Grass cover density and metal speciation in profiles of a tailings-pile from a mining zones in Zacatecas, North-Central Mexico

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 395-407

  Figueroa, F ^a   Castro Larragoitia, J ^a   Aragon A ^a   Garcia Meza J V ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE SAN LUIS POTOSÍ   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Mine tailings; Phytoremediation; Semiarid mine zone

Indexed keywords

ACIDIC DISSOLUTION; AMORPHOUS OXIDES; CARBONATE CONTENT; CRYSTALLINE OXIDES; FE OXIDE; GEOCHEMICAL BEHAVIORS; GRASS COVER; IN-PLANTS; ME-XICO; METAL SPECIATION; MINE TAILINGS; MINERALOGICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OXYHYDROXIDES; PH VALUE; PHYTOREMEDIATION; PHYTOSTABILIZATION; SECONDARY PHASIS; SEMI-ARID REGION; SEQUENTIAL EXTRACTION METHOD; WATER USAGE; X RAY DIFFRACTOMETERS;

ARID REGIONS; BIOREMEDIATION; CARBONATES; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DISSOLUTION; GYPSUM; LEAD; METAL RECOVERY; METALS; OXIDATION; OXIDES; PILES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SULFUR; ZINC;

COPPER;

CARBONATE; GEOCHEMICAL SURVEY; GRASS; GYPSUM; IRON OXIDE; METAL; OXIDATION; PH; PHYTOREMEDIATION; REVEGETATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMIARID REGION; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); SULFIDE; TAILINGS; VEGETATION COVER; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; ZACATECAS;

POACEAE; XEROPHYTA;

EID: 77954077320     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-009-0183-5     Document Type: Article

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