 | Fernández-Landero, Sandra, Fernández-Caliani, Juan Carlos, Giráldez, María Inmaculada, Morales, Emilio, Barba-Brioso, Cinta, González, Isabel (2023) Soil Contaminated with Hazardous Waste Materials at Rio Tinto Mine (Spain) Is a Persistent Secondary Source of Acid and Heavy Metals to the Environment. Minerals, 13 (4) 456 doi:10.3390/min13040456 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | with Hazardous Waste Materials at Rio Tinto Mine (Spain) Is a Persistent Secondary Source of Acid and Heavy...Mine (Spain) Is a Persistent Department Earth Sciences, University of Huelva, 21071 Huelva, Spain; sandra...Chemistry, University of Huelva, 21071 Huelva, Spain; giraldez@uhu.es (M.I.G.); albornoz@uhu.es (E.M...Chemistry, University of Seville, 41071 Seville, Spain; cbarba@us.es (C.B.-B.); igonza@us.es (I.G.) Correspondence:...toxic heavy metals were found especially in the slag-contaminated soil. Copper, Zn, and Pb were the most |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | precipitates from a historical smelting slag dump, Río Tinto, Spain B. G. Lottermoser, Cairns With 1 figure...associated with slag deposits at the historical Río Tinto smelter site, southwest Spain. The slags have...precipitates at seepage points at the base of the slag dump and as solid aggregates in protected overhangs...Evaporation of seepage waters emanating from the slag dump causes the precipitation of mobilised elements...sulfate contamination of Río Tinto waters. Key words: Slag, mineral efflorescences, gypsum, epsomite, hexahydrite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mobilization of heavy metals from historical smelting slag dumps, north Queensland, Australia B. G. LOTTERMOSER*...6811, Cairns, QLD 4870, Australia ABSTR ACT Slag dumps occur at several historical smelting sites in...Australia. The microcrystalline slags contain primary slag phases, relict flux, ore and furnace materials and...secondary weathering related minerals. Common primary slag phases are glass, Zn-rich fayalite (± Zn-rich kirschsteinite)...alloys (Cu3Sn), and unknown metal compounds. The slag materials contain wt.% concentrations of Zn and |  | Vítková, M., Ettler, V., Johan, Z., Kříbek, B., Šebek, O., Mihaljevič, M. (2010) Primary and secondary phases in copper-cobalt smelting slags from the Copperbelt Province, Zambia. Mineralogical Magazine, 74 (4) 581-600 doi:10.1180/minmag.2010.074.4.581 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | skeletal/dendritic crystal shapes indicated rapid cooling of the slag melt. Copper and cobalt were found in low concentrations...and sphaerocobaltite (CoCO3), were observed on the slag surfaces. They indicate that the slags studied are...produce Cu matte and remove Fe into the silicate slag. The second step is generally performed in Peirce-Smith...its refinement in conventional PS converters. The slag discarded generally contained <1 wt.% Cu (Cutler...tonnes of Cu concentrate per year. The discarded slag contains up to 1 wt.% Cu (T. Gonzáles, Mufulira |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mountains, southwestern Poland. The prevailing massive slag has a chemical composition dominated by FeO (up...olivine and hercynite. The second type, a porous slag, is poorer in FeO (up to 28 wt.%) and richer in...composition and distribution of trace elements in slag phases vary from sample to sample, which is consistent...diagrams used in this study indicate that most of the slag samples have solidified under conditions of strong...should be used to reconstruct the temperature of slag formation. Our mineralogical and chemical study |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 737±747 The leaching behaviour of lead metallurgical slag in high-molecular-weight (HMW ) organic solutions...contaminants (Pb, Zn, Cu, As) in `soil-like' environments. Slag was submitted to a 112-day batch leaching experiment...MINTEQA2 calculations and confirmed on the leached slag surface by SEM and Raman spectrometry. Compared...predominant during the long-term interaction of slag with an HMW organic solution of real soil. As a...re-vegetation of slag dumps may be considered as a possible scenario for slag management. K EY WORDS : slag, Pb metallurgy |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Catalonia (UPC), Colón, 7, 08222 Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain; E-Mail: navarro@mf.upc.edu; Tel.: +34-93-739-8151;...groundwater contamination [3–12]. Thus, base-metal slag deposits at the Penn Mine in California contained...1), located 90 km NE of the city of Almería (SE Spain), together with the Iberian Pyrite Belt and the...part of the Sierra Almagrera, where the main slag dumps were generated between 1850 and 1885 (Figure...environmental concern in the old mining areas of SE Spain. The detailed characterization of the slags dumped |  | Rosado, L., Morais, C., Candeias, A. E., Pinto, A. P., Guimarães, F., Mirão, J. (2008) Weathering of S. Domingos (Iberian Pyritic Belt) abandoned mine slags. Mineralogical Magazine, 72 (1) 489-494 doi:10.1180/minmag.2008.072.1.489 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | leachable of the elements studied. K EY WORDS : slag, acid mine drainage, metal pollution, S. Domingos...the chemical and mineralogical composition of the slag; (2) to identify the chemical and mineralogical...pollutants’ geochemical behaviour. FIG. 1. Piles of slag in S. Domingos mine and its spatial relationship...et al., 2004). The association between metal and slag phase is an important control on the availability...