TITLE:
Application of Fly Ash and Organic Material as Dry Cover System in Prevention of Acid Mine Drainage Generation
AUTHORS:
Thant Swe Win, Sendy Dwiki, Akihiro Hamanaka, Takashi Sasaoka, Hideki Shimada, Shinji Mastumoto, Ginting Jalu Kusuma
KEYWORDS:
AMD, Fly Ash, Organic Material, Dry Cover, Coal Mine, Column Leaching
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection,
Vol.8 No.5,
May
12,
2020
ABSTRACT: The common practice in AMD prevention is a dry cover technique. In this technique, rock that is potential in producing acidity (PAF) will be placed below non-acid producing rock (NAF). Depends on NAF availability in the mine site situation, organic covers can be used to prevent diffusion of oxygen into reactive sulphide wastes and subsequently to eliminate sulphide compounds oxidation and generation of acidic waters. The utilization of additional material cover layer is proposed, by using fly ash and organic material combination. To investigate the possibility of using these materials, a column leaching test in the laboratory scale was conducted with several scenarios of simulation. By comparing between column with different thickness of fly ash and organic material, the leachate water behavior is observed in the experiment, including the measurement of water quality (pH and EC), major cations-anions. The result suggests the possible thickness of fly ash (FA) and organic material (OM) as cover layer material, especially in the case of mine with domination of PAF rock material.