The potential for groundwater contamination arising from a lead/zinc mine tailings impoundment.
The mining industry produces vast quantities of overburden and mill tailings. In many instances the disposal of these wastes on the Earth's surface have caused local, and occasionally even regional, water resources to become contaminated. Contamination typically arises from the oxidation of met...
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2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10413/3513 |