Dispersion of tailings from the Stirling Zn-Pb-Cu mine site, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia

Atlantic Geology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 159-170

  Hulshof, A H M ^a,b   Macdonald, A S ^a  

^a ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; HEAVY METAL; MINE WASTE; NEUTRALIZATION; RIVER WATER; TAILINGS;

CANADA;

EID: 0032209165     PISSN: 08435561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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