A modelling study is performed to assess the evolution of acid mine drainage (AMD) in fractured subsurface environments using two simulation methods: the equivalent porous medium (EPM) and the discrete-fracture network (DFN) approach. The 2D simulations are conducted using the numerical flow and reactive transport model POLYMIN (Molson et al. 2005) based on a mixed silicate-carbonate host rock ...

The characterization of metal release and attenuation in mining waste rock drainage has traditionally relied upon an array of mineralogical and geochemical techniques. Recent advances in analytical instrumentation now allow robust measurements of minute variations in the isotopic composition of metals in environmental samples, which have become a powerful new tracer of their fate. Here we provi...

We propose a method that allows probing quantitatively the individual saturations of crudeoil/brine/mud-filtrate mixtures during imbibition-drainage experiments on a petroleum rock-system. The experiments have been also performed at different temperature and pressure conditions.

The first uranium production center in Brazil began operation in 1982. After 13 years of a non-continuous operation, the mining activities were suspended definitively. Uranium was extracted by open pit mining. Operations gave rise to approximately 12.4×10 m of waste rock, while the mill process generated a volume of approximately 2.39×10 m of tailings. Regardless the fact that some studies deve...

Measures to counteract AMD generation need to start at the mineral surface, inhibiting 9 mineral-oxidizing, acidophilic microbes. Laboratory and long term field tests with pyrite-containing 10 mining wastes, where Carbonaceous Phosphate Mining Waste (CPMW) was added, resulted in low 11 acidity, and near neutral drainage. The effect was reproducible, and confirmed by several 12 independent resea...

The oxidation of iron sulfides in mine wastes is the main cause of acidic, sulfate, and trace element-rich acid mine drainage (AMD). However, the suite of reactions that transform iron from one species to another is quite complex. A reasonable strategy for controlling AMD production is to identify and further slow the slowest, rate-determining step (RDS) in the overall process. This paper provi...