2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Mine Water Quality Evolution at Abandoned Uranium Mines in the Czech Republic
Authors : Nada Rapantova, Monika Licbinska, Pavel Pospisil, Karel Lusk
Published in: Uranium - Past and Future Challenges
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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The objective of the presented study is to assess the evolving mine water quality of uranium mines abandoned between 1958 and 1992 in the Czech Re-public. The sampling proved that actual uranium concentrations in mine waters did not in most cases exceed 0.45 mg/L. Uranium concentrations in the discharges from the adits abandoned more than 40 years ago were below MCL of US EPA for drinking water. Special attention is given to the most recently abandoned Mine Olší. Upon the geochemical modelling results using Geochemist’s Workbench, three time phases of mine water evolution can be defined at this deposit.