Estimations of historical atmospheric mercury concentrations from mercury refining and present-day soil concentrations of total mercury in Huancavelica, Peru

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 426, Issue , 2012, Pages 146-154

  Robins, Nicholas A ^a,b   Hagan, Nicole ^b   Halabi, Susan ^c   Hsu Kim, Heileen ^d   Gonzales, Ruben Dario Espinoza ^e   Morris, Mark ^b   Woodall, George ^b   Richter, Daniel deB ^c   Heine, Paul ^c   Zhang, Tong ^d   Bacon, Allan ^c   Vandenberg, John ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Duke University   (United States)

^e Environmental Health Council   (Peru)

Author keywords

AERMOD; Huancavelica, peru; Mercury; Silver; Soils

Indexed keywords

ADOBE BRICKS; AERMOD; ATMOSPHERIC CONCENTRATION; ATMOSPHERIC MERCURY; ELEMENTAL MERCURY; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; HEALTH OUTCOMES; HUANCAVELICA, PERU; MERCURY PRODUCTION; MERCURY VAPOR; POTENTIAL RISKS; REFERENCE CONCENTRATION; REFERENCE VALUES; SOIL CONCENTRATIONS; SOIL SAMPLING; SOURCE CHARACTERISTICS; TOTAL MERCURIES;

MERCURY (METAL); REFINING; SILVER; SOILS; VAPORS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

MERCURY;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CINNABAR; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HEALTH RISK; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SAMPLING; SILVER; SOIL CHEMISTRY;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH HAZARD; INHALATION; MERCURIALISM; MINING; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL TOXICOLOGY; PERU; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SMELTER; SOIL ANALYSIS; VAPOR;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MERCURY; MINING; PERU; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

HUANCAVELICA; PERU;

EID: 84860675917     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.03.082     Document Type: Article

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