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Selenium Specific
Background Information regarding selenium mitigative measures and treatment technologies
- Treatment Technology Review (Golder Associates, 2020; commissioned by the North American Metal Council).
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- A Strategic Plan for the Management of Selenium at Teck Coal Operations (Swanson et al.).
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- Evaluation of Treatment Options to Reduce Water-Borne Selenium at Coal Mines in West-Central Alberta (Microbial Technologies, Inc.).
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- Passive and semi-passive treatment alternatives for the bioremediation of selenium from mine waters (Martin et al. 2010).
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- Review of Selenium Management for Alberta Coal mines (Gilron and McKenna)
Case studies regarding selenium mitigative measures and treatment technologies
- ABMet Case Study: GE Technology to Help Remove Toxic Metals from Wastewater at Canadian Coal Mine
- Constructed Wetland Case Study: Performance of the Operating Demonstration-Scale Constructed Wetland Treatment System at Minto Mine
- Semi-Passive System Case Study: Biochemical Reactor System at the Brule Mine: a Semi-Passive Approach to Operational and Post-Closure Selenium and Nitrate Reduction.
- Various Case Studies: In Situ Treatment of Mine Pools and Pit Lakes
- Hybrid System (In Situ/Active) Case Study: Combining in situ treatment and active water treatment Case Study at Schwartzwalder uranium mine
- Teck Corporation’s operations in the Elk Valley
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