Assessment of physicochemical and heavy metals from waste dumps of magnesite and bauxite mines

Electronic Journal of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3076-3082

  Mathiyazhagan, Narayanan ^a   Natarajan, Devarajan ^a  

^a PERIYAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Electric conductivity; Metals; Mining sites; Physicochemical

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856302866     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15794377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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