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Get Price· Heavy metal pollution and acid mine drainage is a very important environmental concern where waste materials containing metalrich sulfides from mining activity have been stored or abandoned [ 38 ]. Tailings and rock dumps are associated with the surface impacts which greatly affect surface and ground water quality.
Get PriceIron ore reduction is an important process in the iron/steelmaking industry, where iron ore is reduced to metallic iron, usually with coal, coke, natural gas, CO, or hydrogen as the reducing agents. Fig. 1. Scheme of the CBGIOR process ( Wei et al., 2017a,b ).
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Get Price· If the surrounding environment is sufficiently oxidizing (dependent on O 2 concentration, pH and bacterial activity), much of the ferrous iron will oxidize to ferric iron, according to the following reaction: (2)Fe2+ + 1/4 O2 + H+ → Fe3+ + 1/2 H2O
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Get Price· After the collapse of the Fundão dam, 43 million m 3 of iron ore tailings continue to cause environmental damage, polluting 668 km of watercourses from the Doce River to the Atlantic Ocean. The objectives of this study are to characterize the Fundão Tailings Dam and structural failures; improve the understanding of the scale of the disaster; and assess the .
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Get Price· In mining states like Pennsylvania, iron mines flooded with water spill gallons of iron oxide into ponds, rivers and lakes; this can poison fish and pollute the environment. The iron molecules react with oxygen to create a solid iron oxide known as "yellow boy," which sinks to the bottom of rivers and waterways to pollute them.
Get Price· Mine drainage is metalrich water formed from a chemical reaction between water and rocks containing sulfurbearing minerals. The resulting chemicals in the water are sulfuric acid and dissolved iron. Some or all of this iron can come out as solids to form the red, orange, or yellow sediments in the bottom of streams containing mine drainage.
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