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| type | K |
| database id | 9029 |
| title | Modeling groundwater flow and salinity evolution near TSF Żelazny Most .Part I - groundwater flow |
| authors | Świdziński W. |
| pages | 311 — 317 |
| DOI | 10.1051/e3sconf/20185400036 |
| full text link | https://www.e3s-conferences.org/articles/e3sconf/pdf/2018/29/e3sconf_swim2018_00036.pdf |
| affiliations | - Institute of Hydro-Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences, IBW PAN, Gdańsk, Poland
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| abstracts | Tailings which are by-product of the extraction of various metals (copper, gold, silver,
molybdenum, etc.) are often stored in so called Tailings Storage Facilities (TSF), where they
are deposited as a soil-water mixture by spigotting. In many cases the water discharged
together with tailings to the TSF is rich in salts and other chemical compounds imposing
negative pressure to the groundwater environment. Even in the case of total or partial lining
of such facilities and well-developed drainage systems to control leaching, some portion of
contaminated water often seeps either through the surrounding dams or the bed into adjacent
groundwater bodies. Numerical models can be very helpful tools to assess the extent of the
contamination and particularly to predict its potential development in the future. This paper
and the companion one describe such a numerical model developed for Żelazny Most
Tailings Storage Facility (south-west Poland), one of the world's largest tailings sites. In the
first part general information about the facility is provided and a 3D hydrogeological
numerical model of the structure is described. Groundwater flow pattern near the facility
obtained from numerical simulations is confronted with the measurements from a
comprehensively developed monitoring system. Part II will be focused on the modelling of
chloride transport in groundwater. |
| attributes | [reviewed] [scientific] |
| language | en |