A preliminary assessment of the concentrations of rare earth elements in an acidic fresh groundwater (south-eastern Nigeria)

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

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Edet, Aniekan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Acid waters; Coastal plain aquifer; Nigeria; Rare earth elements

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; COASTAL ZONES; COATINGS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); GROUNDWATER; METALLURGY; MINING; SAND;

ACIDIC WATER; INORGANIC PARTICULATES; SURFACE COATING;

RARE EARTH ELEMENTS;

ACID WATER; COASTAL AQUIFER; HYDROCHEMISTRY; RARE EARTH ELEMENT;

AFRICA; NIGERIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 3342999995     PISSN: 03717453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/037174504225004475     Document Type: Article

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