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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.
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The article has been made in connection with project ICT CZ.1.05/2.1.00/03.0082 (Institute of Clean Technologies for Mining and Utilization of Raw Materials for Energy Use) supported by the European Union and from the means of state budget by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports. This research was also financially supported by the Technological Agency project TA02021132.
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Rapantova, N., Licbinska, M., Pospisil, P., Lusk, K. (2015). Mine Water Quality Evolution at Abandoned Uranium Mines in the Czech Republic. In: Merkel, B., Arab, A. (eds) Uranium - Past and Future Challenges. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11059-2_51
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