Environmental impact of mining activities on the surface water quality in Tibet: Gyama valley

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 4177-4184

  Huang, Xiang ^a,b   Sillanpää, Mika ^a,c   Gjessing, Egil T ^d   Peräniemi, Sirpa ^a   Vogt, Rolf D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b TIBET UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Acid mine drainage; Environmental Risk Index (IER); Gyama valley; Heavy metal pollution; Mining in Tibet; Surface water quality

Indexed keywords

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; CHEMICAL QUALITY; COPPER CONTAMINATION; ELEVATED CONCENTRATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK INDICES; GYAMA VALLEY; HEAVY METAL POLLUTION; HIGH-CONTENT; INDUSTRIAL SCALE; LOCAL ENVIRONMENTS; METAL MINING; MINING ACTIVITIES; POTENTIAL RISKS; POTENTIAL THREATS; RISK LEVELS; SHORT DISTANCES; SOURCE AREA; STREAM SEDIMENTS; STREAM WATER; STREAMBEDS; WATER USERS;

ACIDS; DISSOLUTION; DRAINAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAVY WATER; HYDRAULICS; LANDFORMS; LEAD; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MANGANESE REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); METALS; MINING; RIVERS; SORPTION; SURFACES; WATER CONTENT; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL; WATER QUALITY; ZINC;

RIVER POLLUTION;

ALUMINUM; COPPER; FRESH WATER; IRON; LEAD; MANGANESE; SURFACE WATER; ZINC;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAVY METAL; MINING; RISK ASSESSMENT; STREAMWATER; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; CHINA; DILUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MINING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT; STREAM (RIVER); WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING;

ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; METALS, HEAVY; MINING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONS; TIBET; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CHINA; LHASA RIVER; XIZANG;

EID: 77954624244     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.05.015     Document Type: Article

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