Research Article

Potential Use of Organic- and Hard-Rock Mine Wastes on Aided Phytostabilization of Large-Scale Mine Tailings under Semiarid Mediterranean Climatic Conditions: Short-Term Field Study

Table 5

Evolution of the concentration of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and total dissolved Cu in the pore water of substrates from the time of establishment of the field assay (year 1 or 2006) and after 2 years (year 3 or 2008). Codes of treatments follow Table 1.

TreatmentDOC (mg L−1)Cu (mg L−1)
Y1Y3Y1Y3

C11290.040.17
RM5427954.520.06
RMS2181481.224.01
B1241227429.120.57
B23048600116.921.13
G1202722.810.11
G25231138.240.05
O1310570.690.65
O28311382.280.51
GB5162535.631.24
GM7801907.791.00
OB81324328.040.40
OM9181656.962.44

Y1: year 1; Y3: year 3.