Nf. Gray et C. Oneill, ARTIFICIAL ACID-MINE DRAINAGE FOR USE IN LABORATORY SIMULATION STUDIES, Fresenius environmental bulletin, 4(8), 1995, pp. 481-484
Acid mine drainage (AMD) collected in the field is often highly variab
le and deteriorates rapidly on storage, This makes laboratory based st
udies on toxicity, treatment, buffering and dilution of AMD difficult
and expensive. To overcome this problem AMD was simulated in the labor
atory for routine use. Simulated AMD is chemically similar to real AMD
, and has similar acidity and toxicity. It is found to be more stable
than real AMD and to produce more reproducible results in laboratory e
xperiments. Details of simulated AMD are given.