Environmental emission of mercury during gold mining by Amalgamation process and its impact on soils of Gympie, Australia

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 160, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 145-156

  Dhindsa, Harkirat S ^a,c   Battle, Andrew R ^a   Prytz, Svenning ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITI BRUNEI DARUSSALAM   (Brunei Darussalam)

Author keywords

Cold vapour atomic absorption spectrometry; Environment; Mercury; Sediment; Soil

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GOLD; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MINING; SOIL POLLUTION;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0037267452     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-003-8770-y     Document Type: Article

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