Arsenic mobility in alteration products of sulfide-rich, arsenopyrite-bearing mine wastes, Snow Lake, Manitoba, Canada

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2303-2314

  Salzsauler, Kristin A ^a   Sidenko, Nikolay V ^a   Sherriff, Barbara L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CLAY; GEOCHEMISTRY; INDUSTRIAL WASTES; LAKES; MINES; ROCKS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

AMORPHOUS FE SULFO-ARSENATES (AISA); ARSENIC MOBILITY; ARSENOPYRITE ORE CONCENTRATE; MINE WASTES;

WATER POLLUTION;

ARSENIC; ARSENOPYRITE; ELEMENT MOBILITY; MINE WASTE;

CANADA; MANITOBA; NORTH AMERICA; SNOW LAKE; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 27844455891     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2005.06.007     Document Type: Article

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