Effects of acid-sulfate weathering and cyanide-containing gold tailings on the transport and fate of mercury and other metals in Gossan Creek: Murray Brook mine, New Brunswick, Canada

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1969-1985

  Al, Tom A ^a   Leybourne, Matthew I ^b   Maprani, Antu C ^a   MacQuarrie, Kerry T ^a   Dalziel, John A ^c   Fox, Don ^d   Yeats, Phillip A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^d New Brunswick Department of the Environment   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MERCURY (METAL); PH EFFECTS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CONTAMINANT PLUMES; DISCHARGE AREA; HEADWATER STREAMS; HYDROLOGIC CONTROL;

WEATHERING;

CYANIDE; GOLD; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HEADWATER; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MINE WASTE; PLUME; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SULFATE; TAILINGS; WEATHERING;

CANADA; GOSSAN CREEK; MURRAY BROOK MINE; NEW BRUNSWICK; NORTH AMERICA; UPSALQUITCH RIVER;

EID: 33750302511     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2006.08.013     Document Type: Article

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