Updating global Hg emissions from small-scale gold mining and assessing its environmental impacts

Environmental Geology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 308-314

  De Lacerda, Luiz Drude ^a,b  

^a FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE RONDÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Gold mining; Mercury emission; Tropical ecosystems

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GOLD MINES; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; MERCURY (METAL);

ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS;

GEOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; EMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GOLD; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MINE WASTE; MINING; POLLUTION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0037768544     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-002-0627-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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