Click here for more news and sport from the Stirling area.If oxygen reaches the pyrite, however, the sulphur and iron separate.
This happens when the water table is lowered, for example when a watercourse is deepened and the meadow drained.The sulphur washes out into the watercourse as diluted sulphuric acid, and the iron follows in a form called ferrous iron.
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