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Redox processes in a eutrophic coal-mine lake

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

G. Roman-Ross ,
L. Charlet ,
D. Tisserand  and
M. Glemme
G. Roman-Ross
Affiliation:
Environmental Geochemistry Group, LGIT OSUG, Université Grenoble I/CNRS, BP 53, F-38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
L. Charlet*
Affiliation:
Environmental Geochemistry Group, LGIT OSUG, Université Grenoble I/CNRS, BP 53, F-38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
D. Tisserand
Affiliation:
Environmental Geochemistry Group, LGIT OSUG, Université Grenoble I/CNRS, BP 53, F-38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
M. Glemme
Affiliation:
Environmental Geochemistry Group, LGIT OSUG, Université Grenoble I/CNRS, BP 53, F-38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
*
*E-mail: Laurent.Charlet@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr
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Abstract

The water column chemistry of lake St Eloy (St Eloy-les Mines, Allier, France) was monitored over a period of a year. This is a small stratified lake created by subsidence of an underground coal mine. The results show a permanent stratification and the development of two water bodies with contrasting chemistry. The superficial oxic layer (i.e. the upper 5 m) is of high water quality and the water, not affected by seasonal changes, is suitable as a source of drinking water. In contrast, the deeper layer is permanently anoxic and the waters have a conductivity which is six times greater than in the epilimnion. Due to density difference and the small size of the lake, no turn-over occurs and all elements that diffuse from bottom sediments are strongly concentrated in the hypolimnion. Arsenic concentrations are very low in the epilimnion, but they increase quickly with depth below the oxycline, to reach up to 7 μm below 8 m depth. Different solid phases could control the fate of arsenic in this lake such as gypsum for As(V) in the hypolimnion, mackinawite for As(V) and As(III) in the hypolimnion, and close to the oxycline, Fe(III) oxyhydroxides are possible hosts for both As(III) and As(V).

Keywords

arsenicredoxlake dynamicsmining

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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 69 , Issue 5 , October 2005 , pp. 797 - 805
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2005

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