Mineralogical and geochemical techniques to investigate the relationships between minerals and contaminants in supergenic environments: An update review

Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Abhandlungen

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-9

  Frau, Franco ^a   Marescotti, Pietro ^b  

^a Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Contaminants; Environment; Mechanistic models; Minerals; Mining; Multi scale and multidisciplinary studies; Synchrotron based techniques

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; GEOCHEMISTRY; LABORATORY METHOD; MINERALOGY; MINING; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT; SUPERGENE PROCESS;

EID: 82055186387     PISSN: 00777757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0077-7757/2011/0189     Document Type: Conference Paper

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