Geophysical characterizing of tailings impoundment - A case from the closed Hammaslahti Cu-Zn mine, eastern Finland

Special Paper of the Geological Survey of Finland

Volumn , Issue 38, 2005, Pages 49-60

  Vanhala, Heikki ^a   Räisänen, Marja Liisa ^a   Suppala, Ilkka ^a   Huotari, Taija ^a   Valjus, Tuire ^a   Lehtimäki, Jukka ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Abandoned mines; Chemical composition; Environmental geology; Finland; Geophysical methods; Hammaslahti; Sediments; Tailings; Tailings ponds

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; TAILINGS DAM;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 32944470544     PISSN: 07828535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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