Toxicity and potential risk assessment of a river polluted by acid mine drainage in the Iberian Pyrite Belt (SW Spain)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 4763-4771

  Sarmiento, Aguasanta M ^a,b   DelValls, Angel ^a   Nieto, José Miguel ^b   Salamanca, María José ^a   Caraballo, Manuel A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÁDIZ   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Environmental risk; Heavy metals; Polluted river; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; ELEVATED CONCENTRATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS; IBERIAN PENINSULA; IBERIAN PYRITE BELT; LOW WATER; METAL CONCENTRATIONS; METAL CONTAMINATION; MICROTOX; MINING AREAS; NATURAL STREAMS; POLLUTED RIVERS; POTENTIAL RISKS; SEDIMENTS AND WATERS; SULFIDE DEPOSIT; SW SPAIN; TOXIC ELEMENTS;

ABANDONED MINES; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CHROMIUM; DRAINAGE; HEAVY METALS; POLLUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TOXICITY; ZINC;

RIVER POLLUTION;

ALUMINUM; ARSENIC; BARIUM; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; IRON; LEAD; MANGANESE; NICKEL; SULFATE; ZINC;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; HEAVY METAL; PH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER POLLUTION; STREAMWATER; TOXIC MATERIAL; TOXICITY; TOXICITY TEST; WEATHERING;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTOXICITY; PH; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT; SPAIN; STREAM (RIVER); WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION;

GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; METALS, HEAVY; MINING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVERS; SPAIN; TOXICITY TESTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

IBERIAN PYRITE BELT;

EID: 80053334583     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.07.043     Document Type: Article

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