Output details
7 - Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences
University of Exeter
Article title
Fertilizer Amendment of Mining-Impacted Soils from Broken Hill, Australia: Fixation or Release of Contaminants?
Type
D - Journal article
Title of journal
Water, Air, & Soil Pollution
Article number
-
Volume number
215
Issue number
1-4
First page of article
373
ISSN of journal
1573-2932
Year of publication
2010
URL
-
Number of additional authors
1
Additional information
The remediation of metal-contaminated mine soils traditionally relies on the physical removal of the contaminated soil by earth moving equipment. This causes large-scale disturbances of soils and ecosystems and necessitates further land restoration. Phosphate stabilisation has been put forward as a new treatment technology to remediate contaminated soils in situ (e.g. US EPA; http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncer_abstracts/index.cfm/fuseaction/display.abstractDetail/abstract/1335/). However, this study demonstrates that such a technology is inappropriate for the remediation of many contaminated mine sites.
Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
2 - Ecosystems
Citation count
6
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
-
