Preferential fractionation of trace metals-metalloids into PM10 resuspended from contaminated gold mine tailings at Rodalquilar, Spain

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 179, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 93-105

  Moreno, Teresa ^a   Oldroyd, Anthony ^b   McDonald, Iain ^b   Gibbons, Wes ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arsenic antimony mine pollution; Contaminated aeolian dust; PM10

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; EXTRACTION; FRACTIONATION; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); TAILINGS;

ARSENIC ANTIMONY MINE POLLUTION; CONTAMINATED AEOLIAN DUST;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ANTIMONY; ARSENIC; BISMUTH; CYANIDE; GOLD; TELLURIUM; TRACE METAL; ZINC;

CONTAMINATION; EXTRACTION; FRACTIONATION; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); TAILINGS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

EOLIAN DEPOSIT; FRACTIONATION; GOLD MINE; ORE DEPOSIT; PARTICULATE MATTER; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; TAILINGS; TRACE METAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DUST; EXTRACTION; FRACTIONATION; HEALTH HAZARD; MINING; PARTICULATE MATTER; SPAIN; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION;

ALMERIA [ANDALUCIA]; ANDALUCIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; RODALQUILAR; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 33846845058     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-006-9216-9     Document Type: Article

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