(Parsons et al., 2001). Moreover, the dispersion of slag grains can control the soil geochemistry near smelting |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | words: slag, derelict mines, leachability, mineralogy, elemental composition I. INTRODUCTION Slag is a...processing to recover metals. At many older mines, slag was intentionally dumped near the furnaces that...it, leaving behind coherent piles or jumbles of slag weighing many thousands of tonnes. Its appearance...solidification after smelting. These voids help to make slag porous and in places, permeable, allowing environmental...environmental water to infiltrate and leachate to exfiltrate. Slag from base metal ores is composed of minerals including |  | | Journal (issue) | | Hall Mineral Collection N. Turner. 1 Rammelsberg Slag Minerals 1 W. van den Berg and C. van Loon. Diary...and Luis Miguel Fernandez had made the trip from Spain bringing a fine selection of minerals from the Iberian...Logrono, and gypsum var. selenite from Zaragosa, Spain (see Mineralogical Record, 20, 143-44, 451-56),...The International Association o f Collectors o f Slag Minerals has sprung from a n association between...and other memorabilia found in the workings and dumps or uncovered during research in old archives. Some |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of copper-based tools, and the “Golden Age” of Spain in the 16th and 17th centuries was built on the...rock, loose sediment, mill tailings, metallurgical slag and wastes, roasted ore, flue dust, ash, processing...largest in the world. The mine is surrounded by waste dumps and tailings ponds, the latter of which also contain...Western Australia, with its attendant grey waste dumps and grey-white tailings ponds. The town of Kalgoorlie...Aznalcóllar– Los Frailes dam failure in southwestern Spain on 25 April 1998 (FIG. 4). The flood of tailings |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | present in greater amounts in leachate from weathered slag samples. The documented amounts of As, Zn, Pb and...purposes. K EY WORDS : Zn-Pb slag, slag composition, heavy elements mobilization, slag crystallization in undercooling...bulk compositions and leaching tests for two slag dumps from the Bytom Piekary Śla˛skie area, Upper...reduction furnace continuously and put on waste dumps (Kotucha, 2008). At a similar installation in Świe˛tochłowice...in the range 1200 1300ºC (Puziewicz, 2007). The dumps investigated are located in the Brzeziny Śla˛skie |  | | Book | | mining tradition. The Moors were finally driven from Spain in 1492, the same year that Columbus made his first...shores of the New World. The various provinces of Spain were united under one crown in 1515. About 1551...Throughout the Middle Ages the governments of both Spain and Portugal were mainly interested in mining for...satis¬ factory proof that the large accumulation of slag existing in the area of these mines had been produced...produced prior to the departure of the Romans. Similar slag heaps are found elsewhere in the south-west of the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mineralogy and the release of trace elements from slag from the Hegeler Zinc smelter, Illinois (USA) Nadine...2009 Editorial handling by R. Fuge a b s t r a c t Slag from the former Hegeler Zn-smelting facility in...most slag samples is dominated by SiO2, Al2O3, Fe2O3 and CaO. The bulk composition of the slag suggests...suggests a high silica content of the melt. Bulk slag trace-element chemistry shows that the dominant...and therefore less leached when compared to the slag samples with lower bulk Zn concentrations where |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | people who wash over the dumps from exhausted and abandoned mines, and those dumps which are derived from...reactions in large oxidizing sulfidic waste rock dumps may provide future opportunities to obtain geothermal...The reuse of ferrous slag has been a widely accepted practice since Roman times. Slag piles commonly occur...Historic dump of smelting slag facing the Río Tinto, Spain. The ~1 km long slag dump (~10 million tonnes)...römerite) occur at seepage points at the base of the slag dump and FIGURE 2 E LEMENTS historical base metal |  | Kierczak, J., Neel, C., Puziewicz, J., Bril, H. (2009) THE MINERALOGY AND WEATHERING OF SLAG PRODUCED BY THE SMELTING OF LATERITIC Ni ORES, SZKLARY, SOUTHWESTERN POLAND. The Canadian Mineralogist, 47 (3) 557-572 doi:10.3749/canmin.47.3.557 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 3749/canmin.47.3.557 THE MINERALOGY AND WEATHERING OF SLAG PRODUCED BY THE SMELTING OF LATERITIC Ni ORES, SZKLARY...wt.% SiO2, and slag 2 is enriched in Ca and impoverished in Fe relative to slag 1; slag 3 is characterized...