Mercury and gold concentrations of highly polluted environmental samples determined using prompt gamma-ray analysis and instrument neutron activation analysis

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 269, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 717-720

  Osawa, Takahito ^a   Hatsukawa, Yuichi ^a   Appel, Peter W U ^b   Matsue, Hideaki ^a  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Environmental pollution; Instrument neutron activation analysis; Mercury; Prompt gamma ray analysis; Small scale mining

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PROCEDURE; COLD-VAPOR ATOMIC ABSORPTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLE; GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT; GOLD CONCENTRATION; GOLD MINING; INSTRUMENTAL NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; MERCURY; MERCURY ANALYSIS; MERCURY CONCENTRATIONS; PROMPT GAMMA-RAY ANALYSIS; RESOURCE VALUE; SMALL-SCALE MINING;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GAMMA RAYS; GOLD; INSTRUMENTS; MERCURY (METAL); NEUTRONS; POLLUTION; TAILINGS; TAILINGS DISPOSAL; WATER ABSORPTION; WATER VAPOR;

NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 79953224434     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2011.01.129     Document Type: Article

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