high-arsenic brown coals from Nováky and Handlová coal deposits, was characterized in
terms of their chemical and mineralogical composition. The studied samples were collected
directly from the impoundment and also from the soil, where the ash was buried since 1965
when a dam of one of the ash ponds failed. A combination of methods, including scanning
electron microscopy (SEM), backscattered electron microscopy (BSE), energy dispersive …