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Casagrande DJ, Finkelman RB, Caruccio FT. The non-participation of organic sulphur in acid mine drainage generation. Environ Geochem Health. 1989;11(3):187-92doi: 10.1007/BF01758669.
Casagrande, D. J., Finkelman, R. B., & Caruccio, F. T. (1989). The non-participation of organic sulphur in acid mine drainage generation. Environmental geochemistry and health, 11(3), 187-92. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01758669
Casagrande, D J, et al. "The non-participation of organic sulphur in acid mine drainage generation." Environmental geochemistry and health vol. 11,3 (1989): 187-92. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01758669
Casagrande DJ, Finkelman RB, Caruccio FT. The non-participation of organic sulphur in acid mine drainage generation. Environ Geochem Health. 1989 Dec;11(3):187-92. doi: 10.1007/BF01758669. PMID: 24202429.
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Environ Geochem Health. 1989 Dec;11(3):187-92. doi: 10.1007/BF01758669.

The non-participation of organic sulphur in acid mine drainage generation.

Environmental geochemistry and health

D J Casagrande, R B Finkelman, F T Caruccio

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  1. The MITRE Corporation, USAFOEHL/TS, 78235, Brooks, AFB TX, USA.

PMID: 24202429 DOI: 10.1007/BF01758669

Abstract

Acid mine drainage is commonly associated with land disturbances that encounter and expose iron sulphides to oxidising atmospheric conditions. The attendant acidic conditions solubilise a host of trace metals. Within this flow regime the potential exists to contaminate surface drinking water supplies with a variety of trace materials. Accordingly, in evaluating the applications for mines located in the headwaters of water sheds, the pre-mining prediction of the occurrence of acid mine drainage is of paramount importance.There is general agreement among investigators that coal organic sulphur is a nonparticipant in acid mine drainage generation; however, there is no scientific documentation to support this concensus. Using simulated weathering, kinetic, mass balance, petrographic analysis and a peroxide oxidation procedure, coal organic sulphur is shown to be a nonparticipant in acid mine drainage generation. Calculations for assessing the acid-generating potential of a sedimentary rock should not include organic sulphur content.

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