Geochemical modeling for mine site characterization and remediation /

Geochemical modeling for mine site characterization and remediation /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:Englewood, Colorado : Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME), [2017]
Description:1 online resource (ix, 159 pages)
Language:English
Series:Management technologies for metal mining influenced water ; volume 4
Management technologies for metal mining influenced water ; v. 4.
Subject:
Abandoned mined lands reclamation.
Mine drainage.
Mine water.
Geochemical modeling.
Abandoned mined lands reclamation.
Geochemical modeling.
Mine drainage.
Mine water.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12017857
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Other authors / contributors:Nordstrom, Darrell Kirk, editor.
Nicholson, Andrew (Environmental engineer), editor.
ISBN:9781523112814
1523112816
9780873354615
0873354613
9780873353533
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 17, 2019).
Other form:Print version: Geochemical modeling for mine site characterization and remediation. Englewood, Colorado, USA : Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration, 2017 9780873353533
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Objective
  • Modeling and Mine Wastes
  • Chapter 2: What Is a Model?
  • Introduction
  • Scientific Models
  • Conceptual Errors with Models and Model Validity
  • Background Prerequisites for Modeling
  • Chapter 3: Geochemical Modeling and Environmental Systems
  • Introduction
  • Reaction Rates and Water-Flow Rates
  • Mass Balances
  • Chapter 4: Modeling for Regulatory Review
  • Introduction
  • Good Science
  • Regulatory Concerns
  • Conclusions
  • Chapter 5: Modeling to Understand a Site
  • Introduction
  • Water Analyses
  • Mineral Analyses
  • Major Hydrogeochemical Processes at Mine Sites
  • Chapter 6: Hydrologic Modeling
  • Introduction
  • Water Cycle
  • Water-Balance Models
  • Surface-Water Models
  • Groundwater Models
  • Modeling Approaches and Codes
  • Surface-Water/Groundwater Interaction
  • Pit Lakes
  • Watershed-Scale Integrated Models
  • Gas Phase
  • Calibration Tools
  • Graphical User Interfaces
  • Chapter 7: Reactive Transport Modeling
  • Introduction
  • Governing Processes in Mine and Process Waste Environments
  • Modeling Approach
  • Illustrative Example-Mineral Weathering in Tailings Impoundment
  • Summary and Conclusions
  • Chapter 8: Codes for Mine Site Characterization
  • Code Listing
  • Testing Codes
  • Databases
  • Chapter 9: Case Studies
  • Questa Baseline and Premining Groundwater Quality
  • Glynn and Brown: Application of Staged Geochemical Modeling to Understand the Past and Future of a Hydrogeochemical System
  • Hydrologic Modeling
  • Buckhorn Mine Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport Modeling
  • Uranium Processing Wastes and Groundwater Plumes: Three Field Studies
  • Simulations of Reactive Transport Modeling in Surface Waters
  • Appendix A: Recap: What Models Can and Cannot Do
  • Appendix B: Fifteen-Year Retrospection on Glynn and Brown (1996)
  • References
  • Index

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