Tracer Test in a Settling Pond: The Passive Mine Water Treatment Plant of the 1 B Mine Pool, Nova Scotia, Canada

Mine Water and the Environment

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 105-112

  Wolkersdorfer, Christian ^a  

^a CAPE BRETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cape Breton Island; Mine water; Rhodamine B; Settling pond; Sodium fluorescein; Tracer test; Uranine; Water treatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957548162     PISSN: 10259112     EISSN: 16161068     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10230-011-0147-3     Document Type: Article

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