Factors affecting methylmercury distribution in surficial, acidic, base-metal mine tailings

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 392, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 242-251

  Winch, S ^a   Praharaj, T ^a   Fortin, D ^a   Lean, D R S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mercury; Methylmercury; Mine tailings; Sulfate reducing bacteria

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; MERCURY (METAL); MINES;

METHYLMERCURY; MINE TAILINGS; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIA;

TOXIC MATERIALS;

BACTERIAL DNA; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; METAL; METHYLMERCURY; SULFATE; SURFACE WATER;

BIOACCUMULATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DNA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOOD WEB; METHYLMERCURY; OXIDATION; POREWATER; SURFACE WATER; TAILINGS; TOXIC SUBSTANCE;

ACIDITY; ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; CANADA; CELL COUNT; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; MINE TAILINGS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM; WATER QUALITY;

CARBON; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FRESH WATER; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MERCURY; METALLURGY; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; MINING; ONTARIO; POROSITY; SULFATES; SULFUR-REDUCING BACTERIA;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 38749103499     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.12.008     Document Type: Article

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