The effect of temperature and precipitation on the leaching of contaminants from Ballangen tailings deposit, Norway

• Published in: WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, Waste Management and the Environment IX
• Main Authors: Lu, Jinmei, Yuan, Fuqing
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: WITpress 2019
• Subjects: VDP::Technology: 500::Rock and petroleum disciplines: 510::Mineral resources engineering: 511; VDP::Teknologi: 500::Berg‑ og petroleumsfag: 510::Bergteknologi: 511; Norway; Ballangen; Northern Norway
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/15194; https://doi.org/10.2495/WM180081

Published version available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.2495/WM180081 Leaching and transport of contaminants from tailings deposit is a highly complex interacting system affected by a suite of environmental factors, among which temperature and precipitation rates linked to climate change are two import...