Managing cyanide: Health, safety and risk management practices at Turkey's Ovacik gold-silver mine

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 727-735

  Akcil, Ata ^a  

^a SULEYMAN DEMIREL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cyanidation; Environmental; Gold; Health; Mining; Risk management; Safety

Indexed keywords

CYANIDES; RISK MANAGEMENT; SODIUM COMPOUNDS;

CYANIDATION; SODIUM CYANIDE (NACN);

SILVER GOLD MINES;

EID: 33644601298     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2004.11.006     Document Type: Article

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