<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Geochemical modeling plays an increasingly vital role in a number of areas of geoscience, ranging from groundwater and surface water hydrology to environmental preservation and remediation. Geochemical modeling is also used to model the interaction processes at the water - sediment interface in acid mine drainage (AMD). AMD contains high concentrations of sulfate and dissolved metals and it is a serious environmental problem in eastern Slovakia. The paper is focused on comparing the results of laboratory precipitation of metal ions from AMD (the Smolnik creek, Slovakia) with the results obtained by geochemical modeling software Visual Minteq 3.0.</p></abstract>

Geochemical modeling plays an increasingly vital role in a number of areas of geoscience, ranging from groundwater and surface water hydrology to environmental preservation and remediation. Geochemical modeling is also used to model the interaction processes at the water - sediment interface in acid mine drainage (AMD). AMD contains high concentrations of sulfate and dissolved metals and it is a serious environmental problem in eastern Slovakia. The paper is focused on comparing the results of laboratory precipitation of metal ions from AMD (the Smolnik creek, Slovakia) with the results obtained by geochemical modeling software Visual Minteq 3.0.

Precipitation of heavy metals from acid mine drainage and their geochemical modeling

Faculty of Civil Engineering, Institute of Environmental Engineering

Selected Scientific Papers - Journal of Civil Engineering

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Geochemical modeling plays an increasingly vital role in a number of areas of geoscience, ranging from groundwater and surface water hydrology to environmental...

Precipitation of heavy metals from acid mine drainage and their geochemical modeling

Published Online: Jun 06, 2014

Page range: 79 - 86

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sspjce-2014-0009

© 2014 Aneta Petrilakova et al., published by De Gruyter Open

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