Release of toxic metals and metalloids from Los Rueldos mercury mine (Asturias, Spain)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 340, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 247-260

  Loredo, J ^a   Alvarez R ^a   Ordonez A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Abandoned mining; Arsenic; Environmental geochemistry; Mercury; Pollution

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DRAINAGE; IMPURITIES; MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY MINES; METALLOIDS; TECTONICS;

ANALYTICAL DATA; SPOIL HEAP LEACHATES; TECTONIZATION; TOXIC METALS;

TOXIC MATERIALS;

ARSENOPYRITE; LEAD; MERCURY DERIVATIVE; MERCURY SULFIDE; METACINNABAR; METAL; REALGAR; SCORODITE; SULFATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABANDONED MINE; ARSENIC; GEOCHEMISTRY; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MINE DRAINAGE; MINE WASTE;

ACIDITY; ARTICLE; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LEACHING; MINING; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASTURIAS; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; WORLD;

EID: 14844288384     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2004.08.019     Document Type: Article

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