Environmental impact from supergene alteration and exploitation of a high sulphidation epithermal type mineralisation (Kirki, NE Greece)

Transactions of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, Section B: Applied Earth Science

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Skarpelis, Nikos ^a   Triantafyllidis, Stavros ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Environmental impact; Epithermal deposit; High sulphidation; Kirki

Indexed keywords

METALLURGY; MINERALS; MINING; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); REMEDIATION; SALTS; TOXIC MATERIALS;

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; MINE WASTES; SUPERGENE ALTERATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

ABANDONED MINE; ACID MINE DRAINAGE; EPITHERMAL DEPOSIT; MINERALIZATION; TAILINGS; WEATHERING;

EASTERN MACEDONIA AND THRACE; EURASIA; EUROPE; EVROS; GREECE; KIRKI; SAMOTHRACE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 3342885969     PISSN: 03717453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/037174504225004493     Document Type: Article

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