The results of the toxic elements behavior predicting in gold mining technogenic waste during their draining with seasonal precipitation (case study of the tailings management facility of Tokur Mill, Amur Region, Russia) present in this article. The predictive assessment was made on characteristics basis of the tailings management facility material: the geochemical composition, migration ability of elements in model experiments using atomic emission and mass spectral methods, calculation of acid-producing and acid-neutralizing potentials. The substance of the tailing management facility has a high acid-neutralizing potential due to the carbonates in it, which contributes to the neutral and slightly alkaline drainage flows formation. Under these conditions, the migration of Cd, Bi, Pb, Sr, Co, Cu, Ni, Zn, Sb risk is low, and water migration of oxygen-containing As risk anions is very high, since the share of its mobile compounds in the tailings management facility material is 90-92%.
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