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The treatment of acid mine drainage in the uranium deposit Curilo, Bulgaria, was very efficient for a long period of time. However, the treatment of such waters containing high concentrations of iron, including a portion in the ferrous state, caused serious problem on the efficiency of the cleaning process. These problems were avoided by the pretreatment of these waters by a system for iron removal consisting of a unit for bacterial oxidation of the ferrous ions to the ferric state and a unit for precipitation of the ferric iron as a result of chemical neutralization.
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Groudev, S., Spasova, I., Georgiev, P., Nicolova, M. (2015). Passive treatment of heavily polluted drainage waters in a uranium deposit. In: Merkel, B., Arab, A. (eds) Uranium - Past and Future Challenges. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11059-2_41
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