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- Title
Uso de entulho de construção civil como sistema de cobertura para abatimento de drenagem ácida de mina em uma mina abandonada de pirita.
- Authors
de Moraes, Natália Cristiane; da Silva, José Margarida; Lima, Hernani Mota
- Abstract
In Ouro Preto/MG, pyrite was exploited at an old mine from 1930 through 1967. Considered as one of the best resources of pyrite in Brazil, this mine was exploited in order to supply sulfuric acid for explosives manufacturing, at the President Vargas Plant in Piquete/SP. The mine site is abandoned and has slope instability and acid leakage generation as the main environmental liabilities. Lately, the site has been used for illegal deposition of all sorts of urban waste. The Ouro Preto Administration, on its turn, has the intention of using part of the mine site for the disposal of solid residues of civil construction. This paper presents the results of kinetic tests carried out, in leaching columns, to assess the acid mine drainage potential in samples collected from the mine site and to evaluate the possibility of controlling and minimizing acid generation by using solid residues as a covering system. Laboratory results show that cover with solid residues of civil construction was effective in the reducing the acidity, concentration of metals and sulfate.
- Subjects
OURO Preto (Minas Gerais, Brazil); MINAS Gerais (Brazil); BRAZIL; ACID mine drainage; PYRITES; LEACHING &; the environment; ACIDITY function
- Publication
Rem: Revista Escola de Minas, 2011, Vol 64, Issue 2, p213
- ISSN
0370-4467
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/S0370-44672011000200013