Simulation of the chemical fate and bioavailability of liquid elemental mercury drops from gold mining in Amazonian freshwater systems

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 7322-7329

  Dominique, Yannick ^a   Muresan, Bogdan ^b   Duran, Robert ^c   Richard, Sandrine ^d   Boudou, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b IFREMER   (France)

^c EA3525   (France)

^d HYDRECO   (French Guiana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD MINING; INDOOR MICROCOSMS; MERCURY TRANSFERS;

BACTERIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); MERCURY (METAL); OXIDATION;

WATER ANALYSIS;

FRESH WATER; GOLD; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY;

BACTERIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); MERCURY (METAL); OXIDATION; WATER ANALYSIS;

BIOAVAILABILITY; CYPRINID; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; GOLD MINE; LIQUID; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MODELING; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIODIVERSITY; BIOFILM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FOREST; GENOMICS; MICROCOSM; MINING; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT; SIMULATION; SOUTH AMERICA; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; BRAIN; FRESH WATER; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GILLS; GOLD; LIVER; MERCURY; METHYLATION; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; MINING; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; ZEBRAFISH;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 35948966718     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es070268r     Document Type: Article

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