Anaconda Successfully Disposes Uranium Mill Waste Water By Deep Well Injection
- Organization:
- The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers
- Pages:
- 4
- File Size:
- 378 KB
- Publication Date:
- Jan 7, 1962
Abstract
The problem of disposing of excess waste water coming from The Anaconda Co.'s two uranium mills in Grants, N. M., first confronted the company's engineers in 1956. The increased discharge of mill waste water was due to the start-up of a second mill, recently completed to supplement production from a smaller plant which the company had operated since 1953. The waste water is mildly acidic and has a low level of radioactivity due to small amounts of uranium-natural, thorium-230 and radium-226. In addition, it contains large amounts of manganese, iron and the sulfate and chloride salts of sodium, calcium and magnesium.
Citation
APA: (1962) Anaconda Successfully Disposes Uranium Mill Waste Water By Deep Well Injection
MLA: Anaconda Successfully Disposes Uranium Mill Waste Water By Deep Well Injection. The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, 1962.