Metal contamination of the environment by placer and primary gold mining in the Adola region of southern Ethiopia

Environmental Geology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 339-352

  Getaneh, Worash ^a   Alemayehu, Tamiru ^a  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Adola; Ethiopia; Metals; Mining; Sediment

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PH EFFECTS; POTABLE WATER; SEDIMENTS;

ADOLA; GEOACCUMULATION INDEXES; METAL CONTAMINATION; WATER PARAMETERS;

GOLD MINES;

BIOACCUMULATION; GOLD MINE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; METAL; PLANT; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION;

ADOLA; AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; ETHIOPIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33745094754     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-006-0213-5     Document Type: Article

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