Author(s)

Michal Řehoř¹, Petr Vráblík², Jaroslava Vráblíková², Lukáš Žižka¹

¹Research Institute for Brown Coal in Most, Most, Czech Republic.
²Department of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Environment, J. E. Purkyně University in ústí nad Labem, ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic.

The contribution is focused on the relation between sorptive efficiency, mineral structure, and reclamation extraction of clay sorbents originating from the Most Basin. Clay sorbents are an important accessory raw material that occurs on several localities in the North Bohemian Brown Coal Basin, which are briefly described in the first part of the paper. The results from clay sorbents were obtained by mineralogy survey based on a diffract analysis with a D 5000 Siemens X-ray diffractometer. Localities, where zeolites and montmorillonites were found, are the main subjects of the research. The results show that parameters of clay sorbents mined in these localities are suitable for reclamation works. A successful reclamation with the use of bentonites is demonstrated on Strimice dump.

Sorption, Bentonite, Geology, Restoration

Řehoř, M. , Vráblík, P. , Vráblíková, J. and Žižka, L. (2017) Sorbent Mineralogy in the Most Basin and Their Utilization for Reclamation Works. Open Journal of Geology, 7, 1767-1773. doi: 10.4236/ojg.2017.712118.