Arsenic species in weathering mine tailings and biogenic solids at the Lava Cap Mine Superfund Site, Nevada City, CA

Geochemical Transactions

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Foster, Andrea L ^a   Ashley, Roger P ^a   Rytuba, James J ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ARSENIC; BIOGENIC EMISSION; CARCINOGEN; DATA SET; DEPOSITION; DISSOLUTION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; HEALTH RISK; IRON; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MINE WASTE; TAILINGS; WEATHERING; WETTING-DRYING CYCLE;

CALIFORNIA; NEVADA COUNTY [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78751643810     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14674866     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1467-4866-12-1     Document Type: Article

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