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acid mine drainage

outflow of acidic water produced by sulfide oxidation from metal mines or coal mines
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acid mine drainage

Summary

acid mine drainage ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (341 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • acid mine drainage is a type of wastewater[2].
  • acid mine drainage is a type of environmental impact of mining[3].
  • acid mine drainage's Commons category is recorded as Acid mine drainage[4].
  • acid mine drainage's different from is recorded as Acid rock drainage[5].
  • acid mine drainage's by-product of is recorded as mine[6].
  • acid mine drainage's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00001997[7].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include wastewater[2] and environmental impact of mining[3].

Why It Matters

acid mine drainage ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (341 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8] It is known by 38 alternative names across languages and contexts.[9]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Environment Ontology. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 14
    Environment ontology id → 00001997
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'ca', 'commons', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'eu', 'fa', 'fr', 'gl', 'id', 'pt', 's
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P3859]]: 00001997, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/143354274|acid mine drainage (#143354274)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/5484|Environment "
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