EugeneIn my study of the highly mineralized mine-water storage impoundment in #SvystunovaGully , I used PHREEQC to quantify the equilibrium dissolution potential of calcite for every of >1000 groundwater sample collected over more than 10 years.
For each sample, I modeled how much calcite the water could dissolve if it encountered carbonate rocks along its flow path (SI = 0 at equilibrium). Each sample was treated as an independent thermodynamic system, and the resulting dissolution values were aggregated spatially using Voronoi polygons.
The map below shows the median Δmass of calcite (g/L) for each polygon.
Areas with more negative values represent water that remains capable of dissolving additional carbonate minerals — a long-term indicator of the water’s aggressiveness.
This approach highlights the zones where the aquifer is most vulnerable to carbonate dissolution around the mine-water pond.
#Hydrogeology #Geochemistry #PHREEQC #Groundwater #MineWater #GIS #RStats #Hydrochemistry #OpenScience #Ukraine
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