Binding of mercury in soils and attic dust in the Idrija mercury mine area (Slovenia)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 369, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 150-162

  Gosar, Mateja ^a   Šajn, Robert ^a   Biester, Harald ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SLOVENIA   (Slovenia)

^b Institute of Environmental Geochemistry   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attic dust; Environmental risk; Idrija mercury mine; Mercury mining; Mercury speciation; Slovenia; Soil; Thermo desorption technique

Indexed keywords

ATTIC DUST; CINNABAR; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; MERCURY SPECIATION; THERMODESORPTION TECHNIQUE;

AEROSOLS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DESORPTION; DUST; MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY MINES; SOILS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

MERCURY; MERCURY DERIVATIVE; MERCURY SULFIDE; ORGANIC MATTER;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; BIOAVAILABILITY; CINNABAR; DUST; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MINE; ORGANIC MATTER; POLLUTANT SOURCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL POLLUTION;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; DESORPTION; METAL BINDING; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING; SLOVENIA; SMELTER; SOIL;

DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HOUSING; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MERCURY; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; MINING; SLOVENIA; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IDRIJA; IDRIJCA RIVER; SLOVENIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33747882935     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2006.05.006     Document Type: Article

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