Long-term monitoring of waste-rock weathering at the Antamina mine, Peru.

This study demonstrates that a reliable prediction of the timing and quality of waste-rock drainage on practice-relevant spatiotemporal scales requires a quantitative understanding of the prevailing in-situ porewater conditions, secondary mineralogy, and spatial distribution of reactive waste-rock fractions in composite piles.
PMID: 30408882 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Chemosphere - November 10, 2018 Category: Chemistry Authors: Vriens B, Peterson H, Laurenzi L, Smith L, Aranda C, Mayer KU, Beckie RD Tags: Chemosphere Source Type: research