Critical Review of Field Studies of Chemical Surface Coatings to Mitigate Leaching from Mining Wastes

Butler, Barbara A.; Brase, Lauren E.

doi:10.1007/s10230-024-00973-7

Mine Water Environ

2024

DOI: 10.1007/s10230-024-00973-7

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Critical Review of Field Studies of Chemical Surface Coatings to Mitigate Leaching from Mining Wastes

Barbara A. Butler,

Lauren E. Brase

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Prevention of Acid Rock Drainage formation through pyrite inhibition by silica coating

Butar,

Alakangas,

Kaasalainen

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Passive treatment of acid rock drainage (ARD) has been considered a sustainable approach in the long term, with sulfide inhibition by silica being a promising alternative. In a small-scale column leaching, a total of four cells loaded with pyritic waste rock (11 wt.% S) from an operating Cu mine in Sweden were kept in a climatic chamber at a controlled temperature and humidity. The waste rock was subjected to a water-leach for 11 weeks before treatment using alkaline silicate solution was applied, without pH buffer and adjuster. One cell was left untreated, whereas the others were treated with silicate solution as a source of dissolved silica, with and without H2O2 pre-oxidation. The pH in silica-treated cells generated leachate with circumneutral pH until the end of the leaching cycle, whereas sulfide oxidation accelerated in the absence of treatment. Leachate quality in all Si-treated cells improved, as evidenced by the suppressed release of sulfur and other metals (e.g. Al, Fe, Cu, Co, Mn, and Ni). Silica (SiO2) layer developed on waste rock upon treatment with a longer contact time, which remained stable upon extended exposure to air and water up to 10 weeks after treatment. Pyrite inhibition is attributed to the formation of silica layer. Despite forming a siliceous Fe-O phase, H2O2 pre-oxidation resulted in indirect oxidation of sulfides and other phases. With an excess of silicate solution and at alkaline pH, pyrite surfaces are devoid of coating and metal ions were mobilized. Finally, this study suggested that treatment of pyritic waste rock using silica can attenuate ARD formation and prevent metal leaching by pyrite inhibition and maintaining a circumneutral pH environment or both.

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Prevention of Acid Rock Drainage formation through pyrite inhibition by silica coating

Butar,

Alakangas,

Kaasalainen

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Critical Review of Field Studies of Chemical Surface Coatings to Mitigate Leaching from Mining Wastes

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Prevention of Acid Rock Drainage formation through pyrite inhibition by silica coating

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