Lake-sediment geochemistry reveals 1400 years of evolving extractive metallurgy at Cerro de Pasco, Peruvian Andes

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1019-1022

  Cooke, Colin A ^a   Wolfe, Alexander P ^a   Hobbs, William O ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOMETALLURGY; HG POLLUTION; LAKE SEDIMENTS; METAL EXTRACTIONS; MINING INDUSTRY; ORE MINERALOGY; PB POLLUTION; PEAK VALUES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS; SILVER PRODUCTION; STABLE ISOTOPES; TRACE METAL; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

AIR POLLUTION; ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; EXTRACTION; ISOTOPES; LAKES; LEAD; LEAD SMELTING; MERCURY (METAL); METAL RECOVERY; METALLURGY; METALS; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; MINING; ORE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILVER; SILVER MINES; SULFIDE MINERALS; TRACE ANALYSIS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

LAKE POLLUTION;

ARCHAEOLOGY; DEPOSITION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LEAD ISOTOPE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METALLURGY; ORE DEPOSIT; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SILVER; SMELTING; STABLE ISOTOPE; VOLATILIZATION;

CERRO DE PASCO; PASCO; PERU; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 70450185034     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30276A.1     Document Type: Article

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