Enhancing Nitrification at Low Temperature with Zeolite in a Mining Operations Retention Pond

• Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology
• Main Authors: Miazga-Rodriguez, Misha, Han, Sukkyun, Yakiwchuk, Brian, Wei, Kai, English, Colleen, Bourn, Steven, Bohnert, Seth, Stein, Lisa Y.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Research Foundation 2012
• Subjects: Microbiology; Arctic; Arctic Lake; Canada; Lac de Gras; Northwest Territories; Phytoplankton
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3407968; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22866052; https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2012.00271

Ammonium nitrate explosives are used in mining operations at Diavik Diamond Mines Inc. in the Northwest Territories, Canada. Residual nitrogen is washed into the mine pit and piped to a nearby retention pond where its removal is accomplished by microbial activity prior to a final water treatment ste...