Geochemical modeling for mine site characterization and remediation /
[Book]
edited by D. Kirk Nordstrom and Andrew Nicholson.
Englewood, Colorado :
Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME),
[2017]
1 online resource (ix, 159 pages)
Management technologies for metal mining influenced water ;
volume 4
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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
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
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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Geochemical modeling for mine site characterization and remediation.