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Acid mine drainage, rock drainage, and acid sulfate soils : causes, assessment, prediction, prevention, and remediation / edited by James A. Jacobs, Jay H. Lehr, Stephen M. Testa ; Pamela S. Blicker [and eighteen others], contributors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Acid mine drainage.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (502 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Written to help readers understand the formation of AMD, Acid Mine Drainage addresses the generation of acidic waters usually from both used and abandoned coal or metal mines. Offering the most up-to-date ideas on metals remediation, which makes finding control methods relatively easy, the text provides a section on legal and policy issues and details the causes, control, prediction, prevention, and remediation of AMD formation. Case studies from North America, Europe, Asia, and developing countries highlight various approaches to AMD problems.
- Contents:
- Acid Mine Drainage, Rock Drainage, and Acid Sulfate Soils; Contents; Preface; Contributors; PART 1 Causes of Acid Mine Drainage, Rock Drainage, and Sulfate Soils; 1 Acid Drainage and Sulfide Oxidation:Introduction; Introduction; Early Earth Atmosphere; Acid Drainage Deposits; Resources from Acid Drainage; Environmental Challenges; Future Opportunities; References and Suggested Reading; 2 Vitriols in Antiquity; Introduction; Vitriol Terminology; Uses for Vitriol; References and Suggested Reading; 3 Biogeochemistry of Acid Drainage; Acid Drainage Overview; Scale of Acid Drainage
- Microbially Generated Acid Mine Drainage Small-Scale Sulfur Reactions; Geochemistry of Acid Drainage; Redox Reactions and Acid Drainage; Valence Electrons of Metals; Measuring Redox Conditions; Geochemical Environment of Acid Mine Drainage; Origin of Pyrite and Sulfur in Rocks and Soils; Coal Depositional Environment; Acid Sulfate Soils; Geochemical Processing and Sulfur in Rocks, Sediments, and Soils; Sulfide Minerals; Sulfur Associated with Metal Ores; Sulfur Associated with Coal; Microbiological Biogeochemistry of Acid Mine Drainage; Genetic Sequences; Microbial Genetic Studies
- Phylogenetic Overview of Acid Drainage Bacteria Size of Microbes; Groundwater Flow and Microbes; Microbial Growth Conditions; Acidophiles; Review of Microbial Processes; Colonization of Pyrite; Importance of Microbial Participation in Sulfide Oxidation; Biogeochemical Limiting Factors; Microbial Reactions; Acid Drainage Biogeochemistry of Some Specific Minerals; Aluminum Reactions; Manganese and Iron Oxides; Pyrite Oxidation Rates; Microbial Control; Review of Naturally Occurring Acid Drainage; Geochemistry in Perspective; Preventing Aerobic Respiration: AMD Control; Summary
- References and Suggested Reading 4 Trace Element Geochemistry and Acid Rock Drainage; Introduction; Trace element Geology; Site Studies; Sampling; Analysis; Preparation; Decomposition; Determination; Bulk- and Single-Source Analyses; Data Analysis; Summary; References and Suggested Reading; 5 The Microbiology of Acid Drainage; Role of Microorganisms in the Sulfur Cycle; Natural Oxidation in the Sulfur Cycle; Natural Reduction in the Sulfur Cycle; Other Microorganism Reactions in the Sulfur Cycle; Acknowledgment; References and Suggested Reading
- 6 Natural Acid Rock Generation, Drainage, and Metal Leaching: Impact on Exploration, Mining, and Reclamation Introduction; Acid Rock Drainage; Gossan Formation; Supergene Mineralization; Acid Rock Generation and Drainage Through Time; Natural Metal Concentrations; Geoenvironmental Models; Conclusions; Acknowledgment; References and Suggested Reading; 7 The Sulfur Cycle: Acid Drainage and Beyond; Some Background And Fundamentals Of Microbial Life; Review of the Chemistry of Acid Mine Drainage; The Origin and Evolution of Life on Earth; Important Background Details; The Origin of Life
- Conditions on the Early Earth
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781523109845
- 152310984X
- 9781118749241
- 1118749243
- 9781118749197
- 1118749197
- 9781118749128
- 111874912X
- OCLC:
- 876514305
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