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In-Place Treatment of Acid Metalliferous Mine Wastes: Principles, Practices, and Recommendations for Operable Unit 11 of the California Gulch NPL Site
In-Place Treatment of Acid Metalliferous Mine Wastes: Principles, Practices, and Recommendations for Operable Unit 11 of the California Gulch NPL Site |
January 2005 | ||
| Author(s): Neuman, D.R., F.F. Munshower, and S.R. Jennings, Montana State Univ., Bozeman | U.S. EPA Region 8, Denver, CO. 62 pp, Jan 2005 | ||
| Mine: California Gulch, MT | Waste Type: soils, mine and smelter wastes | Contaminant(s): cadmium, copper, lead, zinc, arsenic | Technology Type: phytoremediation |
| Keywords: in situ, phytostabilization, field demonstration, treatability study | |||
| Abstract: The in situ treatment of mine and smelter wastes and contaminated soils in Montana has been the subject of research and demonstration since at least the late 1940s. In the 1980s and 1990s, several phytostabilization research investigations and treatability studies and a field demonstration were conducted in Montana at abandoned mines and at Superfund Sites within the Clark Fork River Basin. These studies are continuing at abandoned mine sites on lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management. Knowledge gained from laboratory greenhouse experimental studies and large-scale demonstrations formed the basis for the selection of in situ treatment of mine-related wastes as the main remedial approach at the Anaconda Smelter NPL site and the Clark Fork River NPL site. The purpose of this document is to share this mine-waste cleanup knowledge as it applies to the California Gulch NPL site. | |||
| For more information online: In-Place Treatment of Acid Metalliferous Mine Wastes (PDF 970KB)  |
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