Mine haul road fugitive dust emission and exposure characterisation

Sustainable World

Volumn 8, Issue , 2003, Pages 103-112

  Thompson, R J ^a   Visser, A T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH RISKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MINES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; ROADS AND STREETS; SAMPLING; TRUCK DRIVERS;

DUST EMISSION; DUST GENERATION; EMISSION INVENTORY;

DUST ABATEMENT;

EID: 2942683134     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2495/ehr030111     Document Type: Conference Paper

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