Primary minerals of Zn-Pb mining and metallurgical dumps and their environmental behavior at Plombieres, Belgium

Environmental Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-15

  Kucha, H ^a   Martens, A ^a   Ottenburgs, R ^a   De Vos, W ^b   Viaene, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; LEACHING; LEACHING TEST; LEAD; METALLURGICAL DUMP; MINING; ZINC;

BELGIUM, PLOMBIERES;

EID: 0029668425     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00770598     Document Type: Article

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