Antimony and arsenic mobility in a creek draining an antimony mine abandoned 85 years ago (upper Orb basin, France)

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 788-798

  Casiot, C ^a   Ujevic, M ^b   Munoz, M ^c   Seidel, J L ^a   Elbaz Poulichet, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b CROATIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Croatia)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY; ANTIMONY MINES; ARSENIC; BACTERIA; DRAINAGE; IRON OXIDES;

OXIC CONDITIONS; OXIDIZING CONDITIONS; PYRITE GRAINS; REDUCTIVE DISSOLUTION;

ABANDONED MINES;

ABANDONED MINE; ANTIMONY; ARSENIC; DISSOLUTION; IRON OXIDE; MOBILITY; OXIC CONDITIONS; OXIDATION; POLLUTANT SOURCE; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TAILINGS;

BOURNAC CREEK; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; HERAULT; LANGUEDOC-ROUSSILLON; ORB VALLEY; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33947424320     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2006.11.007     Document Type: Article

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