Natural attenuation of mining pollutants in the transboundary Save River

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 36, Issue 14-15, 2011, Pages 836-841

  Meck, M L ^a,b   Masamba, W R L ^b   Atlhopheng, J ^b   Ringrose, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

Author keywords

Dorowa; Ecological services; Metal attenuation; Save River

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE METHODS; DOROWA; ECOLOGICAL SERVICES; ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GEOCHEMICAL MODELING; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; NATURAL ATTENUATION; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; PHOSPHATE MINING; SAVE RIVER; SEDIMENT SAMPLES; TRANS-BOUNDARY; TRANSBOUNDARY RIVERS; WATER COMPOSITION; WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; COPPER; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; METALS; POLLUTION; REMEDIATION; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TIN; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCES; ZINC;

RIVER POLLUTION;

CATION; CHROMATOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; MINING; PHOSPHATE; POLLUTANT SOURCE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); TRANSBOUNDARY POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

SAVE RIVER [SOUTHERN AFRICA];

EID: 80054058026     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2011.07.048     Document Type: Article

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