500 Years of mercury production: Global annual inventory by region until 2000 and associated emissions

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 304, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 13-27

  Hylander, Lars D ^a   Meili, Markus ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Deposition; Emission; History; Mercury; Mercury free technology; Mining; Primary production

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; MERCURY MINES; POWER PLANTS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS;

MERCURY (METAL);

COPPER; GOLD; MERCURY; MERCURY SULFIDE; SILVER; ZINC;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; EMISSION INVENTORY; HISTORICAL RECORD; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PRIMARY PRODUCTION;

ALGERIA; ASIA; ATMOSPHERE; BIOSPHERE; CHINA; CONFERENCE PAPER; EUROPE; EXTRACTION; FINLAND; KYRGYZSTAN; MEASUREMENT; MINING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECYCLING; SPAIN; UNITED STATES; WASTE;

DATA COLLECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; MERCURY; MINING;

EID: 0037456782     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(02)00553-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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