Hazard assessment on arsenic and lead in soils of Castromil gold mining area, Portugal

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 887-898

  Ferreira Da Silva, Eduardo ^a   Zhang, Chaosheng ^b   Serrano Pinto, Luís ^c   Patinha, Carla ^a   Reis, Paula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c Connary Minerals ^*  (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GOLD MINES; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS; LEAD;

BOX-COX TRANSFORMATION; GEOCHEMICAL DATA; GEOSTATISTICS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT;

SOILS;

ABANDONED MINE; ARSENIC; CONTAMINATED LAND; GEOCHEMISTRY; GOLD; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEAVY METAL; MINING;

CASTROMIL MINE; EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTO [PORTUGAL]; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 1942425154     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2003.10.010     Document Type: Article

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