineralogical Association of Canada,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Acid mine drainage Environmental aspects.; Tailings (Metallurgy) Environmental aspects.; Mineral industries Waste disposal Environmental aspects.
Contents: Challenges posed by metal leaching and acid rock drainage, and approaches used to address them / W.A. Price -- Geoenvironmental models of mineral deposits : examples from massive sulfide and gold deposits / R.R. Seal II & J.M. Hammarstrom -- Hydrologic and geochemical transport processes in mine waste rocks / L. Smith & R. Beckie -- Oxidation and gas transport in piles of sulfidic material / A.I.M. Ritchie -- Mill tailings : hydrogeology and geochemistry / D.W. Blowes, C.J. Ptacek & J. Jurjovec -- Mine-waste mineralogy and mineralogical perspectives of acid-base accounting / J.L. Jambor -- Developments in humidity-cell tests and their application / K.A. Lapakko -- Application of Rietveld analysis to environmental mineralogy / M. Raudsepp -- Novel spectroscopic techniques to characterize mine waste / C.G. Weisener -- The microbiology of acid mine drainage / W.D. Gould & A. Kapoor -- Effects of microbiological and geochemical interactions in mine drainage / D.K. Nordstrom -- Geochemistry of concentrated waters at mine-waste sites / C.J. Ptacek & W.D. Blowes -- Use of field-scale experiments and reactive solute-transport modelling to evaluate remediation alternatives in streams affected by acid mine drainage / B.A. Kimball, R.L. Runkel & K. Walton-Day -- Advances in reactive-transport modelling of contaminant release and attenuation from mine-waste deposits / U. Mayer, D.W. Blowes & E.O. Frind -- Stable-isotope geochemistry of mine waters and related solids / R.R. Seal II -- Passive and active treatment of mine drainage / K. Walton-Day -- Treatment of mine drainage using permeable reactive materials / D.W. Blowes [and others] -- The design and performance of mine-waste cover systems / G.W. Wilson -- The Rum Jungle mine -- a case study / A.I.M. Ritchie & J.W. Bennett -- Extreme acid mine drainage from a pyritic massive sulfide deposit : the Iron Mountain end-member / C.N. Alpers, D.K. Nordstrom & J. Spitzley.