Surface Water Contamination by Uranium Mining/Milling Activities in Northern Guangdong Province, China

Clean - Soil, Air, Water

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1357-1363

  Wang, Jin ^a   Liu, Juan ^a,b   Li, Hongchun ^b   Song, Gang ^a   Chen, Yongheng ^a   Xiao, Tangfu ^c   Qi, Jianying ^d   Zhu, Li ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^d SOUTH CHINA INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Heavy metal; Radionuclide; Water pollution

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DRINKING WATER; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; HEAVY METAL; RADIONUCLIDE; SURFACE WATER; THORIUM; URANIUM; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER POLLUTION;

CHINA; GUANGDONG;

EID: 84872411504     PISSN: 18630650     EISSN: 18630669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clen.201100512     Document Type: Article

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