Fate of process solution cyanide and nitrate at three nevada gold mines inferred from stable carbon and nitrogen isotope measurements

Transactions of the Institutions of Mining and Metallurgy, Section C: Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy

Volumn 109, Issue MAY./AUG., 2000, Pages

  Johnson, C A ^a   Grimes, D J ^a   Rye, R O ^a  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

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