(awaruite, bronze, metallic Fe and Cu). One type of slag contains significant amounts of the potentially...affected by weathering, and small vitreous fragments of slag occurring in nearby agricultural fields have only... Keywords: processing of Ni ore, lateritic ore, slag, phase composition, weathering, Szklary, Poland |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 3.433 A MINERALOGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL STUDY OF SLAG FROM THE HISTORICAL O’DONNELL ROAST YARDS, SUDBURY...Sudbury, ON, P3E 2C6, Canada Abstract Highly altered slag samples from the historical O’Donnell Roast Yards...alteration halos around the center of the remnant slag and rock piles indicate strong variations in the...chemical and mineralogical composition of the altered slag with lateral distance and depth. The concentration...concentration of trace elements in these surficial slag samples is controlled by the proportions of spinel phases |  | Warchulski, R., Mendecki, M., Gawęda, A., Sołtysiak, M., Gadowski, M. (2019) Rainwater-induced migration of potentially toxic elements from a Zn–Pb slag dump in Ruda Śląska in light of mineralogical, geochemical and geophysical investigations. Applied Geochemistry, 109. 104396 doi:10.1016/j.apgeochem.2019.104396 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | migration of potentially toxic elements from a Zn–Pb slag dump in Ruda Śląska in light of mineralogical, geochemical...A B S T R A C T Keywords: Zn-Pb slag Potentially toxic elements Slag weathering Rainfall leaching EM...heavy industry, including mining and smelting. Slag dumps scattered across the region are the sources of...At the slag dump in Ruda Śląska, it is possible to distinguish three types of slag: (i) slag associated...glassy slag composed of glass and single crystals of melilite and wollastonite; and (iii) slag composed |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 375–384 Published online 24 September 2015 Zn-Pb slag crystallization: evaluating temperature conditions...19th century. Thus, there is a great variety of slag textures and compositions reflecting changes in...calcination and precise dosages of coal/coke and add-ons. Slag samples were collected at three localities with...could be helpful in retrieving the temperature of slag crystallization. This study concentrates on the...compared with phase diagrams results. Zinc-lead slag dumps are a common feature of the landscape of Upper |  | Zubkova, N. V., Chukanov, N. V., Pekov, I. V., Pushcharovsky, D. Yu., Katerinopoulos, A., Vuduris, P., Magganas, A. (2019) New Data on Fiedlerite-1A from Ancient Slags of Lavrion, Greece: Crystal Structure and Hydrogen Bonding. Doklady Earth Sciences, 486 (1) 517-520 doi:10.1134/s1028334x1905009x | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (lead was extracted in a subordinate amount), while slag containing other components (residual Pb, as well...mainly buried in the sea. The interaction of various slag components with seawater for more than two thousand...To date, their diversity in the ancient Lavrion slag has exceeded one hundred, and this number includes...“metallurgical slag–seawater.” This paper presents new data on fiedlerite-1A from ancient slag dumps buried in...finding of single crystals of the fiedlerite1A in the slag from Paha Limani allowed to refine its crystal structure |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mobility in leachate from lead-zinc metallurgical slag: experimental approach and long-term assessment...between smelter slag and water show differences depending on the origin of the slag. The studied samples...phases. An ‘oxidizing’ scenario can be proposed for slag waste disposal, considering that cerussite (PbCO3)...leached from the slag and in particular from the ore-processing slag. Quenched glass-rich slag from old car-battery...of Pb, especially in acidic environments. Neither slag would therefore be suitable for recycling for civil |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | process route for the extraction of metal values from slag, low grade ores and other oxidic materials such...arc furnace slag and chromite ore. The impact of different factors to the dissolution of slag, such as temperature...holding time, flux content and weight ratio of flux/slag was studied. Based on the optimised experimental...bath containing metal values extracted from the slag/ore was electrolysed under an applied voltage of...electrowinning, Metal extraction, Recovery, EAF slag, Chromite Introduction Production of high alloy |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in 2050 as well as the corresponding amounts of slag produced. As the production increases, so does the...advanced materials. The amount of chromium in slag dumps, the emission of SO2 from copper production and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geometallurgical Characterization of Non-Ferrous Historical Slag in Western Tasmania: Identifying Reprocessing Options...the slag during the smelting process. Today, the former smelter site consists of two large slag piles...geometallurgical and geo-environmental properties of these slag materials (n = 280) were determined. The South and...techniques could be explored, as well re-smelting. These slag materials are classified geoenvironmentally as potentially...mineral processing waste (e.g., waste rock, tailings, slag, spent heap leach) generated annually [4]. While |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 5%. The resulting decoppering rate of 92.21% and slag sulphur content of 0.0363% were obtained at the...amount of 0.14 (mass ratio of CaCl2 to the copper slag) and oxygen flow rate of 0.3 L min−1. Received...slags provides the opportunity to convert old slag dumps of potentially hazardous waste into innocuous...of Zhang et al. (2005). Because viscosity of the slag increased at the end of oxidation process, causing... To obtain high-quality iron, the copper in the slag must be removed before the smelting reduction process |
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