Platinum-group elements (Rh, Pt, Pd) and Au distribution in snow samples from the Kola Peninsula, NW Russia

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 33, Issue 20, 1999, Pages 3281-3290

  Gregurek, Dean ^a   Melcher, Frank ^a   Niskavaara, Heikki ^b   Pavlov, Vladimir A ^c   Reimann, Clemens ^d   Stumpfl, Eugen F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^c Central Kola Expedition   (Russian Federation)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Chemistry; Filter residues; Kola peninsula; Mineralogy; Nickel processing industry; Snow

Indexed keywords

CHEMISTRY; COPPER; GOLD; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; MINERALOGY; NICKEL; NICKEL ORE TREATMENT; PALLADIUM; PLATINUM; RHODIUM; SPECTROMETRY; TELLURIUM;

FILTER RESIDUES; KOLA PENINSULA; NICKEL PROCESSING INDUSTRY;

SNOW;

COPPER; GOLD; NICKEL; PALLADIUM; PLATINUM; RHODAMINE; SNOW;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; NICKEL; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENTS; SMELTING; SNOW CHEMISTRY;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; FILTER; LABORATORY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROSCOPY; MINING; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SMELTER; WIND;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 0033198075     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(98)00434-8     Document Type: Article

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