Monitoring of fish and human exposure to mercury due to gold mining in the Lake Victoria goldfields, Tanzania

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 191, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 59-68

  Ikingura, J R ^a   Akagi, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MINAMATA DISEASE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fish; Gold mining; Lake Victoria; Mercury; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

GOLD; MERCURY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISH; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINING; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANZANIA;

ANIMALIA; LASTHENIA; VICTORIA;

BIOACCUMULATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISH CONTAMINATION; GOLD MINING; HEALTH IMPACT; MERCURY POLLUTION; MINERS;

TANZANIA, LAKE VICTORIA, NUNGWE BAY;

EID: 0030592592     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0048-9697(96)05178-9     Document Type: Article

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