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    Arsenic-microbe-mineral interactions in mining-affected environments

    Hudson-Edwards, Karen A. and Santini, J.M. (2013) Arsenic-microbe-mineral interactions in mining-affected environments. Minerals 3 (4), pp. 337-351. ISSN 2075-163X.

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    Abstract

    The toxic element arsenic (As) occurs widely in solid and liquid mine wastes. Aqueous forms of arsenic are taken up in As-bearing sulfides, arsenides, sulfosalts, oxides, oxyhydroxides, Fe-oxides, -hydroxides, -oxyhydroxides and -sulfates, and Fe-, Ca-Fe- and other arsenates. Although a considerable body of research has demonstrated that microbes play a significant role in the precipitation and dissolution of these As-bearing minerals, and in the alteration of the redox state of As, in natural and simulated mining environments, the molecular-scale mechanisms of these interactions are still not well understood. Further research is required using traditional and novel mineralogical, spectroscopic and microbiological techniques to further advance this field, and to help design remediation schemes.

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    Item Type: Article
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): arsenic, prokaryotes, mine, mineral, tailings, contamination, remediation
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Natural Sciences
    Depositing User: Karen Hudson Edwards
    Date Deposited: 14 Jan 2014 12:07
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 17:08
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/8950

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