Speciation of mercury and mode of transport from placer gold mine tailings

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1547-1554

  Slowey, Aaron J ^a   Rytuba, James J ^b   Brown Jr , Gordon E ^a,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; GOLD MINES; IONIC STRENGTH; MERCURY (METAL); MOLECULAR WEIGHT; ORGANIC ACIDS; RESTORATION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

CLEAR CREEK TRIBUTARY; GOLD MINING; SACRAMENTO RIVER; SEQUENTIAL CHEMICAL EXTRACTIONS (SCE);

MARINE POLLUTION;

ALUMINUM; AMALGAM; CARBOXYLIC ACID; GOLD; IRON; MAGNESIUM; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; MERCURIC OXIDE; MERCURY; MERCURY SULFIDE;

HYDROCHEMISTRY; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MINE WASTE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RIVER POLLUTION; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); TAILINGS;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; COLLOID; ECOLOGY; EFFLUENT; EXTENDED X RAY ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURE SPECTROSCOPY; EXTRACTION; HYDROLOGY; IONIC STRENGTH; MINING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; RIVER; SALMONID; SEDIMENT; SPAWNING; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; WATER POLLUTION; WATERSHED;

CALIFORNIA; COLLOIDS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GOLD; MERCURY; MINING; PARTICLE SIZE; SOLUBILITY; WATER; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SACRAMENTO RIVER; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

SALMONIDAE;

EID: 15244363335     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es049113z     Document Type: Article

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