Inventory and geochemical host phases of natural radionuclides in tin mining materials from Nigeria

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 926-930

  Leopold, K ^a   Arogunjo, A M ^b   Giussani, A ^a   Hollriegl V ^a   Oeh, U ^a   Veronese, I ^c   Gerstmann, U C ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Nigeria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bcr extraction procedure; Gamma spectrometry; Natural radionuclides; Nigeria; TENORM; Tin mining

Indexed keywords

BCR EXTRACTION PROCEDURE; GAMMA-SPECTROMETRY; NATURAL RADIONUCLIDES; NIGERIA; TENORM; TIN MINING;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIOACTIVITY; MINING; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY; RADIUM; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY; TIN; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS;

OPEN PIT MINING;

RADIOISOTOPE; TIN;

ARTICLE; EXTRACTION; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; MINING; NIGERIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOMETRY;

MINING; NIGERIA; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RADIOISOTOPES; RADON; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; TIN;

EID: 63249088443     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2009.01.059     Document Type: Article

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