Environmental characterization and geochemistry of Kirki, Thrace, NE Greece, abandoned flotation tailing dumps

Environmental Forensics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 351-359

  Triantafyllidis, Stavros ^a   Skarpelis, Nikolaos ^b   Komnitsas, Kostas ^c  

^a SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acid mine drainage; Environmental characterization; Metal geochemistry; Sulfide tailings

Indexed keywords

EID: 37549040247     PISSN: 15275922     EISSN: 15275930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15275920701729688     Document Type: Article

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