Surface water monitoring in the mercury mining district of Asturias (Spain)

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 176, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 323-332

  Loredo, Jorge ^a   Petit Domínguez, María Dolores ^b   Ordóñez, Almudena ^a   Galán, María Pilar ^c   Fernández Martínez, Rodolfo ^c   Alvarez, Rodrigo ^a   Rucandio, María Isabel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c Unidad de Espectroscopía   (Spain)

Author keywords

Abandoned mining; Arsenic; Mercury; Monitoring; Surface water

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED MINING; ACIDIC CONDITIONS; ANALYTICAL DATA; AS CONTENT; CHARACTERISATION; CORRECTIVE MEASURES; HG MINES; HYDROLOGICAL MODELLING; IN-SITU; LEACHATES; MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS; MERCURY; MERCURY MONITORING; MINE DRAINAGE; MINE SITE; MINING DISTRICT; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; NW SPAIN; PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; REDOX POTENTIALS; RIVER CATCHMENT; RIVER TRIBUTARIES; SAMPLING POINTS; SAMPLING STATIONS; SPECIFIC CONDUCTANCE; WATER FLOWS;

ABANDONED MINES; ARSENIC; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CATCHMENTS; DISSOLUTION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; MINING; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; RIVERS; TRACE ELEMENTS; TURBIDITY;

MERCURY (METAL);

ARSENIC; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; MERCURY; PYRITE; SURFACE WATER; TRACE ELEMENT;

ABANDONED MINE; ARSENIC; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTION MONITORING; SPATIAL VARIATION; SURFACE WATER; WATER POLLUTION;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ARTICLE; CATCHMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDROLOGY; LEACHING; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PH; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; SALINITY; SPAIN; TURBIDITY; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SAMPLING; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MERCURY; MINING; RIVERS; SPAIN; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ASTURIAS; CAUDAL RIVER; SPAIN;

EID: 74449090799     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2009.11.031     Document Type: Article

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