| Article ID: | iaor20108204 |
| Volume: | 24 |
| Issue: | 15 |
| Start Page Number: | 4579 |
| End Page Number: | 4587 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2010 |
| Journal: | Water Resources Management |
| Authors: | Jimnez Antonio, Grande Antonio, Borrego Jos, Torre L, Gmez Tamara |
| Keywords: | mineral industries |
The lack of statistical interdependence relationships between pH and conductivity in channels exposed to Acid Mine Drainage processes is a phenomenon reported by various authors. Based on the study of a large mass of data with over 23,000 records of pH and conductivity taken in a typical mining channel in the Iberian Pyrite Belt in SW Spain, the present work confirms the existence of a quite different fact, which is the appearance of high negative correlation coefficients between both variables.