Mercury distribution and speciation in water and fish from abandoned Hg mines in Wanshan, Guizhou province, China

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 5162-5168

  Qiu, Guangle ^a   Feng, Xinbin ^a   Wang, Shaofeng ^a,b   Fu, Xuewu ^a   Shang, Lihai ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Abandoned Hg mines; Distribution; Fish; Mercury; Speciation; Water

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED HG MINES; AQUATIC SYSTEM; DISTRIBUTION; DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS; FISH MUSCLES; FLOW REGIMES; GUIZHOU PROVINCE; HG CONCENTRATIONS; HG MINES; HG MINING; HIGH CONCENTRATION; MEAN RATIO; MERCURY; MERCURY DISTRIBUTION; METHYLMERCURY; MINING AREAS; PARTICULATE FRACTION; PEAK VALUES; SPECIATION; TOTAL MERCURIES; WATER SAMPLES;

ABANDONED MINES; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FISH; MEATS; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; MERCURY MINES; MINES; MINING; RANGE FINDING; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY;

ABANDONED MINE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FISH; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLMERCURY; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY);

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; MINING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SAMPLING;

ANIMALS; CHINA; FISHES; MERCURY; MINING; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUIZHOU; WANSHAN;

EID: 67651004675     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.06.007     Document Type: Article

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