4,500-year-old mining pollution in southwestern Spain: Long-term implications for modern mining pollution

Economic Geology

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 655-661

  Leblanc, M ^a   Morales, J A ^b   Borrego, J ^b   Elbaz Poulichet, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDITY; ARSENIC; BARIUM; COPPER; GOLD; LEAD; MERCURY; METAL; MINING; PYRITE; RIVER; SPAIN; SULFIDE; THALLIUM; TIN; WATER POLLUTION; ZINC;

MASSIVE SULFIDE; MINE DRAINAGE; MINE WASTE; ORE DEPOSIT; RIVER POLLUTION;

SPAIN;

EID: 0033934815     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.95.3.655     Document Type: Article

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