Environmental behaviour of metals from tailings in shallow rivers: Taxco, central Mexico

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

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Armienta, M Aurora ^a   Talavera Mendoza, Oscar ^b   Villasenor, Guadalupe ^a   Espinosa, Erik ^a   Pérez Martínez, Isabel ^a   Cruz, Olivia ^a   Ceniceros, Nora ^a   Aguayo, Alejandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UAG   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Environment; Metals; Mexico; Rivers; Tailings; Taxco

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; GYPSUM; METALS; MINERALOGY; MINING; OXIDATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTS; SOIL POLLUTION; SULFUR;

METAL CONCENTRATION; ROCK WASTES; SULPHIDE OXIDATION;

TAILINGS;

ABANDONED MINE; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; METAL; MINE WASTE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; TAILINGS;

GUERRERO; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; TAXCO;

EID: 3342977752     PISSN: 03717453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/037174504225004510     Document Type: Article

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