Assessment of the effluent quality from a gold mining industry in Ghana

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3799-3811

  Acheampong, Mike A ^a,b   Paksirajan, Kannan ^a,c   Lens, Piet N L ^a  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b Kumasi Polytechnic   (Ghana)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

Author keywords

Cyanide; Gold mine wastewater; Heavy metals; Physico chemical characteristics; Principal component analysis; Tailings dam

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; COPPER; CYANIDE; GOLD; IRON;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BIODEGRADATION; EFFLUENT; GOLD MINE; HEAVY METAL; MINING INDUSTRY; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TAILINGS; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GHANA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MINING; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POLLUTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

ARSENIC; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; COPPER; CYANIDES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; GHANA; GOLD; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; IRON; MINING; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PHENOMENA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

GHANA;

EID: 84878115158     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-012-1312-3     Document Type: Article

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