Research Article

Concentrating Mill Wastes are the Source of Pollution of Human Environment and Natural Ecosystems with Heavy Metals: A Case Study in Primorsky Krai, Russian Federation

Figure 5

The morphology of sulfates formed in the tailings: (a) laminal fibroferrite, (b) sheaf-like melanterite, (c) hexagonal prisms of copiapite with a truncated bipyramidal tail, and (d) tetragonal prisms of copiapite. Microscopes JSM-6490LV and ZEISS EVO 50XVP.