Concentration, distribution, and translocation of mercury and methylmercury in mine-waste, sediment, soil, water, and fish collected near the Abbadia San Salvatore mercury mine, Monte Amiata district, Italy

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 414, Issue , 2012, Pages 318-327

  Rimondi, Valentina ^a   Gray, John E ^b   Costagliola, Pilario ^a   Vaselli, Orlando ^a   Lattanzi, Pierfranco ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fish; Mercury; Methylmercury; Mining; Sediment; Water

Indexed keywords

EFFECT CONCENTRATION; FISH MUSCLES; FRESHWATER FISHES; HARMFUL EFFECTS; HG CONCENTRATIONS; HUMAN FOOD CHAIN; HUMAN HEALTH; INDUSTRIAL SOILS; LAKE SEDIMENTS; METHYLMERCURY; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SOUTHERN TUSCANY; STREAM WATER; WATER SAMPLES; WET WEIGHT;

ALKYLATION; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ECOSYSTEMS; FISH; LAKES; MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY COMPOUNDS; MERCURY MINES; METHYLATION; MINING; MUSCLE; POTABLE WATER; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SOILS; WATER;

SOIL POLLUTION;

DRINKING WATER; LAKE WATER; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY; ORGANIC CARBON; RUNOFF; WATER;

BIOAVAILABILITY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLMERCURY; MINE WASTE; SEDIMENT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EXPOSURE; FRESHWATER FISH; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; ITALY; LAKE; MERCURY MINE; METHYLATION; MINE WASTE CALCINE; MINING; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SOIL; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; WASTE; WASTE WATER; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER SAMPLING;

ANIMALS; CARBON; CYPRINIDAE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; ITALY; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; MINING; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RIVERS; SOIL; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; WASTE PRODUCTS;

ITALY; MOUNT AMIATA; SIENA [TUSCANY]; TUSCANY;

EID: 84855536440     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.10.065     Document Type: Article

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