Processes affecting the chemical composition of Blue Lake, an alluvial gold-mine pit lake in New Zealand

Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 201-211

  Barker, Shaun L L ^a,b   Kim, Jonathan P ^a   Craw, Dave ^a   Frew, Russell D ^a   Hunter, Keith A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alluvial gold mine; Pit lake; Sulfide dissolution; Trace metals

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GOLD MINE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAKE; TRACE METAL; WATER CHEMISTRY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; BLUE LAKE; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 2342637201     PISSN: 13231650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MF03174     Document Type: Article

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