Metal attenuation at the abandoned Spenceville copper mine

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 803-815

  Ranville, Mara ^a   Rough, Daniella ^a,b   Flegal, A Russell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDS; ADSORPTION; AMORPHOUS ALLOYS; CARBONATES; CONTAMINATION; COPPER; COPPER MINES; DRAINAGE; EXTRACTION; SCAVENGING; SEDIMENTS; TEMPERATURE; TOXICITY; ZINC;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; BIOAVAILABILITY;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ADSORPTION; BIOAVAILABILITY; COPPER; METAL; MINE; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SCAVENGING (CHEMISTRY);

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SPENCEVILLE MINE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1842852472     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2003.09.013     Document Type: Article

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