Antimony, arsenic and mercury in the aquatic environment and fish in a large antimony mining area in Hunan, China

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 3403-3410

  Fu, Zhiyou ^a,b   Wu, Fengchang ^c   Amarasiriwardena, Dulasiri ^d   Mo, Changli ^a,b   Liu, Bijun ^a,b   Zhu, Jing ^a,b   Deng, Qiujing ^a,b   Liao, Haiqing ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c CHINESE RESEARCH ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^d HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antimony (Sb); Arsenic (As); Fish; Mercury (Hg); Pollution; Sb mining smelting area; Water

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; DRINKING WATER; DRY WEIGHT; MERCURY (HG); MINING AREAS; XIKUANGSHAN;

ANTIMONY; ARSENIC; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FISH; MERCURY (METAL);

POTABLE WATER;

ANTIMONY; ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER; MERCURY; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANTIMONY; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARSENIC; BIOACCUMULATION; CARCINOGEN; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DRINKING WATER; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENRICHMENT; FISH; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MINING; SMELTING; WATER POLLUTION;

ALGA; ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CHINA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTAMINATED FISH; CONTROLLED STUDY; GILL; LIVER; MINING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; FISH; METABOLISM; PH; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WATER POLLUTANT; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIMONY; ARSENIC; CHINA; FISHES; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MERCURY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MINING; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

CHINA; HUNAN; XIKUANGSHAN;

ALGAE;

EID: 77953712784     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.04.031     Document Type: Article

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