Predictive modelling of dump water impact on the surroundings of the lignite dump site Jänschwalde (Eastern Germany)

Hoth, Nils; Wagner, Steffen; Häfner, Frieder

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“…Such contamination affects between 5000 and 10 000 miles of streams in the western United States (US Department of Agriculture, 1997). Although the most frequent examples of AMD contamination come from the USA and Canada (Grout et al, 2001;Lefevre et al, 2001), this problem also affects numerous states in Africa (Bullock et al, 1997;Geldenhuis et al, 1998), Europe (Banks et al, 1997;Hoth et al, 2001;Dinelli et al, 2002;Grande et al, 2003a,b;Sáinz et al, 2002), Australia (Lottermoser et al, 1999;Taylor et al, 2002) and, in general, wherever there is an intense mining activity in deposits with a presence of sulphides, as is the case not only of pyrite mining, but also of gold, silver, copper, zinc, lead, uranium and coal. In active mines of the developed countries, mining operators treat their effluents before releasing them to the environment.…”

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Application of a systemic approach to the study of pollution of the Tinto and Odiel rivers (Spain)

Sáinz

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Torre

2005

Environ Monit Assess

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The province of Huelva in the SW of Spain presents high environmental contrasts: together with the great abundance of natural spaces, it shows the impacts of historical natural resources exploitation processes. In the Ria of Huelva, the effluents of the chemical industries must be added to the contaminating inputs of the Tinto and Odiel rivers, coming from the acid drainage of the mines located in the Iberian Pyrite Belt. This forced the Environmental Agency (AMA) to elaborate in 1987 an Effluent Remediation Plan in order to negate unacceptable environmental impacts. The application of a "grey box" systemic analysis to the AMD pollution, undergone by the Tinto and Odiel rivers has allowed to set a conclusive explanation of the sampling results observed for a period of 11 years, thus making available an overall view of the polluting process and, above all, an explanation of its partial aspects.

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Section: Fluvial Contaminationmentioning

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Application of a systemic approach to the study of pollution of the Tinto and Odiel rivers (Spain)

Sáinz

Grande

Torre

2005

Environ Monit Assess

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“…1016/j.geoderma.2004.12.035 from the chemical characterisation of dumps the question of ongoing reductive processes has to be answered. For a detailed discussion of the second step, refer for German lignite dump sites to Brand (1996), Hoth et al (2001Hoth et al ( , 2002 or Hoth (2003).…”

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Reductive processes within lignite dumps—chance of a long-term natural attenuation process

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“…2 coupled transport phenomena and a geochemical equilibrium model to simulate redox reactions, mineral dissolution and precipitation, and cation exchange in the groundwater zone (Hoth et al, 2001). A hydrochemical model was developed and applied at three waste mine rock sites to assess the potential threat of mining-related pollution (Banwart and Malmstrom, 2001).…”

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Minerals and Mine Drainage

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2002

Water Environment Research

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This chapter reviews the literature pertaining to environmental processes that affect mineral dissolution reactions and the generation of acid mine drainage, the fate and transport of metal contaminants within the environment, the toxic influences of metals and mine drainage on aquatic species, characterization of abandoned mines and their potential for contamination, and technologies for remediation of mining-impacted systems or removing metals from wastewater streams. SITE CHARACTERIZATION AND ASSESSMENTAn important initial step during remediation plan development for miningimpacted areas is the assessment of a site's geologic composition and characterization of the future contamination potential. Airborne electromagnetic and magnetic surveys were used to provide an indication of metallic sulfide distribution in Copper Cliff (northern Ontario, Canada) (Shang et al., 2001). This technique was capable of providing information on mine tailing extent and showed promise for reducing ambiguity about interpreting mine tailing distribution and alterations in composition over time. Rare earth element (REE) fingerprinting was utilized to identify sources of acidic drainage and to better understand water-rock interactions in the Durham basin (England) (Worall and Pearson, 2001). Czaja (2001) prepared an account of the influence of mining and hydrological transformations in Upper Silesia (Poland) from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries and described changes in environmental pollution relating to mining activity. The potential for long-term pollution from an open cast lignite mine in Germany (the Janschwalde dump) was evaluated using a three-dimensional geochemical model to calculate the pyrite oxidation in different parts of the mine (Rolland et al., 2001).Another predictive modeling study was performed at the Janschwalde dump and Literature Review 2002

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Predictive modelling of dump water impact on the surroundings of the lignite dump site Jänschwalde (Eastern Germany)

Cited by 9 publications

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Application of a systemic approach to the study of pollution of the Tinto and Odiel rivers (Spain)

Application of a systemic approach to the study of pollution of the Tinto and Odiel rivers (Spain)

Reductive processes within lignite dumps—chance of a long-term natural attenuation process

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