Strategies for reducing the environmental impact of reprocessing mercury-contaminated tailings in the artisanal and small-scale gold mining sector: Insights from Tapajos River Basin, Brazil

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 18, Issue 16-17, 2010, Pages 1757-1766

  Sousa, Rodolfo N ^a   Veiga, Marcello M ^a   Klein, Bern ^a   Telmer, Kevin ^b   Gunson, Aaron J ^a   Bernaudat, Ludovic ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c UNITED NATIONS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION   (Austria)

Author keywords

Artisanal mining; Cyanidation; Environmental education; Gravity concentration; Mercury contamination

Indexed keywords

ARTISANAL MINING; CYANIDATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION; GRAVITY CONCENTRATION; MERCURY CONTAMINATION;

ACTIVATED CARBON; BALL MILLS; CONTAMINATION; CYANIDES; GOLD; GOLD MINES; LEACHING; MERCURY (METAL); METALS; MINERS; PILOT PLANTS;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

EID: 77956490543     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2010.06.016     Document Type: Article

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