Availability of radium isotopes and heavy metals from scales and tailings of Polish hard coal mining

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 137-150

  Leopold, Karsten ^a   Michalik, Boguslaw ^b   Wiegand, Jens ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b CENTRAL MINING INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

BCR extraction; Coal mining; Gamma spectrometry; Heavy metals; Leaching; Radium; TENORM

Indexed keywords

COAL MINES; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; ISOTOPES; LEACHING; RADIUM; SPECTROMETRY;

BCR-EXTRACTION; GAMMA-SPECTROMETRY; MOBILISATION POTENTIAL;

HEAVY METALS;

HEAVY METAL; MANGANESE; NICKEL; RADIUM; RADIUM 226; RADIUM 228; ZINC;

COAL MINING; EXTRACTION; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETRY; HEAVY METAL; LEACHING; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIUM ISOTOPE; TAILINGS;

ARTICLE; COAL MINING; EXTRACTION; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; LEACHING; SOLUBILITY;

COAL MINING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; METALS, HEAVY; POLAND; RADIUM;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND;

EID: 34147150753     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2007.01.002     Document Type: Article

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