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Classification of slag material by spectral induced polarization laboratory and field measurements

Martin, Tina LU ; Günther, Thomas ; Weller, Andreas and Kuhn, Kerstin (2021) In Journal of Applied Geophysics 194.
Abstract
Historical slag dumps are of increasing interest due to economic, environmental or archaeological reasons. Geophysical investigations can help accessing the potential reuse of slag material to recover metallic raw material or for the estimation of the hazard potential of the buried slag material due to dissolution occurrence.
In our study, we have investigated various slag material in the laboratory with the spectral induced polarization (SIP) method, obtained from different historical slag dumps, located in the Harz Mountains, Germany. We also present SIP results from field measurements at a historical slag dump where most of the slag samples reveal high amounts of iron, zinc, silica, and barium.
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Historical slag dumps are of increasing interest due to economic, environmental or archaeological reasons. Geophysical investigations can help accessing the potential reuse of slag material to recover metallic raw material or for the estimation of the hazard potential of the buried slag material due to dissolution occurrence.
In our study, we have investigated various slag material in the laboratory with the spectral induced polarization (SIP) method, obtained from different historical slag dumps, located in the Harz Mountains, Germany. We also present SIP results from field measurements at a historical slag dump where most of the slag samples reveal high amounts of iron, zinc, silica, and barium.
Our results reveal a discrimination between three different slag grades (low, medium, high) by using the imaginary conductivity σ″ at a medium frequency (1–10 Hz) in both laboratory and field. Furthermore, additional information is obtained by a classification based on the spectral polarization behaviour and considering the field frequency range (0.1 Hz – 100 Hz). Five different types of spectra (ascending, descending, constant, maximum and minimum type) can be discriminated and recognized in the laboratory and in distinct areas of the slag dump. Even though a direct comparison between the laboratory and field results still needs to be proven, the buried slag material can be differentiated from the surrounding material by the polarization magnitude. (Less)
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  author       = {{Martin, Tina and Günther, Thomas and Weller, Andreas and Kuhn, Kerstin}},
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  language     = {{eng}},
  publisher    = {{Elsevier}},
  series       = {{Journal of Applied Geophysics}},
  title        = {{Classification of slag material by spectral induced polarization laboratory and field measurements}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/102405266/Martin_etal2021_Slag_JAG.pdf}},
  doi          = {{10.1016/j.jappgeo.2021.104439}},
  volume       = {{194}},
  year         = {{2021}},
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