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Mineral Weathering and Metal Leaching under Meteoric Conditions in F-(Ba-Pb-Zn) Mining Waste of Hammam Zriba (NE Tunisia)

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Mining waste is an obvious source of environmental pollution due to the presence of heavy metals, which can contaminate soils, water resources, sediments, air, and people living nearby. The F-(Ba-Pb-Zn) deposit of Hammam Zriba located in northeast Tunisia, 8 km southeast of Zaghouan was intensively exploited from 1970 to 1992. More than 250,000 m 3 of flotation tailings were produced and stored in the open air in three dumps without any measure of environmental protection. Thus, in this paper, mineralogical and chemical characterization, especially the sulfide and carbonate phases, were carried out to evaluate the potential for acid mining drainage (AMD) and metal leaching (ML). Conventional analytical methods (XRD, XRF, SEM) have revealed that this mining waste contains on average 34.8% barite-celestine series, 26.6% calcite, 23% quartz, 6.3% anglesite, 4.8% fluorite, 2.1% pyrite, and 0.4% sphalerite. The content of sulfides is less important. The tailing leaching tests (AFNOR NFX 31-210 standard) did not generate acidic leachate (pH: 8.3). The acidity produced by sulfide oxidation was neutralized by calcite present in abundance. Furthermore, the leaching tests yielded leachates with high concentrations of heavy metals, above the authorized thresholds. This high mobilization rate in potential toxic elements (PTE) represents a contamination risk for the environment.
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hal-04315111 , version 1 (30-11-2023)

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Oumar Barou Kab, Fouad Souissi, Daouda Keita, Lev O Filippov, Mohamed Samuel Moriah Conté, et al.. Mineral Weathering and Metal Leaching under Meteoric Conditions in F-(Ba-Pb-Zn) Mining Waste of Hammam Zriba (NE Tunisia). Materials, 2023, 16 (23), pp.7443. ⟨10.3390/ma16237443⟩. ⟨hal-04315111⟩
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