Acid mine drainage, rock drainage, and acid sulfate soils : causes, assessment, prediction, prevention, and remediation / edited by James A. Jacobs, Jay H. Lehr, Stephen M. Testa.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Acid Mine Drainage, Rock Drainage, and Acid Sulfate Soils; Contents; Preface; Contributors; PART 1 Causes of Acid Mine Drainage, Rock Drainage, and Sulfate Soils; 1 Acid Drainage and Sulfide Oxidation:Introduction; Introduction; Early Earth Atmosphere; Acid Drainage Deposits; Resources from Acid Drainage; Environmental Challenges; Future Opportunities; References and Suggested Reading; 2 Vitriols in Antiquity; Introduction; Vitriol Terminology; Uses for Vitriol; References and Suggested Reading; 3 Biogeochemistry of Acid Drainage; Acid Drainage Overview; Scale of Acid Drainage.

Microbially Generated Acid Mine DrainageSmall-Scale Sulfur Reactions; Geochemistry of Acid Drainage; Redox Reactions and Acid Drainage; Valence Electrons of Metals; Measuring Redox Conditions; Geochemical Environment of Acid Mine Drainage; Origin of Pyrite and Sulfur in Rocks and Soils; Coal Depositional Environment; Acid Sulfate Soils; Geochemical Processing and Sulfur in Rocks, Sediments, and Soils; Sulfide Minerals; Sulfur Associated with Metal Ores; Sulfur Associated with Coal; Microbiological Biogeochemistry of Acid Mine Drainage; Genetic Sequences; Microbial Genetic Studies.

Phylogenetic Overview of Acid Drainage BacteriaSize of Microbes; Groundwater Flow and Microbes; Microbial Growth Conditions; Acidophiles; Review of Microbial Processes; Colonization of Pyrite; Importance of Microbial Participation in Sulfide Oxidation; Biogeochemical Limiting Factors; Microbial Reactions; Acid Drainage Biogeochemistry of Some Specific Minerals; Aluminum Reactions; Manganese and Iron Oxides; Pyrite Oxidation Rates; Microbial Control; Review of Naturally Occurring Acid Drainage; Geochemistry in Perspective; Preventing Aerobic Respiration: AMD Control; Summary.

6 Natural Acid Rock Generation, Drainage, and Metal Leaching: Impact on Exploration, Mining, and ReclamationIntroduction; Acid Rock Drainage; Gossan Formation; Supergene Mineralization; Acid Rock Generation and Drainage Through Time; Natural Metal Concentrations; Geoenvironmental Models; Conclusions; Acknowledgment; References and Suggested Reading; 7 The Sulfur Cycle: Acid Drainage and Beyond; Some Background And Fundamentals Of Microbial Life; Review of the Chemistry of Acid MineDrainage; The Origin and Evolution of Life onEarth; Important Background Details; The Origin of Life.

Written to help readers understand the formation of AMD, Acid Mine Drainage addresses the generation of acidic waters usually from both used and abandoned coal or metal mines. Offering the most up-to-date ideas on metals remediation, which makes finding control methods relatively easy, the text provides a section on legal and policy issues and details the causes, control, prediction, prevention, and remediation of AMD formation. Case studies from North America, Europe, Asia, and developing countries highlight various approaches to AMD problems.