Evaporative mineral precipitates from a historical smelting slag dump, Río Tinto, Spain

Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Abhandlungen

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 183-190

  Lottermoser, Bernd G ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Copiapite; Epsomite; Gypsum; Hexahydrite; Mineral efflorescences; R o Tinto; Roemerite; Slag; Spain

Indexed keywords

EFFLORESCENCE; EVAPORITE; MINE WASTE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SLAG; SULFATE; WEATHERING;

ANDALUCIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; HUELVA [ANDALUCIA]; RIO TINTO [(TWN) HUELVA]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; WORLD;

EID: 18144391924     PISSN: 00777757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0077-7757/2005/0016     Document Type: Article

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