Water quality impacts of uranium mining and milling ...
Groundwater contamination from uranium mining and milling results from the infiltration of radiumbearing mine, mill, and ionexchange plant effluents. Radium, selenium, and nitrate were of most value as indiors of contamination. In recent years, mining has increased radium in mine effluents from several picocuries/liter (pCi/1) or less, to 100150 pCi/1. The shallow aquifer in use in the ...