Drenaje ácido de minas y su influencia en ecosistemas asociados al yacimiento Santa Lucía, Cuba.

Damaris Gallardo Martínez; Noel Bruguera Amarán; José Antonio Díaz Duque; Ileana Cabrera Díaz

doi:10.46380/rias.v3i2.79

Authors

Damaris Gallardo Martínez Ministerio de Ciencia Tecnología y Medio Ambiente, Cuba
Noel Bruguera Amarán Ministerio de Ciencia Tecnología y Medio Ambiente, Cuba
José Antonio Díaz Duque Universidad Tecnológica de La Habana “José Antonio Echeverría", Cuba https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0032-4681
Ileana Cabrera Díaz Centro de Investigaciones para la Industria Minero-Metalúgica, Cuba

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46380/rias.v3i2.79

Keywords:

environmental impacts, mining, sulfide deposits

Abstract

In mining activities developed in sulfide deposits there happen processes that influence in the ecosystems, the objective of the present work is to evaluate the negative impacts provoked by the acid mine drainage in the environment, using as case of study the location of Santa Lucía, Pinar del Rio province, Cuba. The samples were taken in the open quarry of the location, the exit of the old tunnel and the superficial glides coming from the mine that drain to Santa Lucia river. It was carried out a valuation of causes and the mechanisms of formation of the mine acid drainage. Its negative incidence was determined in the deterioration of the ecosystems associated to the exploitation of these deposits. It was identified as the main cause of heavy metals contamination on the studied deposit by the biotic and abiotic oxidation of the sulfides. Starting from the identified impacts, the mechanism formation of the acid mine drainage was designed in the ecosystems. The alternatives developed for the neutralization and treatment of the mine acid drainage in Santa Lucía deposit, are a proposal of responsible management for decisors.
Keywords: environmental impacts, mining, sulfide deposits

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