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ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF MINE WASTES


Editors
J.L. Jambor, D.W. Blowes, A.I.M. Ritchie

TABLE OF CONTENTS


PREFACE iii

1. CHALLENGES POSED BY METAL LEACHING AND ACID ROCK DRAINAGE, AND APPROACHES USED TO ADDRESS THEM
    1 - W.A. Price

2. GEOENVIRONMENTAL MODELS OF MINERAL DEPOSITS: EXAMPLES FROM MASSIVE SULFIDE AND GOLD DEPOSITS
    11 - R.R. Seal II & J.M. Hammarstrom

3. HYDROLOGIC AND GEOCHEMICAL TRANSPORT PROCESSES IN MINE WASTE ROCKS
    51 - L. Smith & R. Beckie

4. OXIDATION AND GAS TRANSPORT IN PILES OF SULFIDIC MATERIAL
    73 - A.I. M. Ritchie

5. MILL TAILINGS: HYDROGEOLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY
    95 - D.W. Blowes, C.J. Ptacek & J. Jurjovec

6. MINE-WASTE MINERALOGY AND MINERALOGICAL PERSPECTIVES OF ACID - BASE ACCOUNTING
    117 J.L. Jambor

7. DEVELOPMENTS IN HUMIDITY-CELL TESTS AND THEIR APPLICATION
    147 - K.A. Lapakko

8. APPLICATION OF RIETVELD ANALYSIS TO ENVIRONMENTAL MINERALOGY
    165 - M. Raudsepp

9. NOVEL SPECTROSCOPIC TECHNIQUES TO CHARACTERIZE MINE WASTE
    181 - C.G. Weisener

10. THE MICROBIOLOGY OF ACID MINE DRAINAGE
    203 - W.D. Gould & A. Kapoor

11. EFFECTS OF MICROBIOLOGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL INTERACTIONS IN MINE DRAINAGE
    227 - D.K. Nordstrom

12. GEOCHEMISTRY OF CONCENTRATED WATERS AT MINE-WASTE SITES
    239 - C.J. Ptacek & W.D. Blowes

13. USE OF FIELD-SCALE EXPERIMENTS AND REACTIVE SOLUTE-TRANSPORT MODELLING TO EVALUATE REMEDIATION ALTERNATIVES IN STREAMS AFFECTED BY ACID MINE DRAINAGE
    261 - B.A. Kimball, R.L. Runkel & K. Walton-Day

14. ADVANCES IN REACTIVE-TRANSPORT MODELLING OF CONTAMINANT RELEASE AND ATTENUATION FROM MINE-WASTE DEPOSITS
    283 - U. Mayer, D.W. Blowes & E.O. Frind

15. STABLE-ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY OF MINE WATERS AND RELATED SOLIDS
    303 - R.R. Seal II

16. PASSIVE AND ACTIVE TREATMENT OF MINE DRAINAGE
    335 - K. Walton-Day

17. TREATMENT OF MINE DRAINAGE USING PERMEABLE REACTIVE MATERIALS
    361 - D.W. Blowes, J.G. Bain, D.J.A. Smyth & C.J. Ptacek

18. THE DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE OF MINE-WASTE COVER SYSTEMS
    377 - G.W. Wilson

19. THE RUM JUNGLE MINE - A CASE STUDY
    385 - A.I.M. Ritchie & J.W. Bennett

20. EXTREME ACID MINE DRAINAGE FROM A PYRITIC MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSIT: THE IRON MOUNTAIN END-MEMBER
    407 - C.N. Alpers, D.K. Nordstrom & J. Spitzley