RT Journal Article
T1 Long term fluctuations of groundwatermine pollution in a sulfide mining district with dry Mediterranean climate: Implications for water resources management and remediation
A1 Caraballo Monge, Manuel Antonio
A1 Macías Suárez, Francisco
A1 Nieto Liñán, José Miguel
A1 Ayora, Carlos
AB Water resources management and restoration strategies, and subsequently ecological and human life quality, arehighly influenced by the presence of short and long term cycles affecting the intensity of a targeted pollution. Onthis respect, a typical acid mine drainage (AMD) groundwater froma sulfide mining district with dryMediterraneanclimate (Iberian Pyrite Belt, SW Spain) was studied to unravel the effect of long term weather changes inwater flow rate and metal pollutants concentration. Three well differentiated polluting stages were observedand the specific geochemical, mineralogical and hydrological processes involved (pyrite and enclosing rocks dissolution,evaporitic salts precipitation-redisolution and pluviometric long term fluctuations) were discussed.Evidencing the importance of including longer background monitoring stage in AMD management and restorationstrategies, the present study strongly advise a minimum5-years period of AMD continuous monitoring previousto the design of any AMD remediation system in regions with dry Mediterranean climate.
PB Elsevier
SN 0048-9697
SN 1879-1026 (electrónico)
YR 2016
FD 2016
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10272/23136
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10272/23136
LA eng
NO Caraballo, M. A., Macías, F., Nieto, J. M., & Ayora, C. (2016). Long term fluctuations of groundwater mine pollution in a sulfide mining district with dry Mediterranean climate: Implications for water resources management and remediation. In Science of The Total Environment (Vol. 539, pp. 427–435). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.08.156
NO This study was financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science an Innovation through the project CGL2013-48460-C2 and project TAAM, FEDER-INNTERCONECTA Program, Ref. ITC-20111083. M.A.C. was financially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Education and the Post-doctoral International Mobility Subprogramme I + D + i 2008–2011. M.A.C. gratefully acknowledge the support form the Advanced Mining Technology Center of the University of Chile.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
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