Use of isotope ratios to assess sources of Pb and Zn dispersed in the environment during mining and ore processing within the Orlovka-Spokoinoe mining site (Russia)

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 563-579

  Dolgopolova, A ^a   Weiss, D J ^a,b   Seltmann, R ^a   Kober, B ^c   Mason, T F D ^b   Coles, B ^a,b   Stanley, C J ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Inst of Environmental Geochemistry   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; CONTAMINATION; DISPERSIONS; ISOTOPES; LEAD; MINING; ORE TREATMENT; ZINC;

BIOLOGIC SAMPLES; ISOTOPE RATIOS; LICHENS; MINING SITES;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS);

ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; LEAD; MINING; ZINC;

EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 33645285013     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2005.12.014     Document Type: Article

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