A common paragenesis and two A.M.D. pollution sources in the Iberian Pyrite Belt, SW Spainproposal of a natural attenuation model in the affected fluvial network
- J. A. Grande 1
- A. T. Luís 1
- M. Santisteban 1
- J. M. Dávila 1
- A. Sarmiento 1
- J. C. Fortes 1
- E. Ferreira da Silva 2
- F. Córdoba 1
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Universidad de Huelva
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Universidade de Aveiro
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ISSN: 1886-7995, 1698-6180
Year of publication: 2022
Volume: 48
Issue: 2
Pages: 191-204
Type: Article
More publications in: Journal of iberian geology: an international publication of earth sciences
Abstract
La Faja Pirítica Ibérica (FPI), en el suroeste de Europa, es una de las provincias metalogenéticas de sulfuros más grandes del mundo y se caracteriza por altos niveles de contaminación por AMD en gran parte de su red fuvial. El objetivo principal de este trabajo es la caracterización de los procesos que controlan la química del agua, así como los procesos de evolución y atenuación natural de las aguas de dos focos productores de AMD diferentes, con una paragénesis común (minas San Telmo y El Carpio), ambas uniéndose aguas abajo en un mismo colector fuvial. El presente trabajo permitió cubrir el objetivo principal y detectar la existencia de un proceso de atenuación natural para estos dos cursos de agua como efuentes mineros que se encuentran globalmente controlados por diferentes procesos químicos y biológicos y afectados individualmente por procesos de disolución, hidrólisis, precipitación, coprecipitación, siendo los indicadores biológicos dominantes las algas de los géneros Euglena y Klebsormidium, muy importantes en los fenómenos de atenuación natural.
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