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Formation of Alunite and Schwertmannite under Oxidized Condition and Its Implication for Environmental Geochemistry at Dalseong mine  

추창오 (안동대학교 자연과학대학 농업과학기술연구소 및 지구환경과학과)
이진국 (경북대학교 자연과학대학 지질학)
조현구 (경상대학교 지구환경과학과 및 기초과학연구소)
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Journal of the Mineralogical Society of Korea / v.17, no.1, 2004 , pp. 37-47 More about this Journal
Abstract
Sulfates such as alunite and schwertmannite formed under oxidation condition play a important role in geochemical processes taken place at waste dumps and a creek from Dalseong mine, Daegu. Water chemistry shows pH decreases from upstream toward downstream creek, mainly due to formation of schwertmannite that is the most abundant phase along the creek. The removal of Al from the creek is preferentially attributed to formation of Al-bearing minerals and Al-sulphates. Among them, alunite is the most important Al-sink phase that occurs at higher pH than $pK_1$, Al hydrolysis constant. With high saturation index, alunite formed at the creek has a spherical form, commonly associated with schwertmannite. Secondary minerals formed on the surface of altered or weathered surfaces of heavy metals from the wasted dump that underwent severe oxidation, where alunite has characteristic habits which are spheric, radiating, and botrytis-like aggregates. Natroalunite occurs in association with alunite, or as mixtures of both of them. Because the pH decreases with distance due to formation of schwertmannite, although total contents of dissolved ions slowly lessen at least in the AMD, it is expected that the minerals precipitated at the creek can be exposed to subsequent dissolution, which may induce possible environmental problems.
Keywords
alunite; Dalseong mine; saturation index; schwertmanite; sulphates;
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