acid mine drainage biogeochemistry at iron mountain, california酸性矿山废水生物地球化学在铁山,加利福尼亚.pdfVIP

GEOCHEMICAL TRANSACTIONS VOLUME 5, NUMBER 2 JUNE 2004 Acid mine drainage biogeochemistry at Iron Mountain, California Gregory K. Druschela),b) Department of Geology and Geophysics, The University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 Brett J. Bakera),c) Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California–Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720 Thomas M. Gihringd) Department of Geology and Geophysics, The University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 Jillian F. Banfielde) Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California–Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720 Received 23 March 2004; accepted 19 May 2004; published online 30 June 2004 The Richmond Mine at Iron Mountain, Shasta County, California, USA provides an excellent opportunity to study the chemical and biological controls on acid mine drainage AMD generation in situ, and to identify key factors controlling solution chemistry. Here we integrate four years of field-based geochemical data with 16S rRNA gene clone libraries and rRNA probe-based studies of microbial population structure, cultivation-based metabolic experiments, arsenopyrite surface colonization experiments, and results of intermediate sulfur species kinetics experiments to describe the Richmond Mine AMD system. Extremely acidic effluent pH between 0.5 and 0.9 resulting 5 5 from oxidation of approximately 1 10 to 2 10 moles pyrite/day contains up to 24 g/l Fe, several g/l Zn and hundreds of mg/l Cu. Geochemical conditions change markedly over time, and