Acid mine drainage (AMD) treatment: Neutralization and toxic elements removal with unmodified and modified limestone

• Published in: Ecological Engineering
• Main Authors: Iakovleva, E., Mäkilä, E., Salonen, J., Sitarz, M., Wang, Shaobin, Sillanpää, M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2014
• Subjects: Langmuir; Norilsk; Toth; norilsk
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/20682; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2015.04.046

Limestones and their modifications from Nordkalk Corporation (Finland) flotation fines (FF) and filter sand (FS) as potential adsorbents for AMD treatment and wastewater purification from Cu, Fe, Zn and Ni ions were studied. Limestones were capable of binding significant amounts of Cu and Fe from sy...