Migration of arsenic from old tailings ponds-A case study on the King Edward Mine, Cornwall, UK

Environmental Research

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 28-34

  Beeston, Michael Philip ^a,b   van Elteren, Johannes Teun ^a   Šlejkovec, Zdenka ^c   Glass, Hylke Jan ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Desorption; Kinetics; Sequential extraction; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC;

ADSORPTION; ARSENIC; DESORPTION; ELEMENT MOBILITY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; KINETICS; MINE; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); TAILINGS;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; DESORPTION; EXTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; MINING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ARSENIC; GREAT BRITAIN; SOIL POLLUTANTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CORNWALL [ENGLAND]; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 50149094639     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2008.05.002     Document Type: Article

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