Vincent Marmier, Benoît Plante, Isabelle Demers, Mostafa Benzaazoua
{"title":"Development of a Neutral Mine Drainage Prediction Method Using Modified Kinetics Tests and Assessment of Sorption Capacities.","authors":"Vincent Marmier, Benoît Plante, Isabelle Demers, Mostafa Benzaazoua","doi":"10.1007/s10230-025-01023-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10230-025-01023-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Prediction of neutral mine drainage (NMD) chemistry is difficult with the predictive tools developed for acid mine drainage (AMD). To address this problem, a methodology to assess NMD risk was developed using Lac Tio Mine waste rock as a positive control. The methodology compares the maximum potential for contaminant release (in this case, nickel) using the waste rock's total metal content and the sorption capacity of the material (q<sub>max</sub>) combined with a mineralogical assessment and modified kinetic leaching experiments that use a chelating agent to prevent immobilization processes from occurring. The results indicate that the potential NMD risk associated with Lac Tio waste rock would be assessed as probable with the proposed methodology. Indeed, the total nickel concentrations in the Lac Tio waste rock range from 270 to 590 mg/kg. The nickel is found in Ni-rich pyrites, which proved to effectively leach when no immobilization occurred (using ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, or EDTA, leaching). The material's sorption capacities were between 127 and 197 mg/kg of Ni. The sorption capacity to total Ni content ratio of the material was < 1, indicating that the material has fewer sorption sites for Ni than Ni contained within the material, thereby underscoring the potential risk of Ni leaching over time. The approach proposed in this work provides an additional tool for the assessment water quality risk associated with NMD.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10230-025-01023-6.</p>","PeriodicalId":18571,"journal":{"name":"Mine Water and the Environment","volume":"44 1","pages":"16-29"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11933128/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143720468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xiaoyong Zhong, Qiang Wu, Bo Tang, Yunchuan Wang, Junbin Chen, Y. Zeng
{"title":"Hydrogeochemical Mechanisms and Hydraulic Connection of Groundwaters in the Dongming Opencast Coal Mine, Hailar, Inner Mongolia","authors":"Xiaoyong Zhong, Qiang Wu, Bo Tang, Yunchuan Wang, Junbin Chen, Y. Zeng","doi":"10.1007/s10230-023-00963-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10230-023-00963-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18571,"journal":{"name":"Mine Water and the Environment","volume":"111 7","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139388013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. F. Mlewa, M. Ondiaka, B. Alunda, Eric Munene Kinyua
{"title":"Pollution of Surface Water Close to an Artisanal Gold Mining Area: the Case of Macalder Mine, Kenya","authors":"F. F. Mlewa, M. Ondiaka, B. Alunda, Eric Munene Kinyua","doi":"10.1007/s10230-023-00959-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10230-023-00959-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18571,"journal":{"name":"Mine Water and the Environment","volume":"4 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138972850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Un Estudio de la Contaminación del Agua Subterránea Estratificada en una Zona Minera y el Proceso de Falla del Compuesto de Sellado","authors":"Jiawen Ding, Donglin Dong, Zhiqiang Hu, Zhonglin Wei, Longqiang Zhang","doi":"10.1007/s10230-023-00958-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10230-023-00958-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18571,"journal":{"name":"Mine Water and the Environment","volume":"49 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139003766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Georgios Louloudis, Christos Roumpos, Eleni Mertiri, Francis Pavloudakis, Konstantinos Karalidis
{"title":"Datos e Índices de Teledetección como Apoyo a la Gestión del Agua: Un Enfoque Integral Post-minería para la Extracción de Lignito en Grecia","authors":"Georgios Louloudis, Christos Roumpos, Eleni Mertiri, Francis Pavloudakis, Konstantinos Karalidis","doi":"10.1007/s10230-023-00960-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10230-023-00960-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18571,"journal":{"name":"Mine Water and the Environment","volume":"62 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138587279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
John Annandale, Meiring du Plessis, Phil Tanner, Sarah Heuer, Lesego Madiseng
{"title":"Irrigation Should be Explored as a Sustainable Management Solution to the Acid Mine Drainage Legacy of the Witwatersrand Goldfields","authors":"John Annandale, Meiring du Plessis, Phil Tanner, Sarah Heuer, Lesego Madiseng","doi":"10.1007/s10230-023-00961-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10230-023-00961-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18571,"journal":{"name":"Mine Water and the Environment","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139200817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"使用水平排水沟进行坑壁减压的技术见解——基于MODFLOW的分析技术","authors":"C. Thompson, W. Zawadzki","doi":"10.1007/s10230-023-00962-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10230-023-00962-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18571,"journal":{"name":"Mine Water and the Environment","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139201903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"下组煤近距离薄煤层带压开采突水危险性精细研究","authors":"Yu Xue, Shuyun Zhu, Heming Qiu","doi":"10.1007/s10230-023-00965-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10230-023-00965-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18571,"journal":{"name":"Mine Water and the Environment","volume":"114 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139239188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daniel A. M. Adria, Negar Ghahramani, Nahyan M. Rana, V. Martín, Scott McDougall, Stephen G. Evans, W. A. Take
{"title":"Perspectivas sobre la recopilación y evaluación crítica de las características de rotura y desbordamiento históricos en presas de estériles: Implicaciones en la modelización numérica","authors":"Daniel A. M. Adria, Negar Ghahramani, Nahyan M. Rana, V. Martín, Scott McDougall, Stephen G. Evans, W. A. Take","doi":"10.1007/s10230-023-00964-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10230-023-00964-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18571,"journal":{"name":"Mine Water and the Environment","volume":"113 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139242082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Composition and Sources of Dissolved Organic Matter in the Goafs of the Xinjulong Coal Mine","authors":"Mengyang Sun, Yanqing Ding, Puyu Qi, Qingchun Xu, Changshen Wang, Yajun Sun","doi":"10.1007/s10230-023-00957-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10230-023-00957-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18571,"journal":{"name":"Mine Water and the Environment","volume":"109 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139244757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}