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Natural Attenuation Capacity of Santa Cruz Area Rocks to Partition Mobile Solutes from In situ Leachate.

PB92166586

Publication Date	1992
Personal Author	Marozas, D. C.; Paulson, S. E.; Callahan, T. J.
Page Count	60
Abstract	The U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Mines is conducting research on the capacity of natural fluid/rock interactions to attenuate major and trace elements at the Santa Cruz In Situ Copper Mining project site. This report presents results from a series of experiments designed to quantify the changes that natural reactions will cause in the composition of mining leachate with time. Several different rock types in the Santa Cruz area were tested and the effect of rock type on attenuation was evaluated. Calculated experimental attenuation coefficients are presented as a method of quantifying attenuation capacity. Geochemical reactions that can cause subsurface attenuation of various leachate constituents are also discussed.
Keywords	Rock-fluid interactions Environmental impact assessments Underground mining Copper ores Water flow Attenuation In-situ processing Ground water Arizona Leaching Environmental transport Site surveys Geochemistry Subsurface investigations Casa Grande(Arizona)
Source Agency	Bureau of Mines
NTIS Subject Category	48A - Mineral Industries 48F - Geology & Geophysics 48G - Hydrology & Limnology 68D - Water Pollution & Control
Corporate Authors	Bureau of Mines, Minneapolis, MN. Twin Cities Research Center.
Document Type	Technical Report
Title Note	Open file rept. (Final).
NTIS Issue Number	199213

Natural Attenuation Capacity of Santa Cruz Area Rocks to Partition Mobile Solutes from In situ Leachate.

Natural Attenuation Capacity of Santa Cruz Area Rocks to Partition Mobile Solutes from In situ Leachate.
PB92166586

Publication Date	1992
Personal Author	Marozas, D. C.; Paulson, S. E.; Callahan, T. J.
Page Count	60
Abstract	The U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Mines is conducting research on the capacity of natural fluid/rock interactions to attenuate major and trace elements at the Santa Cruz In Situ Copper Mining project site. This report presents results from a series of experiments designed to quantify the changes that natural reactions will cause in the composition of mining leachate with time. Several different rock types in the Santa Cruz area were tested and the effect of rock type on attenuation was evaluated. Calculated experimental attenuation coefficients are presented as a method of quantifying attenuation capacity. Geochemical reactions that can cause subsurface attenuation of various leachate constituents are also discussed.
Keywords	Rock-fluid interactions Environmental impact assessments Underground mining Copper ores Water flow Attenuation In-situ processing Ground water Arizona Leaching Environmental transport Site surveys Geochemistry Subsurface investigations Casa Grande(Arizona)
Source Agency	Bureau of Mines
NTIS Subject Category	48A - Mineral Industries 48F - Geology & Geophysics 48G - Hydrology & Limnology 68D - Water Pollution & Control
Corporate Authors	Bureau of Mines, Minneapolis, MN. Twin Cities Research Center.
Document Type	Technical Report
Title Note	Open file rept. (Final).
NTIS Issue Number	199213