Impact of mercury emissions from historic gold and silver mining: Global modeling

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2012-2017

  Strode, Sarah ^a   Jaeglé, Lyatt ^a   Selin, Noelle E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deposition; Gold rush; Mercury; Mining; North America; Sediment cores

Indexed keywords

19TH CENTURIES; A-PRIORI ESTIMATES; ATMOSPHERIC MERCURIES; GLOBAL MODELING; GLOBAL MODELS; GOLD AND SILVERS; GOLD RUSH; LAKE-SEDIMENT RECORDS; MERCURY; MERCURY DEPOSITIONS; MERCURY EMISSIONS; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH AMERICANS; SEDIMENT CORES;

AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; DEPOSITION; EXTRACTION; GOLD; GOLD MINES; MERCURY (METAL); MINING; PLATINUM METALS; PRECIOUS METALS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILVER; SILVER MINES; SMELTING;

GOLD DEPOSITS;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GOLD MINE; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MINING INDUSTRY; NINETEENTH CENTURY; POLLUTION EFFECT; SEDIMENT CORE; SILVER;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 61649098126     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.01.006     Document Type: Article

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