Environmental contamination and health hazard of lead and cadmium around Chatian mercury mining deposit in western Hunan Province, China

Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China (English Edition)

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 308-314

  SUN, Hong fei ^a,b   LI, Yong hua ^a   JI, Yan fang ^a   YANG, Lin sheng ^a,b   WANG, Wu yi ^a   LI, Hai rong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

average daily intake dose; cadmium; lead; mercury mine area

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE DAILY INTAKE DOSE; BROWN RICE; CADMIUM LEVELS; DAILY INTAKE; DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION; FIELD SURVEYS; HUNAN PROVINCE , CHINA; LEAD POLLUTION; LOCAL POPULATIONS; MINING WASTE; PADDY SOILS; TOLERABLE DAILY INTAKE;

CADMIUM; DEPOSITS; HEALTH; HEALTH HAZARDS; HEALTH RISKS; MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY MINES; MINING; POTABLE WATER; SOIL POLLUTION; SURFACE WATERS;

LEAD;

EID: 76649135212     PISSN: 10036326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1003-6326(09)60139-4     Document Type: Article

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