Mineralogical and geochemical controls on the release of trace elements from slag produced by base- and precious-metal smelting at abandoned mine sites

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1039-1064

  Piatak, Nadine M ^a   Seal II, Robert R ^a   Hammarstrom, Jane M ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; LEAD; MAGNETITE; MINES; SMELTING; TRACE ELEMENTS; ZINC;

CLINOPYROXENES; GEOCHEMICAL CONTROLS; SPINELS;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

ABANDONED MINE; GEOCHEMISTRY; LEACHATE; MINE WASTE; MINERALOGY; SLAG; SMELTING; TRACE ELEMENT;

IDAHO; NORTH AMERICA; TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES; VERMONT;

EID: 2142723546     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2004.01.005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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